Pennsylvania · Public charity
Mario Lemieux Foundation
To fund promising patient care and medical research initiatives in the areas of hodgkin's disease, pediatric oncology, cardiovascular medicine, as well as support the development and implementation of hospital playrooms.
- $469k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $414k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $83,280
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Mario Lemieux Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $414k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $2.9M | 46% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $641k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $5.0M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $779k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $347k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $5.6M | 40% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $407k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $5,727,067 | 9 | 7% |
| University of Pittsburgh and Upmc Medical and Health Sciences Foundation | $4,908,344 | 7 | 38% |
| Highmark Health Group | $2,360,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Highmark Health | $1,088,964 | 7 | n/a |
| The Children's Home of Pittsburgh | $502,923 | 8 | 1% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $160,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Upmc Pinnacle | $152,875 | 1 | 0% |
| The Watson Institute | $150,004 | 2 | 1% |
| Naval Hospital Camp Pendelton | $142,084 | 1 | n/a |
| Upmc | $141,584 | 4 | n/a |
Show all 39 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mario Lemieux Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35 · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Pirates Charities · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · American Cancer Society Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Mario Lemieux Foundation
- How much does Mario Lemieux Foundation give?
- Mario Lemieux Foundation reported 13 itemized grants totaling $413,552, out of $468,759 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mario Lemieux Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (95%), Human Services (3%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
- Who are Mario Lemieux Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation ($5.7M), University of Pittsburgh and Upmc Medical and Health Sciences Foundation ($4.9M), Highmark Health Group ($2.4M).
- Does Mario Lemieux Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mario Lemieux Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Upmc Group.
- Where is Mario Lemieux Foundation based?
- Mario Lemieux Foundation is based in PA.
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