· Private foundation
Pitts Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University Development | $50,000 |
| Carroll Hospital Foundation | $40,000 |
| The Shepherd's Staff | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Caroll Hospital Auxiliary | $20,000 |
| Kennedy Kreiger Inst | $10,000 |
| McDaniel College | $10,000 |
| Penn Mar Inc | $9,000 |
| Atlas Free | $8,000 |
| Rotary Club of Bonds Meadow | $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 (FY17–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% 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.
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 +82% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k 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
- CHCARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +167%
- GBGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +8%
- POPENN-MAR ORGANIZATION INC5× · 2017–2022 · $134k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- NDNotre Dame University of Marylandone grant, 2017 · $600k
- CICHANGE INCone grant, 2019 · $50k
- WUWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Levindale is a geriatric center and hospital dedicated to providing service in a cost-effective manner for the aged, frail and ill in institutional, community and home settings. as an advocate for the elderly, levindale accepts a…
Umms provides a variety of inpatient/outpatient services to people in the maryland area regardless of their ability to pay. revenues are used to help defray the costs of services.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Our communities expect and deserve superior medical treatment, compassionate care, and expert guidance in maintaining their health and well-being. at carroll hospital center, we offer an uncompromising commitment to the highest quality…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carroll Hospital Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Uplift Internationale. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 47 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 CARROLL HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PENN-MAR ORGANIZATION INC (PA) ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CARROLL COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS STAFF INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIENER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE 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 Kahlert Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pitts 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mcdaniel College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc — 0% 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.