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Rossin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$5.7MArts & Culture$3.2MEducation$2.9MPhilanthropy$1.8MReligion$867kPublic Benefit$198kHuman Services$145kHousing & Shelter$133kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $127k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$1,125,000
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$716,250
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$283,750
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$250,000
COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY$50,000
ST VINCENT COLLEGE$40,000
FOLDS OF HONOR OF WESTERN PA$40,000
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$25,000
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE$12,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH FOOD BANK$10,000
BEATRICE INSTITUTE$5,000
THE PITTSBURGH PROJECT$5,000
THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION$1,000
PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM$1,000
LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $316k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MHY FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $5k → 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $25k → 16%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%MYH FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $10k → 14%THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%MYH FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $5k → 14%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $10k → 9%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $5k → 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $250 → 11%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $25k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $25k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $10k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $10k → 12%PRESBYTERIAN SENIOR CARE: $100k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $50k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
SD
IN
PA
CT
CA
WV
VA
TN
DC
FL
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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 43 repeat orgs$784k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
33

Total granted

$13M
$779k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+15%

Still filing today

72%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthInternationalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +41%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +66%
  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $430k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT TITUSVILLE
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • PS
    Presbyterian SeniorCaregraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +60%
  • SC
    ST CLAIR HEALTH CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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.

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
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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2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
4
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
5
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
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
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
8
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
9
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
10
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Family Hospice and Palliative Care. 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

53 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. 53 of the 80 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $4,017,128 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSB…+5 more: $11,850 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH: $1,512,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PIT…WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $335,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN C…COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $300,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OU…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT TITUSVILLE: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH A…Individual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE UTD PREBY CHRC UTD STS AMER: $207,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEM…COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $125,000 · Other+36 more: $647,794 · Other+36 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $2,735,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $225,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRU…UPPER CUMBERLAND BROADCAST COUNCIL: $135,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $61,000 · Arts & CultureLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $430,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COL…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PIT…FOLDS OF HONOR WESTERN PA: $180,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR WE…SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $150,000 · EducationSDSM&T CENTER FOR…WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $104,000 · Education+5 more: $87,500 · EducationTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $1,770,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURG…Presbyterian SeniorCare: $100,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $70,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $61,250 · Human ServicesPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $25,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMHY FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 · Human Services+2 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$4,028,978Other$3,626,794Arts & Culture$3,156,000Education$2,401,500Philanthropy$1,770,000Human Services$315,750Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $4,017,128 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $2,735,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $1,770,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $430,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR WESTERN PA: $180,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetSDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUPPER CUMBERLAND BROADCAST COUNCIL: $135,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $104,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian SeniorCare: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $61,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $25,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $21,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMHY FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLEGHENY INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH: $8,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNoah Angelici Hope Foundation: $5,100 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Hospice and Palliative Care: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOGLEBAY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,645 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD OPTION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERS PLACE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH HISTORY & LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR WESTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds SDSM&T CENTER FOR ALUMNI RELATIONS & ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds UPPER CUMBERLAND BROADCAST COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Presbyterian SeniorCare ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CITY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE LINSLY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FORBES AVENUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗

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…The United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationHillman Family Founda…Allegheny FoundationMassey Charitable Tru…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Burke FoundationThe Burke Family Foun…The Heinz EndowmentsClapp G H Decd Char a…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA49.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Allegheny Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Morton Plant Mease Health Care Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
15report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rossin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rossin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 80 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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