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The Pittsburgh Childrens Foundation Inc

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.

$779k
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Religion$3.0MFood & Nutrition$372kInternational$186kHuman Services$169kPhilanthropy$57kArts & Culture$50kRecreation & Sports$47kPublic Benefit$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $455k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Biblica$155,000
Living Waters$150,000
Jesus Online Ministries$100,000
Bible League International$50,000
Food for the Hungry$35,664
Pegnancy Resource Center SWFC$26,000
MJAA$26,000
Jewish Voice Ministries$21,400
Jesus Films Project$17,000
Food for the Poor$15,000
CRU$13,500
Voice of the Martyrs$10,000
American Bible Society$10,000
Aarons Hands Ministries$10,000
Feed the Hungry$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YAL Foundation: $2k → 8%AMAC Foundation: $250 → 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $2k → 14%Family Reearch Council: $1k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%Children of the NAtions: $10k → 10%Jamie Codial Hall Foundation: $3k → 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $1k → 14%amie Codial Hall Foundation: $3k → 10%Hekima Place: $5k → 11%Hekima Place: $5k → 11%Hekima Place: $750 → 11%Light of Life Ministries: $3k → 11%Vision Appalachia: $6k → 11%Vision Appalachia: $5k → 11%Vision Appalachia: $5k → 11%Vision Appalachia: $3k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
ID
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MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
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TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
GA
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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.
$3.9M · 54 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
41

Total granted

$3.9M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+9%

Still filing today

48%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BI
    BIBLICA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +80%
  • CH
    CARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +3%
  • LG
    LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $44k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • AB
    American Bibe Society
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • PG
    PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +9%

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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

2
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
3
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
4
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
5
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

7
World Orphans

World orphans vision is to empower the church to care for orphans and vulnerable families. we equip, inspire, and mobilize the church to care for orphans and vulnerable children. churches engaged. children restored. communities transformed…

8
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

9
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
10
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
11
Food for the Hungry Inc

Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…

International
12
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yal Foundation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Food PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%74%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,495

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

58 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIBLICA INC — $1,245,000 · ReligionBIBLICA INCJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $571,000 · ReligionJESUSONLINE MINISTRIESLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS — $180,000 · ReligionLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS+11 more — $157,040 · Religion+11 moreJewish Voice Ministries — $323,050 · OtherJewish Voice MinistriesFood for the Hungry — $271,359 · OtherFood for the HungryBIBLE LEAGUE — $150,750 · OtherBIBLE LEAGUEPegnancy Resource Center SWFC — $118,650 · OtherPegnancy Resource Center SWFCIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNAPLES CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $67,000 · OtherFirst Alliance Church — $65,000 · Other+64 more — $588,057 · Other+64 moreFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $72,000 · InternationalCARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $60,000 · InternationalAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $6,000 · International+7 more — $19,980 · InternationalVISION APPALACHIA — $19,000 · Human ServicesHEKIMA PLACE INC — $10,750 · Human ServicesAARONS HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $10,000 · Human ServicesJAMIE CORDIAL HALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,500 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $2,500 · Human Services+4 more — $3,800 · Human ServicesLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC — $44,000 · Philanthropy412 Foundation — $2,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,500 · PhilanthropyMIAA MO INC — $42,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $500 · Recreation & SportsStudents for Life of America Inc — $13,600 · Civil Rights
Religion$2,153,040Other$1,683,866International$157,980Human Services$64,550Philanthropy$48,000Recreation & Sports$43,000Civil Rights$13,600

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 budgetBIBLICA INC — $1,245,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJESUSONLINE MINISTRIES — $571,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetLIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS — $180,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $72,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC — $60,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC — $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMIAA MO INC — $42,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBibles For The World — $41,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBEYOND SURVIVAL MINISTRIES INC — $34,440 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $26,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVISION APPALACHIA — $19,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc — $13,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Help — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEKIMA PLACE INC — $10,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAARONS HANDS MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN OF THE NATIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ACROSS AMERICA — $8,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEPROSY MISSIONS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Workers Association Inc — $6,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPrecept — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMIE CORDIAL HALL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDr James Dobson Family Institute — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSEDALE FOOD PANTRY — $3,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILKINSBURG COMMUNITY MINISTRY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $1,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING IN LIBERTY — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread For The World Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BIBLICA INC
  • Who funds JESUSONLINE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds LIVING WATERS PUBLICATIONS
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC
  • Who funds CARING HEARTS MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds LESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC
  • Who funds MIAA MO INC
  • Who funds Bibles For The World
  • Who funds BEYOND SURVIVAL MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds COALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds VISION APPALACHIA
  • Who funds Students for Life of America Inc
  • Who funds World Help
  • Who funds HEKIMA PLACE INC
  • Who funds AARONS HANDS MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds PHOENIX GOSPEL MISSION

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.

Christian Community Foundation IncCO20.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · From His Hand Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust

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 Pittsburgh Childrens 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Pittsburgh Childrens Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pittsburgh Childrens Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 113 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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