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The Clark Hunter Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $117,000 |
| SOMERSET HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $28,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET | $28,000 |
| LAUREL ARTS | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $28,000 |
| FRICK ART HISTORICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| SOMERSET AREA MINISTRIES INC | $11,730 |
| MANCHESTER CRAFTSMAN GUILD | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| THE LITERACY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| THE AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PGH | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $10,000 |
| PITTSBURGH ARTS LECTURES | $10,000 |
| MAGEE WOMENS RESEARCH INST FNDTN | $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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
67 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH3× · 2022–2024 · $357k · revenue +11%- LALAUREL ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +31%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY3× · 2022–2024 · $86k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATone grant, 2021 · $33k
- SDSAN DIEGO PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FAFRICK ARE HISTORICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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 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,…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.
Presenting diverse, quality performing & visual art; managing arts facilities; advancing arts education; and creating & developing pittsburgh's cultural district as a destination for entertainment, business, and urban living, thus…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Richland Youth Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 96 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds LAUREL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOMERSET COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GREENFIELD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS' GLAUCOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PACE SCHOOL ↗
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.
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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 Clark Hunter 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Learning Knoll Inc — 40% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
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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