· Public charity
McAuley Ministries
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $3.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $917k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES | $666,667 |
| CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB | $250,000 |
| CENTER THAT CARES | $204,000 |
| UJAMAA COLLECTIVE | $153,000 |
| MACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $150,400 |
| A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGHS COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION | $142,400 |
| MERCY LIFE CENTER CORPORATION | $135,918 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH | $127,500 |
| AMANI CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $117,300 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH | $117,300 |
| SHEPHERD'S HEART FELLOWSHIP | $117,300 |
| ACH CLEAR PATHWAYS | $107,000 |
| EBENEZER OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $102,000 |
| SCHENLEY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM | $102,000 |
| GROUNDED STRATEGIES | $102,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of McAuley Ministries’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
91 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- CUCARLOW UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +65%
- MLMERCY LIFE CENTER CORPORATION2× · 2020–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +8%
- NANEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +111%
Funded once
- CTCATHERINE TERRACE LLCone grant, 2022 · $226k
- FHFOOD HELPERSone grant, 2023 · $130k · revenue -7%
- PGPITTSBURGH GREEN INNOVATORS INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -67%
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.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
The mission of the pittsburgh food policy council is to build a food system that benefits our communities, economy, and environment in ways that are just, equitable and sustainable. driven by community-led solutions, we bring together over…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is The Early Excellence Project. 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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 142 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 CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERCY LIFE CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER THAT CARES ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SCHENLEY HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ACH Clear Pathways ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB ↗
- Who funds UPTOWN PARTNERS OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EARLY EXCELLENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP ↗
- Who funds WOMANSPACE EAST INC ↗
- Who funds Hug Me Tight Childlife Centers Inc ↗
- Who funds Small Seeds Development Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Housing Services Inc ↗
- Who funds GROUNDED STRATEGIES ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds EBENEZER OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Amani Christian Comm Dev Corp ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INC ↗
- Who funds VISION ENTERPRISES JASON PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VENTURE OUTDOORS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY 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 Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Upmc Group · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eden Hall Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Poise Foundation
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 McAuley Ministries 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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