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Steelers Charities

To actively promote youth sports, social justice and other charitable endeavors.

$690k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$627kHuman Services$281kRecreation & Sports$220kFood & Nutrition$175kAnimals$83kPublic Benefit$79kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $663,295 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $689,775 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,480 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $84k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $191k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $388k
$37,767
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART ROONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$149,837
UNITED WAY$101,765
STEELERS CHARITIES- YOUTH FOOTBALL FUND$68,978
CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION$67,646
CANCER BRIDGES$38,903
UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER$38,903
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOODBANK$37,921
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$37,767
THE SALVATION ARMY$37,767
GUITARS FOR VETS$9,312
OPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION$9,312
SHADOW WARRIORS PROJECT$9,312
AVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE$9,312
CREATIVETS$9,312
GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS$9,312
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $33k → 16%SHADOW WARRIORS PROJECT: $9k → 9%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $10k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $27k → 16%IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $9k → 17%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $9k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $8k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS: $6k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH INC: $10k → 11%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

ME
WI
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
WV
TN
DC
OK
TX
FL

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 16 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
42

Total granted

$2.2M
$515k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AR
    ART ROONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    8× · 2017–2025 · $548k · revenue +76% · 89% of their budget
  • CN
    CHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH
    6× · 2017–2025 · $329k · revenue +71% · 32% of their budget
  • UG
    UPMC GROUP
    6× · 2019–2025 · $250k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • PP
    PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +20%
  • BO
    Best of the Batch Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -36%
  • TE
    THOMAS E STARLZ TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $48k

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.

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NextOp Inc

NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.

Public Benefit
2
Pittsburgh Hires Veterans

Providing one-on-one free support and aid to any active military members, including the national guard and reserves, and veterans of the u.s. military, searching for education, training and employment opportunity.

Employment
3
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
4
Partnership for Public Service Inc

Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…

Employment
5
About Face Veterans Against the War

We work to build a service-member and veteran led movement that ends militarism by transforming ourselves, military culture and american society.

Public Benefit
6
Amvets (American Veterans)

Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…

—
7
University of Pittsburgh

The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…

Education
8
Packages From Home

To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans

Philanthropy
9
Pittsburgh Business Group On Health

An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.

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10
Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc

Wounded veterans relief fund (wvrf), founded in 2009, is a veteran-led 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. our mission is to provide urgent financial assistance and critical dental care to florida's eligible wounded and disabled veterans.…

Human Services
11
Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh

Working in partnership with low-income elderly homeowners, veterans, and individuals with disabilities, their families, volunteers and community residents, we work to preserve and revitalize houses thus providing a community impact.…

Housing & Shelter
12
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Patriot Park Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports Booster Organi…Community Health CentersFood Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Classical Music EnsemblesUnited Way FederationsDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Development CentersAnimal Rescue and AdoptionLand Conservation Organizat…Veteran Support ServicesCancer Support Organizations
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 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr17%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr17%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
9%
7,128/78,114

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

42 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. 42 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ART ROONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $548,456 · OtherART ROONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDUPMC GROUP — $250,380 · OtherUPMC GROUPTHE SALVATION ARMY — $145,250 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYUPMC SPORTS CONCUSSION PROGRAM — $120,355 · OtherUPMC SPORTS CONCUSSION PROGRAMTHOMAS E STARLZ TRANSPLANTATION INSTITUTE — $48,290 · OtherPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $53,267 · Other+29 more — $234,355 · Other+29 moreUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $983,767 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDESTEELERS CHARITIES — $68,978 · PhilanthropySTEELERS CHARITIESBest of the Batch Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $40,312 · PhilanthropyThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $199,635 · HealthThe Susan G Kom…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $173,782 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSP…CANCER BRIDGES — $92,338 · HealthCANCER BRIDGESCancer Care Inc — $24,796 · Health+2 more — $19,000 · HealthCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH — $328,735 · EducationCHUCK NOLL…ADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE — $15,312 · Education+2 more — $11,000 · EducationGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $174,695 · Food & NutritionGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $83,251 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $25,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $10,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · Human ServicesSWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS — $9,312 · Human ServicesIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $8,531 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION — $28,151 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America — $20,000 · Public BenefitWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Public BenefitPATRIOT PARK FOUNDATION — $9,312 · Public BenefitGuitars For Vets Inc — $9,312 · Public Benefit
Other$1,400,353Philanthropy$1,143,057Health$509,551Education$355,047Food & Nutrition$174,695Human Services$167,094Public Benefit$79,275

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $983,767 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetART ROONEY SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $548,456 over 8y, 89% of budgetCHUCK NOLL FOUNDATION FOR BRAIN INJURY RESEARCH — $328,735 over 6y, 32% of budgetUPMC GROUP — $250,380 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $199,635 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $174,695 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $173,782 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES — $92,338 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC — $83,251 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSTEELERS CHARITIES — $68,978 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $53,267 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBest of the Batch Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION — $28,151 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Care Inc — $24,796 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUSA FOOTBALL INC — $20,061 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD — $16,917 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH FISHER HOUSE INC — $15,312 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetADVENTURES IN TRAINING WITH A PURPOSE — $15,312 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS BREAKFAST CLUB — $13,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRobins Home Inc — $9,312 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPATRIOT PARK FOUNDATION — $9,312 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCREATIVETS — $9,312 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC — $8,531 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROLLING THUNDER INC — $8,530 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetA SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENOVATING HOPE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,000 over 1y, 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…The United Way of Sou…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…Pirates CharitiesSnee-Reinhardt Charit…McElhattan FoundationEden Hall FoundationThe Grable FoundationEqt FoundationJames Frances McCandl…Fisa Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA32.4× affinity15 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 · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Pirates Charities · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · Fisa 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 Steelers Charities 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%6%23%51%90%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
    11report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Steelers Charities?

    Find your warmest path to Steelers Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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