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McKamish Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHILD LIFE SPECIALIST | $150,000 |
| CARING HEARTS MINISTRY | $120,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S | $45,000 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $20,000 |
| FAMILY GUIDANCE | $15,000 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC | $12,000 |
| JDRF | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNSELORS COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONE TV | $10,000 |
| CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $5,000 |
| JONATHANS FOREVER YOUNG RUN | $5,000 |
| COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2018–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +40%- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2023 · $133k · revenue +91%
- LOLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- AHALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $120k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH HILLMAN CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AHALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $52k
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.
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. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
Our mission is to serve children and youth facing homelessness and human trafficking, and to protect and safeguard all children. we provide trauma-informed interventions for youth who are in need.covenant house pennsylvania (chpa) remains…
Concern's mission: concern brings hope, offers opportunity, and inspires change. concern's vision: to encourage growth and promote positive healthy lives.
Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
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,…
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Light of Life Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jonathans Forever Young Run. 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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GUIDANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds CHOICES PREGNANCY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESIDENCES AT WOOD STREET ↗
- Who funds NETWORK OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COUNSELORS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds LOCKING ARMS MEN ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Fox Families Care ↗
- Who funds Jonathans Forever Young Run ↗
- Who funds EDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS 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 Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · John E & Sue M Jackson Irr · Massey Charitable Trust · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 McKamish Family 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.
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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