· Private foundation
Mark B & Jean Higgins Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Valley School of Ligonier | $17,000 |
| The Gettysburg Foundation | $10,000 |
| Grove City College | $10,000 |
| The Kiski School | $10,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $4,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $4,000 |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $1,500 |
| St Judes Childrens Hospital | $1,500 |
| The Family Restored | $1,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Pittsburgh | $1,000 |
| Christ Church Preschool | $1,000 |
| Childrens Tumor Foundation | $1,000 |
| Camp Freedom | $1,000 |
| Emma Munson Foundation Inc | $1,000 |
| Holy Trinity Church | $900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VSVALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +76%
- GFGETTYSBURG FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +95%
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +48%
Funded once
SMILE TRAIN INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +24%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $1k
- PFPITTSBURGH FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $500
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.
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.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE KISKI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY RESTORED ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS CARES INC 824521455 ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH FIRE FIGHTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark B & Jean Higgins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark B & Jean Higgins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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