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Pistell Family Foundation at a glance

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Pistell 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.

$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$150kHealth$115kEducation$108kReligion$27kHuman Services$25kAnimals$15kRecreation & Sports$12kScience & Tech$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$750
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEVELAND METROPARKS$10,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS$6,500
FIRST COAST OF YMCA$5,000
GREAT LAKES THEATER$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$3,500
THE TASIS FOUNDATION$2,500
SAINT LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,500
COWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOC$1,500
BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,000
BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER$1,000
BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION$750
BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION$750
MILLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
YWCA$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $3k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $2k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $1k → 13%THE GATHERING PLACE: $250 → 17%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $500 → 13%BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER: $500 → 13%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

WA
WI
MI
NY
NV
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$402k · 35 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$402k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+3%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
HealthAnimalsEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +14%
  • GN
    GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $63k · revenue +34%
  • GL
    GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • BC
    BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +33%
  • GN
    GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • BS
    BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Morris Animal Foundation

Morris animal foundation's (the foundation's) mission is to bridge science and resources to advance the health of animals. since the foundation's founding in 1948, more than 20,000 species have been helped through scientific studies and…

Animals
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Animal Cancer Foundation

Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…

Health
12
New England Aquarium Corporation

The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bath Community Hospital; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $71,500 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $18,000 · OtherST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER: $12,000 · OtherGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTERCLEVELAND METROPARKS: $10,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPARKSNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $7,500 · OtherST CHRISTOPHER'S BY THE RIVER: $7,149 · OtherMCARTHUR FAMILY YMCA: $7,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $6,500 · Other+45 more: $47,527 · Other+45 moreGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $63,000 · Arts & CultureGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUND…GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $61,250 · Arts & CultureGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL I…+2 more: $6,250 · Arts & CultureMiami University Foundation: $77,098 · EducationMiami University Found…FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $13,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUG…NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $2,800 · EducationBATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $25,000 · HealthBATH COMM…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,000 · HealthNATIONAL …MEDWISH MEDWORKS: $4,000 · HealthMEDWISH M…BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health+3 more: $2,000 · HealthNational Airedale Rescue Inc: $6,250 · AnimalsAIREDALE TERRIER RESCUE & ADOPTION: $1,250 · AnimalsMission K9 Rescue Inc: $1,250 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,250 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $750 · Animals+1 more: $250 · AnimalsBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $9,250 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesTASIS FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 · International+1 more: $125 · International
Other$187,176Arts & Culture$130,500Education$97,898Health$38,500Animals$11,000Human Services$9,500International$8,375

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 budgetMiami University Foundation: $77,098 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC: $61,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC: $9,250 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetTASIS FOUNDATION INC: $8,250 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNational Airedale Rescue Inc: $6,250 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION: $4,250 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMEDWISH MEDWORKS: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,250 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBath County Historical Society Inc: $2,050 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR NEIGHBORS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $1,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAIREDALE TERRIER RESCUE & ADOPTION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMission K9 Rescue Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA American Trail Running Associaition: $1,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVIRGINIA SHERIFFS' INSTITUTE INC: $877 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen Giving Back Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBORO AREA RESCUE SQUAD INC: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBATH ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $125 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GARTH NEWEL MUSIC CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES THEATER FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds BATH COUNTY CHRISTMAS MOTHER INC ↗
  • Who funds TASIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds National Airedale Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BATH COUNTY ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
  • Who funds COWPASTURE RIVER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Bath County Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds Playhouse Square Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BATH COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AIREDALE TERRIER RESCUE & ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds Mission K9 Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROAD RUNNERS CLUB OF AMERICA American Trail Running Associaition ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗

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.

Virginia Hot Springs …Harris Foundation co …Guilford FoundationRichardson Family Fou…Dominion Energy Chari…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …
Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust IncVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Virginia Hot Springs Preservation Trust Inc · Harris Foundation co Hiter Harris III · Guilford Foundation · Richardson Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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

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