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Michael Baker International 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $30,000 |
| March of Dimes | $18,070 |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $10,000 |
| Beaver Area Heritage Foundation | $5,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $1,500 |
| Screaming Eagle Foundation | $1,000 |
| Beaver County Foundation | $1,000 |
| Central Pennsylvania Food Bank | $500 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $500 |
| United Way of the Capital Region | $500 |
| Pennsylvania Wounded Warriors Inc | $500 |
| Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh | $500 |
| Western Beaver Band Parents | $500 |
| Allegheny Center Christian and Missionary Alliance Church | $500 |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 18 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +49%
- PHPROJECT HOME2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +12%
- PWPENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +20%
- TUThe United Way - Virginia Beach Tragedy Fundone grant, 2019 · $12k
- AOALASKA OIL AND GAS HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -27%
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.
Humane pennsylvania empowers the people in our communities to increase their capacity to care for animals so that all animals are healthy, safe, and treated humanely.
To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.
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…
The central pennsylvania blood bank (cpbb) is a community based blood program committed to providing a quality blood supply, responsive to community needs, in a cost effective manner. cpbb works to promote, secure, and coordinate 100% of…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
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,…
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Play and Exploration. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
153 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. 153 of the 235 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
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
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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALASKA OIL AND GAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Beaver Area Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA WOUNDED WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOODBANK OF SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters ↗
- Who funds MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS MOTHERS MILK BANK D/B/A MID-ATLANTIC MOTHERS' MILK BANK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNT OF A LIFETIME ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds IBTTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFENET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRISBURG AREA INC ↗
- Who funds HELLO BULLY ↗
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 Cigna Group Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Upmc Group · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · James Frances McCandless Trust
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 Michael Baker International 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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