· Private foundation
Phillip H Wimmer and Betty L Wimmer Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY WESTERN PA | $15,000 |
| JCC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $12,500 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| EASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS | $7,500 |
| MAKE A WISH GREATER PENNSYLVANIA AND WEST VIRGINIA INC | $5,000 |
| PROJECT DESTINY INC | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE | $5,000 |
| UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| MIAMI WATERKEEPER | $5,000 |
| FERN HOLLOW NATURE CENTER | $2,500 |
| PITTSBURGH ZOO AND AQUARIUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT7× · 2018–2024 · $365k · revenue +24%
- SSSHADY SIDE ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $340k · revenue +54%
- CMCarnegie Mellon University7× · 2018–2024 · $95k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- LPLEAD PITTSBURGHone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -88%
- SPSOHO PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +20%
- NMNATIONAL MS SOCIETY WESTERN PA CHAPTERone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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 university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
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,…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
Established in 1945, the pittsburgh foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the united states. see additional information in schedule o
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Residential Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Little Fox Tobys Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% 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 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 58 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 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DESTINY INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SOHO PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN ATLANTIC STATES REGIONAL COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS ↗
- Who funds NUCCI-FINNY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BISCAYNE BAY WATERKEEPER 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 Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · David S Shapira Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Irving & Aaronel Deroy Gruber Foundation · Adams Foundation Inc · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Eckert Seamans Charitable 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 Phillip H Wimmer and Betty L Wimmer Family 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.
- Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc — 19% 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.