Skip to content
Pirates Charities at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Pirates Charities

PIRATES CHARITIES is committed to strengthening our community, focusing on youth baseball and softball, military appreciation, mental health, and cancer support.

$691k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$2.3MHealth$1.2MEducation$614kYouth Development$391kHuman Services$283kArts & Culture$236kFood & Nutrition$187kPublic Safety & Disaster$135kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $598,442, the rows itemized in this filing. The $690,832 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $92,390 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $462k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$50,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA$30,000
HIGHLANDS SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
APOLLO RIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT$25,000
NORTH SIDE BASEBALL$23,790
SMOCK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
CITY OF MONESSEN$17,300
LECOM STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,000
MANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$15,000
MONONGAHELA YOUTH BASEBALL$15,000
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE$15,000
A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION$13,942
CENTER TOWNSHIP ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$13,000
LATROBE DERRY AREA TEENER LEAGUE$12,500
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 (FY17–23, $404k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 18%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MORGANTOWNSTEPPINGSTONES: $5k → 19%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $8k → 16%HELPING HEROES: $8k → 18%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $6k → 16%HELPING HEROES: $5k → 18%HELPING HEROES: $5k → 18%HELPING HEROES: $10k → 18%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $14k → 11%HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $12k → 11%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $5k → 11%STEPPING STONES: $28k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%HEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $7k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF WESTERN PA: $15k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $150k → 11%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $6k → 11%HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 67 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

67 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
168

Total granted

$3.5M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

81%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $168k · revenue +182%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2017–2020 · $162k · revenue +91%
  • MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +227%

Funded once

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +26%
  • BK
    BURGER KING CANCER CARING CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $71k · revenue -65%
  • CB
    CANCER BRIDGESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $71k · revenue +58%
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
Warren Park Youth Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
2
Little League Baseball Inc Pennsville Little League

Founded in 1952, pennsville little league is one of the areas first sanctioned little league programs. pennsville little league provides a healthy activity for the area's boys ages 5 to 12 and girls ages 5 to 16, while promoting an…

—
3
Little League Baseball Inc

To promote youth development

—
4
Hampden Youth Baseball Association

Little league baseball

—
5
Youngstown Class B Baseball Inc
Philanthropy
6
Little League Baseball Inc

youth baseball

—
7
Little League Baseball Inc Johnstown Little League

To allow children supervised baseball from ages 5 to 12

—
8
Martinsburg Youth Baseball League

Youth baseball/softball league

Youth Development
9
Morgantown Baseball League

Providing a Youth Baseball League for North Central WV expanding across 3 counties

Recreation & Sports
10
Little League Baseball Inc

Little league baseball

Recreation & Sports
11
Franklin Township Baseball League

Teach baseball to franklin youth

Recreation & Sports
12
Greater Pittston Area Little League

Little League Baseball

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quaker Valley Recreation Association; the most unlike its peers is Para Ti Global. 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

163 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 163 of the 262 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/163
Grantees still filing
101/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHMARK HEALTH: $531,480 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTHNo Bully: $144,000 · OtherMANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $109,578 · OtherGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $161,547 · OtherGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK+112 more: $2,026,672 · Other+112 moreCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE: $87,138 · Recreation & SportsCASEY'S CLUBHOU…MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MANASOTA INC: $49,500 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE …YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF HARRISON COUNTY INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $35,328 · Recreation & SportsMiracle League of Southwestern PA: $32,500 · Recreation & SportsFOX CHAPEL AREA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsINGOMAR FRANKLIN PARK LITTLE LEAGUE: $29,500 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH PARK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $28,100 · Recreation & SportsCENTER TOWNSHIP ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $26,798 · Recreation & Sports+36 more: $408,868 · Recreation & Sports+36 moreTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $200,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesMIRACLE LEAGUE OF BLAIR COUNTY INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesHELPING HEROES INC: $28,253 · Human ServicesStepping Stones Children's Center: $27,500 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $23,668 · Human ServicesHEROES SUPPORTING HEROES: $18,863 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $18,750 · Human Services+5 more: $47,350 · Human ServicesA GLIMMER OF HOPE INC: $136,000 · HealthLending Hearts: $107,400 · HealthCANCER BRIDGES: $71,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,000 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $30,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $14,076 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $168,196 · Youth DevelopmentDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · Youth DevelopmentMIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA: $62,500 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentQuaker Valley Recreation Association: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $171,005 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $50,000 · EducationCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR: $45,000 · Arts & CulturePROUD HAVEN INC: $12,825 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25: $12,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH OPERA INC: $11,363 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,973,277Recreation & Sports$765,232Human Services$431,884Health$418,476Youth Development$368,196Education$321,005Arts & Culture$198,688

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF MOON TOWNSHIP: $200,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $171,005 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $168,196 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $161,547 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNo Bully: $144,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetA GLIMMER OF HOPE INC: $136,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetMANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $109,578 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetLending Hearts: $107,400 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE: $87,138 over 4y, 16% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBURGER KING CANCER CARING CENTER: $71,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $71,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetDREAMBUILDERS FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA: $62,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetINDIANA COUNTY YMCA (5647): $55,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL: $52,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF MANASOTA INC: $49,500 over 2y, 51% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $49,358 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $45,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR: $45,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CUP: $44,345 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc: $41,818 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $35,328 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE MANCHESTER CITIZENS CORPORATION: $35,116 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetOPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION: $34,522 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetROBERTO CLEMENTE FOUNDATION CORP: $34,424 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetMiracle League of Southwestern PA: $32,500 over 2y, 27% of budgetFOX CHAPEL AREA BASEBALL SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetBRAD-MAR-PINE AA: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINGOMAR FRANKLIN PARK LITTLE LEAGUE: $29,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetIT'S ABOUT THE WARRIORS FOUNDATION: $29,296 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHELPING HEROES INC: $28,253 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $28,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH PARK BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $28,100 over 3y, 22% of budgetDuBois Oklahoma Athletic Assoc: $27,500 over 1y, 82% of budgetStepping Stones Children's Center: $27,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER TOWNSHIP ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $26,798 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHREE THIRTY THREE FOUNDATION INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $23,668 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANON-MAC YOUTH GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $23,000 over 2y, 14% 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…Eqt FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Upmc GroupThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The Heinz EndowmentsMichael Baker Interna…Pittsburgh Penguins F…Community Foundation …
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA36.5× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Michael Baker International Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown

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 Pirates Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pirates Charities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pirates Charities?

Find your warmest path to Pirates Charities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 262 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Pirates Charities’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home