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The Grable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
361
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2020–2024.

Education$29MArts & Culture$14MPhilanthropy$5.7MYouth Development$4.8MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.4MEnvironment$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 361 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $215k
  • $10k–50k263 grants · $5.4M
  • $50k–250k55 grants · $4.3M
  • $250k+9 grants · $3.5M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$350M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT$1,000,000
THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$410,160
ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT$350,000
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH$350,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$300,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$300,000
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC$260,000
PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION$250,000
PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION$250,000
ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT$200,000
SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC$181,901
KNOWLEDGEWORKS FOUNDATION$168,436
NEIGHBORHOOD NORTH MUSEUM OF PLAY$150,000
TRYING TOGETHER$145,000
NEW SUN RISING$125,000
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 (FY20–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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: $50k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $50k → 10%HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 11%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $30k → 10%HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $65k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $50k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $50k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $50k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH DBA JEWISH FAMILY AND CO: $30k → 11%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $30k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH DBA JEWISH FAMILY AND CO: $30k → 11%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $30k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%UNITED SOMALI BANTU OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $50k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $50k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $30k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $30k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $30k → 11%MT ARARAT COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 11%MT ARARAT COMMUNITY ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $30k → 11%JEREMIAH'S PLACE: $30k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $30k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $30k → 11%RIVERVIEW CHILDREN'S CENTER: $35k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $40k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $40k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $50k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $40k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $40k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $125k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $35k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $30k → 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
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
AR
TN
NC
DC
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63M · 304 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

304 repeat relationships — 231 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

304
89

Total granted

$63M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $932k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • GO
    GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4.5M · revenue +163% · 71% of their budget
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +41%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +6%
  • WP
    WESTERN PA LEARNING 2025 ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $497k
  • AR
    ALLEGHENY RIVERTRAIL PARK (SEE ASPINWALL RIVERFRONT PARK INC)
    one grant, 2023 · $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 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
2
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
3
The Regional Opportunity Center D/B/a Vibrant Pittsburgh

Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.

Arts & Culture
4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
6
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
7
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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8
Scenic Pittsburgh

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

Environment
9
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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10
Allegheny Conference On Community Development

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…

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11
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
12
Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project and the most unlike its peers is Christophers Kitchen. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr16%22%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr19%41%20–35yr16%25%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%3/388
the rest of the field
9%
1,269/14,775

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

355 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. 355 of the 452 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
101
Early backer (in before they grew)
347/355
Grantees still filing
241/355
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNIT — $11,452,586 · OtherALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNITCarnegie Mellon University — $1,283,254 · OtherTRYING TOGETHER — $1,025,500 · Other+78 more — $12,728,257 · Other+78 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $2,445,640 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTECHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $1,193,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PI…PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $1,100,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRU…THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $900,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANYSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC — $804,609 · Arts & CultureSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS I…ATTACK THEATRE INC — $448,000 · Arts & Culture+35 more — $5,919,370 · Arts & Culture+35 moreGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $4,495,953 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS O…THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURG…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $547,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WA…+6 more — $712,966 · Philanthropy+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,101,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY …A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $712,000 · EducationA SCHOOLS P…SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $630,514 · EducationSAINT VINCE…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $380,100 · EducationCARNEGIE LI…STUDENT U — $370,000 · EducationSTUDENT USTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $315,000 · EducationThe History Co-Lab Inc — $260,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $250,000 · EducationKnowledgeworks Foundation — $229,286 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $225,000 · Education+16 more — $1,952,000 · Education+16 moreTIDES CENTER — $344,195 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING — $331,000 · Human ServicesALLIES FOR CHILDREN — $280,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $222,500 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION — $215,000 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION — $210,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGH — $180,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY — $170,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF LIFE — $157,500 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $150,000 · Human ServicesHELLO NEIGHBOR — $141,200 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $140,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $135,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE — $125,000 · Human Services+8 more — $696,000 · Human ServicesTHE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA — $953,882 · Youth DevelopmentALLEGHENY PARTNERS FOR OUT-OF- SCHOOL TIME APOST INC — $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN — $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTHPLACES — $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentACH Clear Pathways — $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentALIQUIPPA IMPACT INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTING CHAMPIONS — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentPartnership for Appalachian Girls Education — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentReading Ready Pittsburgh — $107,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentSWINGPALS INC — $105,000 · Youth Development+5 more — $390,500 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $600,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $514,090 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $430,000 · HealthPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $205,000 · HealthMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Health
Other$26,489,597Arts & Culture$12,810,619Philanthropy$7,055,919Education$6,425,650Human Services$3,497,395Youth Development$3,026,882Health$1,829,090

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $4,495,953 over 4y, 71% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $2,445,640 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $1,283,254 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH — $1,193,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,101,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTRYING TOGETHER — $1,025,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetTHE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA — $953,882 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $900,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC — $804,609 over 5y, 51% of budgetA SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $712,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $630,514 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Consortium for Public Education — $575,500 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $547,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $514,090 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC — $448,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $430,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA — $420,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $400,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $380,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTUDENT U — $370,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $358,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $344,195 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $331,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetALLEGHENY PARTNERS FOR OUT-OF- SCHOOL TIME APOST INC — $325,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSTOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $315,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD — $285,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION — $280,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetALLIES FOR CHILDREN — $280,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $275,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN — $275,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTEAM PENNSYLVANIA FOUNDATION — $270,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $270,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetThe History Co-Lab Inc — $260,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD NORTH MUSEUM OF PLAY — $252,500 over 5y, 49% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $250,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC — $235,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetAssemble Inc — $230,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetKnowledgeworks Foundation — $229,286 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $222,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $216,542 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION — $215,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $212,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $205,000 over 5y, 4.9% 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 GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds TRYING TOGETHER ↗
  • Who funds THE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA ↗
  • Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SLB RADIO PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Consortium for Public Education ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATTACK THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT U ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHENY PARTNERS FOR OUT-OF- SCHOOL TIME APOST INC ↗
  • Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗

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 Heinz EndowmentsRichard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Buhl FoundationEden Hall FoundationMcElhattan FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…The United Way of Sou…McCune Foundation Pnc…Opportunity FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…
The Heinz EndowmentsPA252× affinity169 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Opportunity Foundation · The Jack Buncher 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 Grable 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Classroom Champions Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
96report 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

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How do I get to The Grable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Grable Foundation 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 452 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines