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McElhattan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
105
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$16MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.4MPhilanthropy$4.8MYouth Development$3.0MHealth$2.6MHuman Services$2.5MArts & Culture$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k51 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$249M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL$1,000,000
CARLOW UNIVERSITY$438,000
CLARION COUNTY ECONCOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$408,000
UNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY$292,700
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA$250,000
ALLEGHENY PARTNERS FOR OUT-OF-SCHOOL TIME$165,000
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$160,000
NORTHWEST COMMISSION$157,300
RAND CORPORATION$150,000
GROW PITTSBURGH$150,000
TEACH PLUS$150,000
GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$150,000
OIL REGION ALLIANCE OF BUSINESS$145,000
PENNSYLVANIA EDUCATOR DIVERSITY CONSORTIUM$125,000
THE PASSHE FOUNDATION$115,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENNSYLVANIA COALITION FOR ORAL HEALTH: $50k → 10%YMCA OF FRANKLIN & GROVE CITY: $300k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $40k → 16%VALLEY POINTS FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 10%YMCA OF FRANKLIN & GROVE CITY: $25k → 13%SECOND HARVEST: $20k → 15%THE UNITED SOMALI BANTU OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%YOUTH ALTERNATIVES INC: $40k → 14%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $40k → 11%SCENIC RIVERS YMCA: $25k → 14%YOUTH ALTERNATIVE INC: $20k → 14%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $25k → 11%YMCA OF FRANKLIN & GROVE CITY: $46k → 14%YMCA OF FRANKLIN & GROVE CITY: $25k → 14%MAPLE UNIFIED STUDENT ACADEMY: $35k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $50k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $50k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $50k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $50k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $35k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $26k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%BAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION: $53k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $63k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $26k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER: $25k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $25k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $50k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $25k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 11%YMCA: $40k → 11%REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN WOMENS ASSOCIATION: $50k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $50k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $50k → 11%PA WOMEN WORK: $23k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $40k → 11%THE CENTER THAT CARES: $25k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $50k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $35k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $25k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 115 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
136

Total granted

$32M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+10%

Still filing today

78%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +26%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +22%
  • TP
    THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • NS
    NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $600k
  • N
    NSC
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • KA
    KNOX AREA VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Point Park University

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…

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2
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
3
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
4
The Regional Opportunity Center D/B/a Vibrant Pittsburgh

Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.

Arts & Culture
5
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
6
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…

Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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8
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Pittsburgh Technology Council

Membership organization formed to help tech companies succeed through a proven platform of business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. companies at all growth stages use the pittsburgh technology…

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10
Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education
11
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
12
Pittsburgh Works Together Inc

Educate and advocate on behalf of the construction, energy, and manufacturing industries and the resulting economic and job growth in pennsylvania.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Knox Volunteer Fire Company. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFraternal Benefit Organizat…Public LibrariesChild & Family Welfare Serv…Healthcare Delivery and Sup…Affordable Housing ProvidersCommunity Development Organ…Women's Health & Support Se…Community Arts EducationK-12 Schools and Early Educ…Professional & Industry Ass…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%5%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr17%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%3%<5yr12%15%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr17%33%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/194
the rest of the field
8%
776/10,164

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.

04the grantee network

186 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. 186 of the 290 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
181/186
Grantees still filing
111/186
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,500,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER PITTSBURGHCCAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,015,000 · OtherCCAC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $725,000 · Other+116 more — $15,074,035 · Other+116 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $3,334,998 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHThe George Washington University — $2,198,122 · EducationThe George Washington Univ…CHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $669,253 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITYCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $663,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $400,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION — $366,668 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $333,334 · Education+20 more — $1,897,628 · Education+20 moreNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL — $5,000,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL SAFE…+2 more — $140,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,560,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSB…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED…BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION — $546,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGE BUI…MELTING POT MINISTRIES — $200,000 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $196,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $150,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $145,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — $395,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $258,500 · Human ServicesPediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $235,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesLOCALLY GROWN — $140,000 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesRANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER — $110,000 · Human ServicesYouth Alternatives INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION — $75,000 · Human ServicesBAPTIST HOMES FOUNDATION — $70,500 · Human Services+9 more — $393,033 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $550,000 · Arts & CultureALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $125,000 · Arts & CultureINDUSTRIAL ARTS WORKSHOP INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureAssemble Inc — $101,000 · Arts & CultureRIVERS OF STEEL HERITAGE CORPORATION — $76,200 · Arts & CultureBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc — $72,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $195,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentACH Clear Pathways — $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHPLACES — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DRAGON'S DEN — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE — $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBrookline Teen Outreach — $116,000 · Youth DevelopmentGwens Girls Inc — $65,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $107,500 · Youth Development
Other$18,314,035Education$9,863,003Public Safety & Disaster$5,140,000Philanthropy$4,047,000Human Services$2,027,533Arts & Culture$1,364,200Youth Development$1,293,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL — $5,000,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $3,334,998 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $2,198,122 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,560,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $1,250,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $725,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY — $669,253 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $663,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $550,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetBRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION — $546,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VENANGO COUNTY AND TITUSVILLE REGION — $512,300 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $400,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KEYSTONE CROSSROADS — $395,500 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA EDUCATOR DIVERSITY CONSORTIUM INC — $375,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR REFUGEE YOUTH SUPPORT AND EDUCATION — $366,668 over 6y, 12% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $333,334 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $293,073 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH — $275,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $258,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $250,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CLARION COUNTY — $235,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetPediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $235,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT — $229,392 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AND CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF VENANGO COUNTY — $225,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetACH Clear Pathways — $210,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMELTING POT MINISTRIES — $200,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetFAME — $200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $196,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH — $195,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project — $180,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetAngels Place Inc — $151,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetYOUTHPLACES — $150,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ELLIS SCHOOL — $150,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $150,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania — $150,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC — $150,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $150,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetTHE DRAGON'S DEN — $140,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetLOCALLY GROWN — $140,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $135,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSUGAR VALLEY LODGE INC — $130,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY — $125,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCoalition To Transform Advanced Car — $125,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetA SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $125,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetKNOX PUBLIC LIBRARY — $121,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $120,528 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Grable FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…Eden Hall FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…The Buhl FoundationPoise FoundationEqt FoundationOpportunity Foundation
The Grable FoundationPA154.1× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eden Hall Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Poise Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Opportunity 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 McElhattan 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
74report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to McElhattan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McElhattan 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 290 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home