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Pittsburgh Leadership Fund at a glance

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Pittsburgh Leadership Fund

The fund operates for the benefit of the pittsburgh leadership foundation, a section 501(c)(3) organization, by making contributions to the foundation and, at the discretion of its board, other contributions from the principle of the funds maintianed by the fund.

$92k
Granted FY2018
6
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Pittsburgh Leadership Fund’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Pittsburgh Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Pittsburgh Leadership Fund named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $56k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’17
6
’18
4
’19
2
’20
0
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Philanthropy$2.2MReligion$71kPublic Benefit$58kHousing & Shelter$22kInternational$20kFood & Nutrition$7kHealth$7kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2018 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $56,106, the rows itemized in this filing. The $91,906 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $35,800 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 · FY2018

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$14,939
FAITH EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH$10,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
GREATER PGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$7,167
MANTLE HOUSE MISSION$7,000
NEW LIFE OPTIONS$7,000
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 (FY17–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $15k → 12%RIVERVIEW COMMUNITY ACTION: $6k → 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.
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
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
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
3
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
4
Fort Wayne Rescue Mission Ministries Inc

To provide, through the power of jesus christ, a home for the homeless, food for the hungry, and hope for their future.

Housing & Shelter
5
Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health
6
Christian Financial Outreach and Impact Foundation Inc
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7
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates

Breaking the cycle of poverty and despair, one life at a time. this is accomplished by working with local churches to provide for the physical and spiritual needs of men, women and children who have lost hope and are least able to meet…

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8
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
9
Visionsynergy

Our mission is to accelerate the great commission by equipping leaders, developing networks, and catalyzing collaboration toward spiritual breakthroughs among the least reached peoples and places of the world.

International
10
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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11
Marketplace Ministries Inc

To share god's love in the workplace by providing a personalized and proactive employee care service through chaplain teams.

Religion
12
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Mantle House Mission. 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $1,845,975 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATIONAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $274,306 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $58,039 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $12,000 · OtherMT HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH PRESBYTERI: $12,000 · OtherNORTH WAY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: $12,000 · OtherGATEWAY BIBLE CHURCH INC: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $7,000 · OtherWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND: $5,573 · OtherThe Mantle House Mission: $7,000 · OtherOPTIONS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $47,977 · Community ImprovementCARIBBEAN YOUTH NETWORK INC: $15,000 · ReligionTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $10,000 · ReligionWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $14,500 · Human ServicesRiverview Community Action Corporation: $5,800 · Human ServicesHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $7,167 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$2,120,281Other$130,612Community Improvement$47,977Religion$25,000Human Services$20,300International$20,000Food & Nutrition$7,167

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 PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $1,845,975 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $274,306 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $58,039 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $47,977 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARIBBEAN YOUTH NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RELEVATE GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $7,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mantle House Mission: $7,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOPTIONS RESOURCE CENTER: $7,000 over 1y, 13% 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…Renaissance Charitabl…Charities Aid Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 18 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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