· Private foundation
Mirapaul Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k38 grants · $94k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW DIRECTIONS | $55,000 |
| FAME CENTER | $20,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH | $19,500 |
| RAILS-TO-TRAILS CONSERVANCY | $15,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $12,000 |
| PRODUCER HUB | $10,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY CRAFT | $10,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY | $10,000 |
| 412 FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ILLINOIS | $10,000 |
| CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 14 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- OTOLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC8× · 2017–2024 · $257k · revenue +13%
DIRECT RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +94%- WTWriters Theatre Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- COCITY OF EVANSTONone grant, 2018 · $30k
- HTHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +151%
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +34%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is W Eugene Smith Memorial Fund Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 124 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 NEW DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN SCHOOL OF FOLK MUSIC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FAME CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds W EUGENE SMITH MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
- Who funds ONE MILLION DEGREES ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · The Fine Foundation · Forefront · The Heinz Endowments · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Reva and David Logan Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Dr Scholl 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 Mirapaul 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.