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Patsy D Tiani Foundation at a glance

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Patsy D Tiani 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.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$62kHuman Services$47kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$13kEducation$11kPublic Benefit$9kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CCAP WINCHESTER FREDERICK COUNTY$9,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$9,000
CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH$9,000
AQUINAS ACADEMY$6,000
WILDLIFE WORKS INC$5,000
ENVISION BLIND SPORTS$5,000
K9'S FOR WARRIORS$5,000
ALL BUT FURGOTTEN$5,000
PET FRIENDS INC$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY$4,000
WESTMORELAND FOOD BANK$4,000
SOS ANIMAL RESCUE$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $5k → 13%CRISIS CENTER NORTH: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 9 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$106k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
-1%

Still filing today

56%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +12%
  • WW
    WILDLIFE WORKS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue -32%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -1%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +59%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Paws - Preservation of Animal Welfare & Safety Inc

The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…

Animals
2
Pet Connectors Inc

Rescue homeless pets, vacinate and neuter pets

Animals
3
Hope for All Pets Inc

Animal welfare

Animals
4
Animal Protection and Wellness Services

The mission of apaws is to provide low cost veterinary services to area rescues as well as to the community and to be an assisting agency to local law enforcement by providing temporary holding and medical care to domesticated animals that…

Animals
5
Furever Friendz Inc

Care and adoption of demestic

Animals
6
Pats Pets Corporation

Animal rescue

Animals
7
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
8
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
10
Petworks Animal Services Inc

To shelter, care for, and rehome adoptable animals.

Animals
11
Paws Inn Veterinary Care Assistance

Low cost spay/neuter

Animals
12
Forpaws Spay & Neuter Clinic

Our mission is to reduce the number of feline, dog, and rabbit pregnancies by providing affordable at-cost spaying and neutering. By reducing the number of pregnancies, it follows that fewer animals would be left at shelters or discarded.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K9S for Warriors Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Children's Home of Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIONWESTMORELAND FOOD BANK: $12,500 · OtherWESTMORELAND FOOD BANKRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $12,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEAQUINAS ACADEMY: $11,000 · OtherAQUINAS ACADEMYCCAP WINCHESTER FREDERICK COUNTY: $9,000 · OtherCCAP WINCHESTER FREDERICK COUNTYCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $9,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGHIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOS ANIMAL RESCUE: $4,000 · OtherK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCWILDLIFE WORKS INC: $13,500 · AnimalsWILDLIFE WORKS INCPET FRIENDS INC: $10,000 · AnimalsPET FRIENDS INCALL BUT FURGOTTEN INC: $10,000 · AnimalsALL BUT FURGOTTEN INCHumane Society Of Westmoreland County: $9,000 · AnimalsHumane Society Of Westmoreland Coun…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $9,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $12,000 · PhilanthropyCRISIS CENTER NORTH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$87,500Animals$57,500Health$19,000Philanthropy$12,000Human Services$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE WORKS INC: $13,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetALL BUT FURGOTTEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society Of Westmoreland County: $9,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS CENTER NORTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENVISION BLIND SPORTS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patsy D Tiani Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patsy D Tiani Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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