· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $404k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGHMARK HEALTH | $2,277,948 |
| UPMC PINNACLE | $152,875 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $102,571 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH | $75,000 |
| UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $73,272 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $45,562 |
| PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION | $33,500 |
| CANCER BRIDGES | $32,629 |
| VALLEY MEDICAL FACILITIES INC | $19,780 |
| UPMC PASSAVANT | $14,658 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM | $11,143 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH AND LEMIEUX FAMILY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $8,997 |
| HIGHMARK HEALTH | $7,796 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +135%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +34% · 38% of their budget
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH7× · 2017–2024 · $448k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- NHNAVAL HOSPITAL CAMP PENDELTONone grant, 2021 · $142k
- UUPMCone grant, 2017 · $89k
- MRMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)
Healthcare, education, and research
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
Pinnacle health medical services is a charitable organization dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all the people of central pennsylvania by providing primary, clinic, family and specialty physician…
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Clarion hospital, an affiliate of independence health system, exists to provide a trusted delivery of care which makes a positive impact on the lives of every individual we touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Valley Health System Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clark Gillies Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highmark Health Group ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds UPMC PINNACLE ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds St Clair Health Corporation ↗
- Who funds STANLEY M MARKS BLOOD CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds Lending Hearts ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MEDICAL FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Wheeling Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds Highmark Health ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CLARK GILLIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds PASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZIP WITH US INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mario Lemieux Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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