· Private foundation
The Peirce Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $557k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENATOR JOHN HEINZ HISTORY CENTER | $500,000 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $427,000 |
| ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY | $408,241 |
| CARLOW UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BOTANIC GARDEN | $205,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $201,500 |
| LAUGHLIN CHILDRENS CENTER | $100,000 |
| URBAN IMPACT FUND | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY | $43,000 |
| MANCHESTER BIDWELL | $25,000 |
| MUSIC CLUB | $10,000 |
| FERN HOLLOW NATURE CENTER | $5,750 |
| HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER | $5,600 |
| WINGS 4 VETS | $5,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
55 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +23%
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2020–2024 · $707k · revenue +174%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TKTHE KISKI SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +41%
- HIHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGHone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8%
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…
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,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
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…
As a designated national and state heritage area, susquehanna heritage corporation works to raise awareness and appreciation of the cultural and economic value of the susquehanna riverlands, and preserve, enhance and celebrate the area's…
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…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Orca Conservancy. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 78 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 DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Botanic Garden ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE KISKI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE FOR FAMILIES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FERN HOLLOW NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds QUAKER VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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.
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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 Peirce Family Foundation Inc 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.