· Public charity
Garden Club of Allegheny County
Promote greater knowledge of horticulture, stimulate interest in conservation and historic preservation, encourage community and environmental education, civic planning and planting programs
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $99,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $107,832 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,332 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY | $22,200 |
| PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN | $20,000 |
| ALLEGHENY RIVER TRAIL PARK | $20,000 |
| Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens | $16,100 |
| UNION AID SOCIETY | $7,700 |
| Allegheny County Parks Foundation | $7,500 |
| PERRY HILLTOP CITIZENS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY2× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +10%
- ARAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc2× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +241%
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CLCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH - CARRICK BRANCHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue +70%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +238%
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.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
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,…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The Allegheny County Conservation District is an urban conservation district that engages and leads through partnerships, innovation, and implementation to conserve, promote, and improve Allegheny Countys natural resources.
The mission of Central Pennsylvania Conservancy (CPC) is to acquire, preserve, and protect local land and natural resources in a five-county, South-Central PA region. Our vision is to create a local network of permanently protected and…
Fairmount park conservancy brings parks to life. the conservancy works with the city of philadelphia and its communities to steward our parks and nurture our shared environment, cultural resources and public health. the conservancy leads…
Founded in 1995 to coordinate the completion of the great allegheny passage, a 150-mile non-motorized path connecting pittsburgh and cumberland, maryland, the great allegheny passage conservancy promotes the great allegheny passage and…
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
To improve the ecological health of Pierce Park in the City of Flint
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Pease Park Conservancy works to restore, enhance and maintain Pease Park for the sustainable use and enjoyment of all
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and the most unlike its peers is Union Aid Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds Union Aid Society ↗
- Who funds Perry Hilltop CItizens Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOMEWOOD CEMETERY HISTORICAL FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROW PITTSBURGH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Allegheny Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · The Simpson Family Foundation U/A Dtd 10/19/1999 · Fleischner Family Charitable Foundation · The Burke Family 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 Garden Club of Allegheny County 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.
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.