· Private foundation
Robert S and Louise S Kahn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAFGIVING360 | $400,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SHENANGO VALLEY CATHOLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM | $50,000 |
| SAINT MONICA CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $35,000 |
| DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| PREAMBULA GROUP | $20,000 |
| RAISE28 | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL AVIARY | $15,000 |
| SHEPHERDS HEART FELLOWSHIP & MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| GREATER LATROBE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HAIR PEACE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
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, $750k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +61%
- PWPENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +22%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- TPTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION - PITTSBURGH CRECHE ENDOWMENT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $250k
- CWCARDINAL WUERL NORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $100k
- GAGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +49%
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.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
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…
The children's home of pittsburgh, established in 1893, is an independent, non-profit licensed organization whose purpose is to promote the health and well-being of infants and children through services which establish and strengthen the…
Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of the peal center is to educate and empower families to ensure that children, youth and young adults with disabilities and special health care needs lead rich, active lives as full members of their schools and communities.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Future Vision Foundation Inc. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 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. 33 of the 55 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA WOMEN WORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RAISE28 ↗
- Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEMENTE COLLECTION AT ENGINE HOUSE 25 ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PREAMBULA GROUP ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HAIR PEACE CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds PROMISE OF LIFE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds GREATER LATROBE PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · Robert & Mary Weisbrod Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher 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 Robert S and Louise S Kahn 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.
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.
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