· Private foundation
Patton M for Charities
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $17,036 |
| ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HAVIN | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| OPERATION WARM | $12,000 |
| ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY | $12,000 |
| THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $11,820 |
| PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY | $10,000 |
| LIFESTEPS INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CHESTNUT | $10,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE | $6,000 |
| WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION | $5,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +13%
- LILIFESTEPS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +16%
- OWOperation Warm Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $47k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - NORone grant, 2020 · $15k
- ACARMSTRONG CNTY CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAM SEone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TATHE AMERICAN RED CROSS OF CHESTNUT RIDGEone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care .
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Goodwill of southwestern pennsylvania is a human service agency and network of not-for-profit businesses whose mission is to strengthen communities, advance reuse and sustainability, and empower people to achieve their potential. see…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Wesley family services foundation ("foundation") is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and has been further classified as a type i supporting organization engaging in fund-raising, research and other charitable activities on behalf of…
Our mission is to provide the highest quality of services to empower all people in their pursuit of independence and interdependence in a full and inclusive community.
Housing for the intellectual and developmental disability program clients of wesley family services and its member organization, family services of western pennsylvania
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Cultivating inclusive communities through relationships, innovation and high-quality services.
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
United way of the csra mobilizes the caring power of our community to make lasting change on the issues that matter most in our region. we want to ensure that children, young adults, and families have the tools and resources they need to…
Adagio health promotes the health of women, men and children, with a focus on women, their families and their communities, by providing health and nutrition services and related educational programs throughout the commonwealth of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania and the most unlike its peers is Reagan's Journey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 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 GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIFESTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE WORKSHOP OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ARMSTRONG COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds WHOSOEVER GOSPEL MISSION AND RES CUE HOME ASSO OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds ACCESSABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING CENTER OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds Armstrong Center for Medicine & Health Inc ↗
- Who funds BREATHE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds REAGAN'S JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds Spina Bifida Assoc of Western PA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
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 United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Patton M for Charities 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.