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The Pittsburgh Foundation

Established in 1945, THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the united states.

$68M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,132
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$2.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$117MArts & Culture$55MHuman Services$45MHealth$43MPhilanthropy$27MReligion$27MCommunity Improvement$21MYouth Development$15MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1132 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1,132 grants below total $63,995,299 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $67,721,190 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,725,891 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k244 grants · $1.8M
  • $10k–50k584 grants · $12M
  • $50k–250k258 grants · $27M
  • $250k+46 grants · $23M
$18,634
Median grant
37
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$2,414,272
THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE$1,343,837
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$1,209,399
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH$878,397
PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$788,449
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA$767,441
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$702,331
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$691,911
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$659,116
BEAVER COUNTY MARCELLUS AWARENESS COMMUNITY$631,534
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$627,786
NEW BRIGHTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT$578,000
HERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION$567,887
SEWICKLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY$565,232
NEW SUN RISING$535,073
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 (FY17–24, $35.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $250k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $337k → 14%NORTHERN AREA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY: $207k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER OF BEAVER COUNTY: $500k → 10%NEW SUN RISING: $535k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $309k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $287k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $257k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $229k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $384k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $335k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $291k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $257k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $227k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $217k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $345k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $260k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $236k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $216k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $239k → 11%VINTAGE: $230k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $209k → 11%VINTAGE: $204k → 11%JUST MEDIATION PITTSBURGH: $258k → 11%EAT N PARK HOSPITALITY GROUP FOUNDATION: $200k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $227k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM PITTSBURGH: $284k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $244k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $217k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $212k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $201k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PITTSBURGH: $298k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $230k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $222k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN: $315k → 11%LOCALLY GROWN AKA COMMUNITY FORGE: $200k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $246k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $222k → 11%BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $214k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $381k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $336k → 11%ACCULTURATION FOR JUSTICE ACCESS & PEACE OUTREACH (AJAPO): $275k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES OF PGH: $248k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES OF PGH: $240k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $227k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $223k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH INC: $223k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $213k → 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

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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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$385M · 1554 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

1554 repeat relationships — 873 still active in FY2024, 681 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1554
291

Total granted

$385M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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 PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +44%
  • TP
    THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.4M · revenue +37%
  • CI
    CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $547k · revenue +54%
  • HT
    Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $301k · revenue +606%
  • RU
    Roosevelt University
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -14%

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
Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education
2
William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education
3
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
4
Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.

Education
5
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education
6
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other nfp entities.

Community Improvement
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Fighting hunger, improving lives, strengthening communities.

Food & Nutrition
8
Philadelphia Industrial Development

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
9
Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children

Pennyslvania partnerships for children is a strong, effective, and trusted voice for improving the health, education, and well being of the children and youth in pennsylvania.

Youth Development
10
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
11
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment
12
Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association

The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Goucher College. 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 Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterLgbtq+ Community SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsMilitary Veterans SupportDomestic Violence ServicesSenior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Youth CampsEquine Therapy ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Social ServicesCommunity Food PantriesYouth Mentoring ProgramsAddiction Recovery ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…School Parent OrganizationsYouth Development CentersYouth Development ServicesSchool District FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity FoundationsLocal History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Affordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Women & Girls Leadership De…United Way AffiliatesElementary Literacy TutoringFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity Foundations
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 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr17%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%55/2,765
the rest of the field
9%
7,083/75,397

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

1543 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. 1543 of the 2,000 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.

179
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
424
Early backer (in before they grew)
1481/1543
Grantees still filing
1047/1543
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $31,646,387 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $3,556,745 · EducationSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $2,933,795 · EducationSewickley Public Library — $2,807,356 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $2,396,476 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,096,344 · Education+20 more — $16,687,829 · Education+20 moreALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES — $6,267,618 · OtherALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF …PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE UTD PREBY CHRC UTD STS AMER — $5,672,251 · OtherPITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY…Carnegie Mellon University — $4,506,137 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityTHE FORBES FUNDS — $3,510,039 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $2,689,051 · OtherGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $4,491,690 · OtherGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FO…+60 more — $44,013,082 · Other+60 moreCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,379,918 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INSTIT…DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE — $5,027,109 · Arts & CultureDAISY WILSON AR…PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $2,706,268 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMP…PUBLICSOURCE — $1,830,578 · Arts & Culture1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $1,693,955 · Arts & CultureMARIDON MUSEUM — $1,589,335 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $1,399,441 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA — $1,274,763 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $1,253,390 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $13,442,129 · Arts & Culture+21 moreNEW SUN RISING — $2,098,967 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISI…LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $1,909,113 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIF…JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $1,567,201 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…THE CENTER THAT CARES — $1,539,198 · Human ServicesVISABILITY — $1,518,732 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,415,263 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,320,861 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $1,242,670 · Human Services+25 more — $16,772,486 · Human Services+25 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $7,675,491 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED W…THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $7,385,782 · PhilanthropyTHE PITTSBUR…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $2,925,035 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $2,783,596 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISE…POISE FOUNDATION — $1,376,142 · PhilanthropyNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $1,167,895 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $1,114,923 · Philanthropy+8 more — $4,773,812 · Philanthropy+8 moreSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,494,715 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $2,383,739 · HealthHERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,855,376 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $1,732,215 · HealthPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $1,096,564 · HealthHERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $916,284 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY — $772,680 · HealthPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $664,938 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $661,437 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $614,213 · HealthPrimary Care Health Services Inc — $598,156 · HealthACHIEVA — $593,472 · HealthUPMC — $589,681 · Health+5 more — $2,559,067 · HealthTRWIB INC — $2,419,191 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC — $1,671,150 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,336,216 · Community ImprovementMACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $824,492 · Community ImprovementCatapult Greater Pittsburgh — $792,258 · Community ImprovementMON VALLEY INITIATIVE — $751,777 · Community ImprovementHUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC — $738,107 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT — $703,437 · Community ImprovementHILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP — $700,327 · Community ImprovementBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $595,023 · Community ImprovementPittsburgh United — $588,600 · Community ImprovementUJAMAA COLLECTIVE — $444,000 · Community Improvement
Education$62,124,932Other$71,149,868Arts & Culture$35,596,886Human Services$29,384,491Philanthropy$29,202,676Health$17,532,537Community Improvement$11,564,578

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $31,646,387 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $7,675,491 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION — $7,385,782 over 8y, 21% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE — $5,379,918 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetDAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE — $5,027,109 over 7y, 53% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $4,506,137 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $4,491,690 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $3,556,745 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FORBES FUNDS — $3,510,039 over 8y, 30% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $2,933,795 over 8y, 11% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $2,925,035 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSewickley Public Library — $2,807,356 over 8y, 30% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $2,783,596 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC — $2,706,268 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $2,494,715 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRWIB INC — $2,419,191 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $2,396,476 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION — $2,383,739 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetNEW SUN RISING — $2,098,967 over 8y, 12% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $2,096,344 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $1,909,113 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $1,855,376 over 4y, 13% of budgetPUBLICSOURCE — $1,830,578 over 8y, 30% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC — $1,732,215 over 8y, 3.7% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $1,693,955 over 8y, 41% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC — $1,671,150 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $1,604,544 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMARIDON MUSEUM — $1,589,335 over 8y, 76% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $1,567,201 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC — $1,565,100 over 8y, 19% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,546,999 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CENTER THAT CARES — $1,539,198 over 8y, 19% of budgetVISABILITY — $1,518,732 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,415,263 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $1,414,986 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST — $1,399,441 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $1,376,142 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE — $1,351,233 over 8y, 0.2% of budget412 FOOD RESCUE INC — $1,336,339 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $1,336,216 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $1,320,861 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA — $1,274,763 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC — $1,253,390 over 8y, 23% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $1,242,670 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE — $1,200,351 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR BLIND CHILDREN — $1,170,603 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $1,167,895 over 8y, 22% of budgetCRAFTON TOWER - AHI INC — $1,156,267 over 4y, 94% 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORBES FUNDS ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds Sewickley Public Library ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds TRWIB INC ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW SUN RISING ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUBLICSOURCE ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
  • Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds MARIDON MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER THAT CARES ↗
  • Who funds VISABILITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗

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.

The Heinz EndowmentsOpportunity FoundationThe Grable FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Richard King Mellon F…Staunton Farm Foundat…McCune Foundation Pnc…The Jack Buncher Foun…Eden Hall FoundationPoise FoundationThe Buhl FoundationProgram to Aid Citize…
The Heinz EndowmentsPA201.7× affinity360 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Opportunity Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Poise Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise 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 Pittsburgh 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
78report 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, FY20–25

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.

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 2000 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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