· Private foundation
Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $256k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY | $40,000 |
| WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $40,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH | $37,000 |
| HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION | $30,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $29,530 |
| FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION | $14,299 |
| THE NOAH ANGELICI HOPE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| UPPER ST CLAIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $85 |
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 (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE5× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +28%
- EMEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +8%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- WPWESTMINISTER PRESBTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundationone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +7%- TSTHE SHALOM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -43%
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Healthcare, education, and research
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is South Sixth Street Playground Assoc. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 51 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 THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDUP RIVER RANCH ↗
- Who funds ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SHALOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SIXTH STREET PLAYGROUND ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Noah Angelici Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MERAKEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER ST CLAIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENTUCKY 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Rossin Foundation · Upmc Group · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans 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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