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McGough Frazier Family Foundation at a glance

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McGough Frazier Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH IN$20,000
LITERACY PITTSBURGH$15,000
RIVERLIFE$12,000
SHADY SIDE ACADEMY$10,000
THE EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA$10,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC$5,000
WQED MULTIMEDIA$5,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
WE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS$3,500
MORE THAN WORDS INC$2,500
FOOD FOR FAIRFIELD INC$2,000
JAMES RIVER OUTDOOR COALITION$2,000
ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC$2,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $5k → 11%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $2k → 7%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $2k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH IN: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH IN: $20k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 8 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$97k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +8%
  • WM
    WQED MULTIMEDIA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • BH
    BARBARAS HOUSE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +28%
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
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc

Phipps' mission is to inspire and educate all with the beauty and importance of plants, to advance sustainability and promote human and environmental well-being through action and research, and to celebrate its historic glasshouse.

Environment
2
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
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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5
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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6
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
7
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
8
The Friends of the Pittsburgh Institutions
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9
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
10
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc

The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is James River Outdoor Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDA…LITERACY PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · EducationLITERACY PITTSBURGHSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationSHADY SIDE ACADEMYEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $5,000 · EducationWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $40,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCES…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBU…ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON U…UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN…MORE THAN WORDS INC: $5,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INCFOOD FOR FAIRFIELD INC: $2,000 · OtherFOOD FOR FAIRFIELD I…+4 more: $4,000 · Other+4 moreRIVERLIFE: $12,000 · EnvironmentRIVERLIFEAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $3,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON SO…WQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureJAMES RIVER OUTDOOR COALITION: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,000 · Animals
Education$61,000Human Services$49,000Other$31,000Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$10,000Youth Development$2,000Animals$1,000

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHADY SIDE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWE NEED DIVERSE BOOKS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARAS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $1,000 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 McGough Frazier Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McGough Frazier Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Barbaras House Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 22 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-PF 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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