How much did POISE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$4.9MHealth$3.5MHuman Services$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.3MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$1.0MCommunity Improvement$884kPhilanthropy$529kOther$7.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

twelfth gradecharacteramachiincarcerationblockeastcatholic

2020

porgrambethelwesley ameame zionzion churchtemplesickle cell

2021

lawlegalstrengthen institutionsinstitutions cultivatingleadership classclass executiveexecutive education

2022

peace mindcorporationempowering youthsee schedulepittsburgh provisionaudiencesadvocacy

2023

beammuseumsfacilitieshomesteadsupplieranchor institutionsmaterials

2024

gapsbirthingpreventivesitesunitfullboxing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $71k
$10k–50k67 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k32 grants · $2.4M
$250k+2 grants · $1.6M

$21,667

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRIZE$1,208,400
ALLIANCE FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY$384,725
THE GENESIS COLLECTIVE$142,180
BLACK TECH NATION$140,000
MAYA ORGANIZATION$130,000
POORLAW$110,916
BIBLE CENTER CHURCH - THE OASIS PROJECT$105,000
FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH$90,000
YOUTHPLACES$80,000
ZA'KIYAH HOUSE HOUSING$80,000
THE UNION PROJECT$75,000
NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$75,000
SQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER$75,000
WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$75,000
WOMEN IN TECH PGH$75,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$16M · 108 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

108 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108

158

Total granted

$16M

$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+49%

Still filing today

69%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

PT
PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRIZE
3× · 2022–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +173% · 73% of their budget
HD
HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE
2× · 2020–2022 · $521k · revenue +31%
YOUNG BLACK MOTIVATED KINGS & QUEEN
4× · 2020–2024 · $451k · revenue +91%

Funded once

AW
AUGUST WILSON AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +131%
CT
COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION
one grant, 2022 · $755k · revenue +2% · 34% of their budget
AM
AFRO-AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE
one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -7% · 47% of their budget

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.

Team Pittsburgh

Youth dek hockey league.

Recreation & Sports

True T Pittsburgh

Human Services

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden inspires people to value plants, garden design and the natural world by cultivating plant collections of the Allegheny Plateau and temperate regions, creating display gardens, conducting educational programs and…

Youth Development

Prevention Point Pittsburgh

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

Health

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Pittsburgh Action Against Rape

To respond, educate, and advocate to end sexual violence.

Health

GlobalPittsburgh

GlobalPittsburgh is a nonprofit organization with a mission to forge cultural, educational, and business relationships between Western Pennsylvania and the global community through citizen diplomacy.

Community Improvement

Pittsburg Beautiful Inc

Environment

Pittsburgh Economic and Industrial

The Organization's purpose is to formulate, implement and promote commercial, industrial and other economic development goals, strategies and projects in the City of Pittsburgh. This includes purchase and master-leasing of real estate, as…

Community Improvement

Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment G

PCRG is a coalition of community leaders working for economic justice, equitable investment practices and sufficient financial resources to revitalize communities throughout Allegheny County, PA

Community Improvement

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Improve quality of life by enhancing pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighborhood Resilience Project and the most unlike its peers is Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit. 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.

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 16 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%12/316

the rest of the field

635/9,590

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

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

184/197

Grantees still filing

134/197

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$10,140,741Arts & Culture$4,865,128Health$3,505,165Human Services$1,996,718Public Benefit$1,790,601Crime & Legal$1,286,788Education$1,183,596

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.

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 FoundationPA141.1× affinity176 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Opportunity Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Upmc Group · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · The United Way of Southwestern · Staunton Farm Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · The Buhl 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 organisation POISE 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE HEAR FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue held over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 881887320 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE HEAR FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Poise Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Poise Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

POISE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Poise Foundation?

More from the funding graph

POISE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Poise Foundation?

More from the funding graph