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· 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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$83k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$15MHuman Services$501kRecreation & Sports$168kPhilanthropy$83kScience & Tech$50k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $413,552, the rows itemized in this filing. The $468,759 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,207 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $279k
$17,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$83,280
HIGHMARK HEALTH$82,202
UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER$59,532
THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH AND LEMIEUX FAMILY CENTER$54,444
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$42,377
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION$20,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$17,600
UPMC PASSAVANT$16,105
UPMC WASHINGTON$12,551
STANLEY M MARKS BLOOD CANCER RESEARCH FUND$7,500
SMALL TOWN HOPE INC$6,961
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION$6,000
LENDING HEARTS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WATSON INSITITUTE: $132k → 11%SMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $7k → 16%CLARK GILLIES FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%WATSON INSTITUTE: $19k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 18 repeat orgs$827k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$16M
$807k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+2%

Still filing today

72%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +135%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +34% · 38% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • UP
    UPMC PINNACLE
    one grant, 2024 · $153k · revenue 0%
  • NH
    NAVAL HOSPITAL CAMP PENDELTON
    one grant, 2021 · $142k
  • U
    UPMC
    one grant, 2017 · $89k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

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.

Health
2
Upmc

Support of subsidiary tax-exempt healthcare, education and research organizations (see schedule o)

Health
3
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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4
Upmc Carlisle

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.

Health
5
Pinnacle Health Medical Services

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…

Health
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
7
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

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.

Health
8
Lehigh Valley Hospital

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.

Health
9
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
10
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
12
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Valley Health System Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
15/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $5,727,067 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATIONTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $502,923 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH+15 more: $635,604 · Health+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $4,908,344 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC …+3 more: $124,566 · PhilanthropyHighmark Health Group: $2,360,150 · OtherHighmark Health GroupHIGHMARK HEALTH: $1,088,964 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTHCarnegie Mellon University: $160,000 · Other+13 more: $763,011 · Other+13 moreTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $150,004 · Human ServicesCLARK GILLIES FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Human ServicesSMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $6,961 · Human Services
Health$6,865,594Philanthropy$5,032,910Other$4,372,125Human Services$165,965

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $5,727,067 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $4,908,344 over 7y, 38% of budgetHighmark Health Group: $2,360,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $502,923 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE: $152,875 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $150,004 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $135,083 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $94,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION: $79,636 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $56,629 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetSTANLEY M MARKS BLOOD CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $44,500 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetLending Hearts: $25,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $22,079 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetVALLEY MEDICAL FACILITIES INC: $19,780 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheeling Hospital Inc: $15,649 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighmark Health: $14,019 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM: $11,143 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK GILLIES FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $8,997 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $8,487 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMALL TOWN HOPE INC: $6,961 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetZIP WITH US INC: $6,066 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Upmc GroupSnee-Reinhardt Charit…Staunton Farm Foundat…M L Mason Mem Fund 12…Pittsburgh Penguins F…Pirates CharitiesCommunity Foundation …American Cancer Socie…The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA28.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mario Lemieux Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mario Lemieux Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mario Lemieux Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mario Lemieux Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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