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Montague 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Doctors Without Borders | $7,600 |
| Pine Island Camp | $7,600 |
| The Columbus Academy | $4,300 |
| Public Broadcasting Service Foundat | $3,300 |
| National Public Radio | $2,000 |
| Canine Partners for Life | $2,000 |
| Conservation Lands Foundation | $1,600 |
| Grow Pittsburgh | $1,000 |
| Bethlehem Haven of Pittsburgh | $1,000 |
| Western PA Diaper Bank | $1,000 |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Homeless Children Education Fund | $1,000 |
| Native Renewables Inc | $1,000 |
| Familylinks | $1,000 |
| PA Cleanways of Allegheny County | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PIPine Island Camp9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +88%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $55k · revenue +98%- TCTHE COLUMBUS ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- OCOCEAN CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +31%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -63%- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +46%
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.
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 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…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
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…
Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is United States Equestrian Team Foundation 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 34 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 0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 46 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 Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FAME ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE RENEWABLES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS 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: Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Eqt Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · Allegheny Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
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 Montague 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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