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The Heinz Endowments

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85M
Granted FY2024still arriving
550
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$6.0M
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.

Arts & Culture$92MEducation$63MCommunity Improvement$40MEnvironment$40MPhilanthropy$38MHuman Services$33MPublic Benefit$13MHealth$11MOther$0
02FY2024 · 550 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $198k
  • $10k–50k141 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k293 grants · $31M
  • $250k+78 grants · $50M
$70,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$6,043,000
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$5,000,000
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$3,500,000
SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION$1,800,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500,000
SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION$1,250,000
RIVERLIFE$1,000,000
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC$1,000,000
T OF L INC$1,000,000
COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY THROUGH ITS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES$1,000,000
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE$1,000,000
THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$800,000
PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES$775,000
PITTSBURGH SCHOLAR HOUSE INC$750,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$750,000
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, $21.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $400k → 11%TRAINING AND EDUCATION FUND: $282k → 12%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $200k → 8%CHRIS WILSON FOUNDATION: $250k → 19%CASA SAN JOSE: $200k → 11%CHILD TRENDS INCORPORATED: $200k → 8%CASA SAN JOSE: $200k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $200k → 11%FOOTBRIDGE: $175k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $500k → 11%CENTER FOR VICTIMS: $150k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $500k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $400k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $200k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $175k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $150k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 11%THREE RIVERS YOUTH: $200k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $200k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $681k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $681k → 11%FOUNDATION OF HOPE INC: $400k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $250k → 11%FOUNDATION OF HOPE INC: $200k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $200k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $175k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $175k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $163k → 11%ALLIES FOR CHILDREN: $163k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $350k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $350k → 11%MOBILIFY SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $300k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $300k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $250k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $200k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $200k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $800k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $700k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $700k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $700k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $600k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $300k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $300k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $250k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $250k → 11%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $200k → 11%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $200k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $200k → 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

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$320M · 436 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

436 repeat relationships — 295 still active in FY2024, 141 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

436
241

Total granted

$320M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+14%

Still filing today

92%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M 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 ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20M · revenue +35%
  • PC
    PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20M · revenue +174%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -5%
  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF HOPE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue +33% · 39% of their budget
  • TC
    The Consortium for Public Educationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $577k · revenue +34%

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
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
2
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
3
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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4
Scenic Pittsburgh

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

Environment
5
Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association

The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…

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6
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
7
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
8
Pittsburgh Robotics Network

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

Community Improvement
9
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
10
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
11
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
12
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Mansmann Foundation. 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 backsteadyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Military Veterans SupportLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Food PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Affordable Housing Construc…Youth Mentoring ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Senior Support ServicesFaith-Based Social ServicesPublic Library OperationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Jewish Community Organizati…United Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersElementary Literacy Tutoring
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 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr17%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%3%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr17%17%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%7/677
the rest of the field
9%
7,122/77,485

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

631 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. 631 of the 754 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.

137
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
186
Early backer (in before they grew)
616/631
Grantees still filing
425/631
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $19,945,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $9,001,600 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INCAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $5,765,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL C…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,498,295 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTITUTEGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL — $4,285,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COU…+31 more — $32,971,005 · Arts & Culture+31 moreCarnegie Mellon University — $20,188,791 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversitySARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $7,952,950 · OtherSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATIONPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,257,591 · Other+69 more — $67,697,878 · Other+69 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $13,341,100 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUN…POISE FOUNDATION — $7,306,375 · PhilanthropyPOISE FOUNDATI…THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $5,804,310 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURGH…GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,415,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS OF…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,247,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY…THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,575,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBURGH…Leading to Movement — $1,410,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $2,665,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $2,694,500 · EnvironmentWOMEN FOR A…RIVERLIFE — $2,595,000 · EnvironmentRIVERLIFECITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE — $2,375,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FO…SUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE…Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct — $1,892,600 · EnvironmentSouthwest P…FRACTRACKER ALLIANCE — $1,455,000 · EnvironmentMOUNTAIN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $1,365,000 · EnvironmentPENNENVIRONMENT RESEARCH & POLICY CENTER INC — $1,320,000 · EnvironmentClean Air Council — $1,290,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDED STRATEGIES — $1,132,295 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $1,105,000 · Environment+19 more — $12,900,580 · Environment+19 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $11,889,519 · EducationUNIVERSITY…DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $2,755,600 · EducationDUQUESNE U…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $2,290,901 · EducationSYRACUSE U…CARLOW UNIVERSITY — $2,213,540 · EducationCARLOW UNI…Education Law Center - PA — $1,300,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH SCHOLAR HOUSE INC — $1,200,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $1,025,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH — $1,000,000 · Education+9 more — $5,577,592 · Education+9 morePittsburgh United — $3,957,820 · Community ImprovementHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC — $2,680,000 · Community ImprovementBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC — $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC — $1,374,750 · Community ImprovementUJAMAA COLLECTIVE — $1,144,500 · Community ImprovementCatapult Greater Pittsburgh — $1,138,975 · Community ImprovementTHE MANCHESTER CITIZENS CORPORATION — $965,000 · Community ImprovementPROMOTE PT — $871,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $795,000 · Community ImprovementTHE EQUITY IMPACT CENTER — $680,000 · Community Improvement+9 more — $4,895,928 · Community ImprovementCENTER OF LIFE — $4,999,832 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING — $3,279,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,991,978 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSE — $1,361,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,020,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS — $977,500 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $955,257 · Human ServicesALLIES FOR CHILDREN — $945,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM — $841,408 · Human ServicesCHILD TRENDS INC — $750,000 · Human Services+5 more — $2,525,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$77,465,900Other$100,097,210Philanthropy$39,763,785Environment$32,124,975Education$29,252,152Community Improvement$20,002,973Human Services$19,645,975

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 budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $20,188,791 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $19,945,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $13,341,100 over 5y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $11,889,519 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $9,001,600 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $7,952,950 over 5y, 46% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $7,306,375 over 5y, 38% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $5,804,310 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER — $5,765,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,498,295 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE — $4,999,832 over 5y, 40% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL — $4,285,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetPittsburgh United — $3,957,820 over 5y, 49% of budgetGRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,415,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE FORBES FUNDS — $3,315,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $3,279,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $3,247,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHSIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY — $3,078,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $2,755,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $2,694,500 over 5y, 74% of budgetHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC — $2,680,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetRIVERLIFE — $2,595,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $2,575,000 over 3y, 10% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $2,500,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetCITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE — $2,375,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $2,300,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $2,290,901 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOR ACTION INC — $2,250,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetRISING TIDE PARTNERS — $2,225,000 over 5y, 59% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $2,213,540 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $2,180,000 over 5y, 58% of budgetThe Rand Corporation — $2,160,045 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED — $2,141,250 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH — $2,000,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,991,978 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSouthwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct — $1,892,600 over 5y, 73% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc — $1,792,324 over 5y, 20% of budgetPITTSBURGH OPERA INC — $1,754,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC — $1,732,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTRYING TOGETHER — $1,683,506 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $1,555,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $1,520,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION — $1,515,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetBIKE SHARE PITTSBURGH INC — $1,500,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetHOSANNA HOUSE INC — $1,481,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $1,460,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetFRACTRACKER ALLIANCE — $1,455,000 over 5y, 40% of budgetLeading to Movement — $1,410,000 over 4y, 64% 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 Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER OF LIFE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Pittsburgh United ↗
  • Who funds GRANTMAKERS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE FORBES FUNDS ↗
  • Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • Who funds HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR PENNSYLVANIA'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds THE FRED ROGERS COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RESEARCH FOR ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds RISING TIDE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Projct ↗
  • Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗

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…Opportunity FoundationThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Buhl FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…Eden Hall FoundationThe Fine FoundationProgram to Aid Citize…Poise FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…
Hillman Family FoundationsPA264.3× affinity280 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · Opportunity Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Eden Hall Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · Poise Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm 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 Heinz Endowments 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 · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 29%
  • Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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How do I get to The Heinz Endowments?

Find your warmest path to The Heinz Endowments 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 754 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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