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The Miramare 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILYAID | $250,000 |
| JUST A START | $250,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $150,000 |
| FAMILYLINKS | $150,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUMS | $115,000 |
| RIVERLIFE | $110,000 |
| THE CENTER THAT CARES | $100,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HAVEN | $100,000 |
| KIDS VOICE | $100,000 |
| MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| LITERACY PITTSBURGH | $75,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PROMISE | $25,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $380k) 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.
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 +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 16 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC5× · 2020–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +82%
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC2× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +53%
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- HHHOSANNA HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -61%
- CCCAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -99%
- MFMIRAMARE FOUNDATION UAD 81706one grant, 2024 · $150k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Facing History & Ourselves Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Caritas Community Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 51 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 FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOSANNA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSVOICE ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER THAT CARES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON GERMANY INC ↗
- Who funds The Caritas Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds Tilting Futures Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN FIELD ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL 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 · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Boston Foundation Inc · Wi Patterson Charitable Fund · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
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 Miramare 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cambridge College Inc — 1% 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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