· Private foundation
Myles D & J Faye Sampson Family Foundationc/O Intentional Philanthrophy
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $811k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $680k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROW PITTSBURGH | $100,000 |
| GROW PITTSBURGH | $85,000 |
| THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH & WOMEN'S HEALTH | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH | $75,000 |
| GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE | $60,000 |
| DOCUMENTING HOPE | $60,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR MIND BODY MEDICINE | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF AZCIM | $50,000 |
| FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES | $50,000 |
| FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES | $40,000 |
| DOCUMENTING HOPE | $35,000 |
| PITTSBURGH STRUGGLING STUDENT ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| SHUNPIKE | $30,000 |
| THE COMPASS CENTER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $504k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +24% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 20 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- GPGROW PITTSBURGH7× · 2019–2025 · $655k · revenue +133%
- TMTHE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH7× · 2019–2025 · $550k · revenue +3%
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH7× · 2019–2025 · $500k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HTHARVARD TH CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH DBA PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- DEDR EISENBERG AT THE WINDWARD FUNDone grant, 2019 · $100k
- SVSANKOFA VILLAGE COMMUNITY GARDENone grant, 2022 · $83k
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.
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
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 union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
Better future project works to build a powerful grassroots movement to address the climate crisis and advance a rapid and responsible transition beyond fossil fuels. we educate the public about climate change, empower new leaders, and help…
As a national leader in environmental health research and advocacy, toxic- free future uses the power of science, education, and activism, to drive strong laws and corporate responsibility that protect the health of all people and the…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adopt a Boxer Rescue. 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 22 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 166 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 GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COALFIELD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Documenting Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIR SHAKE ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Real Food for Kids ↗
- Who funds HILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GREEN INNOVATORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE END INC ↗
- Who funds MWANAKUCHE FARM ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DOG TAG INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTRACKER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds Garfield Community Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CARES ↗
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 Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Poise Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Neighborhood Allies Inc · McAuley Ministries · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na
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 Myles D & J Faye Sampson Family Foundationc/O Intentional Philanthrophy 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% 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.