· Private foundation
Piston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $4,035 |
| THE CITY OF HERMITAGE PA | $3,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC3× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +144%
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC3× · 2017–2021 · $21k · revenue +46%
THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GCGRAND COURT ORDER OF THE AMARANTHone grant, 2021 · $17k
- MPMISS PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $8k
- VOVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 7599 REYNOLDSone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +4%
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
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…
At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Franklin & marshall college is a residential college dedicated to excellence in undergraduate liberal arts education. its aims are to inspire in young people of high promise and diverse backgrounds a genuine and enduring love for learning,…
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 7599 REYNOLDS ↗
- Who funds HERMITAGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MERCER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON ROBOTICS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Shenango Valley YMCA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Piston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Piston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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