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Paul G Benedum Jr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CARNEGIE INSTITUE-MUSEUMS | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF COLLIER COUNTRY-NAPLES FL | $100,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER - NATURE PLAYGROUND & TROUT PROGRAM | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $35,000 |
| THE KISKI SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LINSLY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF PITTSBURGH | $20,000 |
| VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER | $20,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of your 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.
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
- SSSHADY SIDE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $255k · revenue +54%
- TKTHE KISKI SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $138k · revenue +13%
- TCTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF COLLIER COUNTRY-NAPLES FLone grant, 2024 · $100k
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUE-MUSEUMSone grant, 2024 · $100k
- VSVALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER - NATURE PLAYGROUND & TROUT PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
An independent college preparatory school for girls from age three through twelfth grade.
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
A coeducational, college preparatory school serving students in grades 6-12 with a mission of "inspiring students to risk being their best".
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
To operate a private school for age 3 through eighth grade students.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
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…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.
To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Neighborhood Academy and the most unlike its peers is Shady Side Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE KISKI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WHEELING COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
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 · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Paul G Benedum Jr 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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