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The Benter 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$14MArts & Culture$6.4MCommunity Improvement$3.9MEducation$2.7MRecreation & Sports$999kPublic Benefit$763kEnvironment$686kPhilanthropy$633kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $613k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$179k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC$800,000
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC$300,000
PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$180,000
GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PA$166,667
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES DBA PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST$150,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC DBA PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$125,000
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$121,600
PITTSBURGH OPERA INC$120,000
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC$93,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC DBA PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$90,000
PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY$80,000
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC$75,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC$75,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC$75,000
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$67,195
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 (FY18–25, $784k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CASA SAN JOSE: $25k → 11%SECOND AVENUE COMMONS INC: $50k → 11%YOUNG MEN & WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION & IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $15k → 11%YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $15k → 11%YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $15k → 11%YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $14k → 11%YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 11%YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTER: $4k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $25k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $20k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $20k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $15k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $15k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $10k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $75k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $29k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $100k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $100k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $15k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $5k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$30M · 67 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
40

Total granted

$30M
$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

  • IE
    IDSA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $7.0M · revenue +15% · 52% of their budget
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +224%
  • PD
    PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
    5× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +446%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $258k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
    one grant, 2018 · $258k
  • LH
    LAUREL HIGHLANDS COUNCIL FLAG PLAZA BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2024 · $200k

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
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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2
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…

Arts & Culture
3
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
4
Sustainable Pittsburgh

Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.

Environment
5
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
6
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Inc

The corporation advances excellence in the arts, including studio, media, and creative writing. to achieve its mission, the corporation provides equipment and facilities for individual artists, conducts educational programs, and stimulates…

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7
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
8
Pittsburgh Robotics Network

To accelerate the adopotion of robotic solutions by bridging this large and dynamic community to the world.

Community Improvement
9
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre

Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.

Arts & Culture
10
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

Pittsburgh center for creative reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.

Arts & Culture
11
Pittsburgh Technology Council

Membership organization formed to help tech companies succeed through a proven platform of business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. companies at all growth stages use the pittsburgh technology…

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12
Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Corning Dances and Company dba Corning Works. 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 backsteadyParks & Environmental Conse…Charitable TrustsSouthwest Pennsylvania Comm…Performing Arts Organizatio…Member Social ClubsDisability & Recovery Servi…Contemporary Arts Organizat…Higher Education Institutio…Pittsburgh Regional Develop…Pittsburgh Community Develo…Pittsburgh Community Develo…
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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%5%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr20%62%20–35yr16%13%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% 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 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/91
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,815

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

86 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. 86 of the 115 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
64/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IDSA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,031,900 · HealthIDSA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDAT…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDA…+2 more — $110,000 · HealthREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $1,763,264 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGA…PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC DBA PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $857,500 · OtherPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC DBA PITTSBUR…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN FOUNDATION — $600,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION …POINT PARK UNIVERSITY — $497,991 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH — $495,300 · OtherTHE FORBES FUNDS — $350,000 · OtherWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $448,890 · OtherBIKE PITTSBURGH INC — $387,500 · Other+58 more — $4,874,433 · Other+58 morePITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $1,027,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH OPERA …PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $785,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTUR…PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $773,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BALLET…QUANTUM THEATRE INC — $404,100 · Arts & CultureQUANTUM THEATRE I…PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $399,500 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH GLASS …PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION — $262,500 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $260,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $257,500 · Arts & CultureATTACK THEATRE INC — $177,500 · Arts & CultureCHATHAM BAROQUE INC — $176,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $588,250 · Arts & Culture+12 morePITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP — $2,966,900 · Community ImprovementPITTSBURGH …FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC — $115,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $130,000 · Community ImprovementTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $940,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $333,334 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $300,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $32,500 · PhilanthropyPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $670,000 · EducationSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $93,750 · EducationSPOTLIGHT PA — $75,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $75,000 · EducationSTEM CODING LAB INC — $50,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York — $50,000 · Education+5 more — $47,500 · EducationPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $850,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$10,141,900Other$10,274,878Arts & Culture$5,110,850Community Improvement$3,211,900Philanthropy$1,605,834Education$1,061,250Recreation & Sports$855,500

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 budgetIDSA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $7,031,900 over 4y, 52% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP — $2,966,900 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $1,027,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $940,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY — $850,500 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $785,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $773,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $670,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY — $497,991 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH — $448,890 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC — $404,100 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $399,500 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetBIKE PITTSBURGH INC — $387,500 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetTHE FORBES FUNDS — $350,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $333,334 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST — $329,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION — $262,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $260,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $257,500 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetReading Ready Pittsburgh — $227,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $205,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $190,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROW PITTSBURGH — $184,500 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC — $177,500 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCHATHAM BAROQUE INC — $176,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetNEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $160,000 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $160,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc — $159,750 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $142,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF ASYLUM — $133,800 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetRIVERLIFE — $120,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC — $115,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $113,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHELLO NEIGHBOR — $105,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $93,750 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $90,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT — $80,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSPOTLIGHT PA — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC — $65,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJUST HARVEST EDUCATION FUND — $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLICSOURCE — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVENTURE OUTDOORS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

  • Who funds IDSA EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROPEL SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKE PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORBES FUNDS ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD ↗
  • Who funds Reading Ready Pittsburgh ↗
  • Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds ATTACK THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM BAROQUE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗

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.

Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsRichard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Buhl FoundationThe Fine FoundationEqt FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…Staunton Farm Foundat…Upmc GroupThe Burke Foundation
Hillman Family FoundationsPA120.5× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Eqt Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Upmc Group · The Burke 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 The Benter 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 · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    30report 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 115 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.

    Source object · view filing

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