· Private foundation
The Jack Buncher 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 $10k41 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k137 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+20 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DIST-LEADERSHIP | $2,500,000 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-ENDOWMENT FOR CMMTY | $1,500,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DIST-SZARVAS | $1,000,000 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-ISRAEL EMERGENCY | $1,000,000 |
| JFED OF GR PGH - MISC | $1,000,000 |
| BUNCHER(JACK G) CHARITABLE FUND FOR THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $500,000 |
| BUNCHER(JACK G) CHARITABLE FUND FOR THE UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION | $500,000 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-ANNUAL CAMPAIGN PLDGE | $500,000 |
| BUNCHER(JACK G) CHARITABLE FUND FOR THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BUNCHER(JACK G) CHARITABLE FUND FOR CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| BUNCHER(JACK G) CHARITABLE FUND FOR THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION | $500,000 |
| CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY - JBF PLAZA | $500,000 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-BUNCHER LEADERSHIP | $418,500 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-BUNCHER LEADERSHIP | $418,500 |
| JFED OF GR PGH-BUNCHER LEADERSHIP | $418,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $655k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
168 repeat relationships — 82 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 118 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17M 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
- CLCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH4× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +7%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK4× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +83%
- ACAllegheny County Library Association4× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- JOJFed of Gr Pgh-Israel Emergencyone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
- CMCarnegie Mellon University - Technionone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- BGBuncher(Jack G) Charitable Fund for The United Jewish Federation of Pittsburghone grant, 2018 · $500k
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 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…
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hyman Family 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
215 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. 215 of the 442 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
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
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.
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Fine Foundation · Upmc Group · Allegheny 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 Jack Buncher 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.
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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