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The Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh

The jewish healthcare foundation offers a unique brand of activist philanthropy to advance healthcare innovation, advocacy, collaboration, and education in the interest of better health.

$4.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$11MPhilanthropy$8.0MHuman Services$4.7MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$575kCommunity Improvement$200kEnvironment$190kCivil Rights$65kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$2.9M
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$100,883
Median grant
2
States reached
$179M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$1,000,000
ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$750,000
INTERNAL PROGRAM (ENGAGING SENIORS AT RISK FOR OR WITH EARLY COGNITIVE DEC)$260,449
INTERNAL PROGRAM (REGIONAL AUTONOMOUS PATIENT SAFETY)$212,114
INTERNAL PROGRAM (ACHIEVING AFFORDABILITY)$210,000
INTERNAL PROGRAM (PREGNANCY FULL COURT PRESS)$200,394
INTERNAL PROGRAM (ADOLESCENT HEALTH INITIATIVE)$177,670
INTERNAL PROGRAM (HEALTHCARE SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE)$173,464
INTERNAL PROGRAM (HEALTH CARE SAFETY COMPETITION)$160,142
INTERNAL PROGRAM (WOMEN AGING AND INEQUITIES IN HC)$156,063
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$150,000
INTERNAL PROGRAM (JHF AIDS FREE PITTSBURGH)$140,439
INTERNAL PROGRAM (STUDY TOUR TO JAPAN)$135,579
JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE$122,036
INTERNAL PROGRAM (TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS IN PATIENT SAFETY DOCUMENTARY)$100,883
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 (FY17–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2.5M → 11%FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $260k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $200k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $194k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $175k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $158k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $129k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $122k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $122k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $100k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $100k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $70k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $51k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $100k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $182k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $113k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING RENAISSANCE: $68k → 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.

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.
$19M · 16 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$19M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+22%

Still filing today

94%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +97%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT
    4× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +32%
  • AC
    ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • MR
    MAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +3%
  • TI
    TRWIB INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    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
Point Park University

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…

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2
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
3
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
4
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
5
Pittsburgh Business Group On Health

An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.

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6
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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7
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
8
Delaware Valley University

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…

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9
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
10
Greater Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc

Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.

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11
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.

Health
12
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Presbyterian SeniorCare. 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 backsteadyOncology and Palliative Car…Jewish Community Organizati…Business & Industry Associa…Disability & Behavioral Hea…Senior Affordable HousingYouth and Family ServicesIndependent Charter SchoolsEmergency Assistance & Basi…Parks and Environmental Con…
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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%3%<5yr12%6%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr21%22%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr21%8%20–35yr16%42%35–55yr16%43%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
8%
763/9,870

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

34 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. 34 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH — $10,444,999 · HealthTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBU…+5 more — $742,000 · Health+5 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $7,350,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PI…THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $544,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN …+1 more — $60,000 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT — $3,045,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN AND WOME…JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $1,219,920 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION…THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $280,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIR…+2 more — $150,000 · Human ServicesALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $1,294,000 · OtherALLEGHENY CO…Carnegie Mellon University — $550,000 · OtherCarnegie Mel…NEHI INC — $320,000 · OtherNEHI INCHIGHMARK HEALTH — $250,000 · OtherHIGHMARK HEA…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $200,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL…INNOVATION WORKS INC — $160,000 · Other+7 more — $435,000 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $868,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $225,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH JEWISH PUBLICATION & EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $125,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLICSOURCE — $125,000 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA — $75,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTRWIB INC — $200,000 · Community Improvement
Health$11,186,999Philanthropy$7,954,000Human Services$4,694,920Other$3,209,000Education$1,118,000Arts & Culture$575,000Community Improvement$200,000

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 budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH — $10,444,999 over 8y, 12% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $7,350,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT — $3,045,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $1,294,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $1,219,920 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $868,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $544,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION — $327,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEHI INC — $320,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMAGEE-WOMENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $280,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH COMMUNITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION — $225,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTRWIB INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINNOVATION WORKS INC — $160,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICSOURCE — $125,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPresbyterian SeniorCare — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestern Pennsylvania Fund for Choic — $100,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND dba JEWISH ASSISTANCE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetVENTURE OUTDOORS INC — $90,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetACADEMYHEALTH — $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES USA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEADINGAGE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …Richard King Mellon F…Fisa FoundationThe Fine FoundationEden Hall FoundationThe United Way of Sou…The Heinz EndowmentsEqt FoundationUpmc GroupThe Edwin J and Barba…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA32× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Fisa Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz 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 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh 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 · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report 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.

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 36 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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