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Roger & Brenda Gibson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$542kPhilanthropy$393kInternational$293kFood & Nutrition$240kHealth$221kRecreation & Sports$100kCivil Rights$100kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $395k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$200,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$144,675
JEAN B PURVIS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
THE CARTER CENTER$25,000
UNITED INITIATIVE TO CURE BRAIN CANCER$11,000
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 (FY20–20, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $50k → 9%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MN
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CA
VA
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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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 12 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$1.1M
$448k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+50%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    2× · 2022–2024 · $526k · revenue +11%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +13%
  • CH
    Community Health Clinic of Butler County Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $130k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +63%
  • TW
    TOGETHER WE RISEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +52%
  • AA
    All Americans Vote
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%

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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Golden Tornado Scholastic 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.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%41%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%33%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
18/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $525,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $247,700 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC+1 more — $5,000 · EducationInternational Rescue Committee INC — $150,000 · InternationalInternational Res…THE CARTER CENTER INC — $125,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER…NEW ISRAEL FUND — $15,000 · International+1 more — $2,500 · InternationalGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $240,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSB…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $144,675 · Community ImprovementCommunity Health Clinic of Butler County Inc — $130,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTOGETHER WE RISE — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsAll Americans Vote — $100,000 · Civil RightsUNITED INITIATIVE TO CURE BRAIN CANCER — $25,350 · OtherTHE NEW ISRAEL FUND (NY) — $15,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon University — $10,000 · OtherJDRF WESTERN PA CHAPTER — $5,000 · OtherBRIDGE HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE — $5,000 · OtherMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $50,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $4,800 · Other+9 more — $11,100 · Other
Education$778,500International$292,500Food & Nutrition$240,000Community Improvement$144,675Health$141,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Civil Rights$100,000Other$126,250

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $525,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $247,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $240,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $144,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Health Clinic of Butler County Inc — $130,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTOGETHER WE RISE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAll Americans Vote — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $4,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN PARK VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1 — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGolden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCCANDLESS FRANKLIN PARK AMB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortland Museum of Art — $600 over 2y, 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.

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…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Roger & Brenda Gibson Family 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 · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 30 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.

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