· Private foundation
The Mascaro Family Foundation
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 $10k10 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $775k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $225,000 |
| UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER | $200,000 |
| SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $40,600 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PSU CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT & ENGINEERING PROGRAM | $20,000 |
| ALS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION | $13,400 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ALBY BREISINGER SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 PITTSBURGH6× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +44%- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +135%
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA3× · 2018–2025 · $232k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BEAVER COUNTY (CCBC) FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CCCASEY'S CLUBHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +16%
- TSTHE SISTER THEA BOWMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
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 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,…
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 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 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…
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…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
The pennsylvania chamber of business and industry is the largest broad-based business association in pennsylvania. thousands of members throughout the commonwealth employ greater than 50 percent of pennsylvania's private workforce.…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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.
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 39 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 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.
63 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. 63 of the 113 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CCBC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALS Association Western Pennsylvania Chapter ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CASEY'S CLUBHOUSE ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater PA and West Virginia Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NEPA 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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Buhl Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Peter C Dozzi Family Foundation Aka Eugene Dozzi Charitable Foundation · The Cigna Group 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 Mascaro Family 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
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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