· Private foundation
The Leonard a and Mary Jane Schafer
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CRAFTON HEIGHTS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| IUP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| KING SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $7,825 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE MISSION | $7,150 |
| ROTARY CLUB | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL LINKS | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| NASH EDUCATION | $3,000 |
| WOMEN INVESTING IN SECURITY & EDUCATION | $3,000 |
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, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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
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 +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +44%- KSKING SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +61%
- GOGOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAone grant, 2017 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHWESTERN PAone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…
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,…
Pittsburgh regional healthcare initiative's goal is to provide clinicians and institutions with the training and tools to dramatically improve patient safety, healthcare quality and the cost reimbursement system through reductions in…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Adagio health promotes the health of women, men and children, with a focus on women, their families and their communities, by providing health and nutrition services and related educational programs throughout the commonwealth of…
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…
The organization advocates with, empowers, and supports people with disabilities and their families throughout their lives.
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
To advocate for and provide services to pennsylvania's hospitals and health systems to advance high-quality accessible and financially sustainable health care.
See schedule oair's mission is to generate and use rigorous evidence that contributes to a better, more equitable world.air's vision is to be a premier research, evaluation, and technical assistance organization, guided by principles of…
Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue and the most unlike its peers is Days for Girls International. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 52 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 THE FOUNDATION FOR INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (IUP) ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds Nash Education Corporation ↗
- Who funds WOMEN INVESTING IN SECURITY AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Honduras Hope Mission ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOSTERCAT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CONNECTION OF PA ↗
- Who funds OFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF SOUTHWESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds PAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Noah Angelici Hope Foundation ↗
- Who funds TC OPEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Edward B Dunlap Jr Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Leonard a and Mary Jane Schafer 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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