· Private foundation
Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $100,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY-HILLEL | $15,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PITTSBURGH | $7,500 |
| CHABAD OF SQUIRREL HILL INC | $6,250 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $3,255 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $1,500 |
| CONGREGATION POALE ZEDECK | $1,375 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $1,000 |
| MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $90 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 51% of Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 36%.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $87k · revenue +28%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +41%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $29k
- CWCLASSROOMS WITHOUT BORDERS (JEWISH FED OF PITTSBURGH)one grant, 2018 · $20k
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +20%
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.
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To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Healthcare, education, and research
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How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 75 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BOSTON UNIVERSITY HILLEL INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds Columbus School for Girls ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds 5P SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · David S Shapira Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Herman & Helen Lipsitz Charitable Trust · Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Char · Massey Charitable Trust · The Fine Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Giant Eagle Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert I Glimcher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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