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Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$216k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Human Services$530kReligion$183kPhilanthropy$167kHousing & Shelter$65kEmployment$49kEducation$47kYouth Development$46kHealth$40kCommunity Improvement$33kOther$563k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILYLINKS$15,000
SOJOURNER HOUSE$15,000
HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND$13,500
YOUTH GUIDANCE (BECOMING A MAN)$12,500
DRAGON'S DEN$12,000
WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER$12,000
OPEN UP$10,000
EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY$10,000
CASA SAN JOSE$10,000
THE PITTSBURGH PROJECT$10,000
YOUNG BLACK MOTIVATED KINGS AND QUEENS$10,000
NEIGHBORHOOD LEARNING ALLIANCE$10,000
SCHOOLS THAT CAN$10,000
CAFE MOMENTUM$10,000
BROOKLINE TEEN OUTREACH$9,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $530k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $8k → 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $7k → 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $6k → 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $9k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $5k → 10%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE: $10k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE: $8k → 11%GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15k → 11%THREE RIVERS YOUTH: $15k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $15k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $14k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $14k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $12k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $10k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%FAMILYLINKS: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $10k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $9k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $9k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $9k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $8k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $8k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $12k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $9k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $14k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $10k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $9k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $9k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN: $8k → 11%JUBILEE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 38 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
26

Total granted

$1.4M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+22%

Still filing today

76%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • SH
    SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +125%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +90%
  • AV
    ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $86k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • TR
    THREE RIVERS YOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +63%
  • AI
    ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
2
Point Park University

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…

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3
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
4
Sustainable Pittsburgh

Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.

Environment
5
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement
6
Young Women's Christian Association Greater Pittsburgh

Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…

Human Services
7
Pittsburgh Business Group On Health

An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.

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8
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
9
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
10
Cafe Momentum Pittsburgh

Cafe momentum pittsburgh transforms young lives by equipping the community's most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.

Crime & Legal
11
Casa of Allegheny County

To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.

Civil Rights
12
Global Solutions Pittsburgh

The global switchboard stewards a diverse network of people and organizations to promote equitable global engagement in the pittsburgh region. we strive to build a region where all people value diversity, practice empathy, and work…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Serenity Living Transitional Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent and Charter Sch…Youth and Community Develop…Industry Trade AssociationsRetiree Benefit TrustsEmergency Assistance & Food…Healthcare Systems and Serv…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%4%<5yr12%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr21%17%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%4%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr21%16%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,854

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.

05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
37/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $93,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREA…FAMILYLINKS INC — $78,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYLINKS INCEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $67,000 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRYJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $49,500 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF…JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC — $46,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INCBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $45,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGHBEVERLY'S PGH — $30,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGHCASA SAN JOSE — $29,000 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSELIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $28,000 · Human ServicesTHREE RIVERS YOUTH — $20,000 · Human Services+7 more — $44,000 · Human Services+7 moreALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES — $86,000 · OtherALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHESTHE SALVATION ARMY — $82,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYAngels Place Inc — $50,500 · OtherAngels Place IncLIGHT OF LIFE MISSION'S WOMEN & CHILDREN PROGRAM — $36,500 · OtherLIGHT OF LIFE MISSION'S WOMEN & CHILDREN PRO…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PITTSBURGH — $30,000 · OtherHEARTH'S TRANSITIONAL HOUSING PROGRAM — $28,500 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $30,000 · Other+36 more — $338,200 · Other+36 moreSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES — $144,500 · ReligionSOUTH HILLS …BRIDGE TO THE MOUNTAINS — $38,500 · ReligionBRIDGE TO TH…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $78,550 · PhilanthropyHOMELESS C…THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $70,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSB…GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH — $13,375 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKER…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropySERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME — $43,000 · Housing & ShelterSOJOURNER HOUSE MOMS — $16,000 · Housing & ShelterSISTERS PLACE INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $27,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $22,000 · EmploymentSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $15,000 · EducationOpen Up — $10,000 · EducationYoung Black Motivated Kings & Queen — $10,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $6,750 · EducationFAME — $5,000 · Education
Human Services$530,000Other$681,700Religion$183,000Philanthropy$166,925Housing & Shelter$65,000Employment$49,000Education$46,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES — $144,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $93,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES — $86,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND — $78,550 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC — $78,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $67,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAngels Place Inc — $50,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $49,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC — $46,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME — $43,000 over 4y, 59% of budgetBRIDGE TO THE MOUNTAINS — $38,500 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH — $30,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE — $29,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $28,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $27,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAGON'S DEN — $21,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetART EXPRESSION INC — $20,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHREE RIVERS YOUTH — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBrookline Teen Outreach — $19,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project — $18,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOJOURNER HOUSE MOMS — $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH — $13,375 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING — $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWireless Neighborhoods — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR — $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $6,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSISTERS PLACE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR VICTIMS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAME — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUBERLE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARD HOME INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE TO THE MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
  • Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAGON'S DEN ↗
  • Who funds ART EXPRESSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THREE RIVERS YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds Brookline Teen Outreach ↗
  • Who funds The Pittsburgh Project ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE MOMS ↗
  • Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING ↗

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The United Way of Sou…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Heinz EndowmentsStaunton Farm Foundat…Eden Hall FoundationEqt FoundationMassey Charitable Tru…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Upmc Group
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA72× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Upmc Group

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 Pittsburgh Child Guidance 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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