· Private foundation
The Colonna Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $155,000 |
| PITTSBURGH OPERA | $6,000 |
| MCDONOGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA | $1,615 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH FOODBANK | $765 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TX HILL COUNTRY | $724 |
| RALPHSTOCK INC | $500 |
| AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $400 |
| CRU | $250 |
| CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ST LOUISE DE MARILLAC SCHOOL | $200 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $259) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $508k · revenue +69%
- MSMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2025 · $176k · revenue +57%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
Funded once
The President and Trustees of Colby Collegeone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -12%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $3k
- JFjewish federation of pittsburghone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 105 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FRICK ART & HISTORICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Interim Ministry Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF AT&T INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · James and Melanie Crockard Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Colonna Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colonna Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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