· Private foundation
The Pokorney Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUHL PARK | $30,100 |
| CONGREGATION OF BETH SHALOM | $21,474 |
| PRION ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,900 |
| ONE DAY TO REMEMBER | $2,500 |
| RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM | $2,312 |
| UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| ONE WITH EARTH | $1,069 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W PA | $1,000 |
| JOSHUA'S HAVEN CITY MISSION | $1,000 |
| ACLU OF PENNSYLVANIA | $500 |
| PLAYING FOR PLETCH | $500 |
| SHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER | $500 |
| DO GOOD PERIOD | $500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your 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 +43% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BPBUHL PARK CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +128%
- PAPRION ALLIANCE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +527%
Best Buddies International Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SVSHENANGO VALLEY FOOD WAREHOUSEone grant, 2019 · $7k
- FFFRANKIES FRIENDS HUMANEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +39%
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 mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
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,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Summer in the City. 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 27 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 67 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 BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PRION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKIES FRIENDS HUMANE ↗
- Who funds ONE DAY TO REMEMBER INC ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL DOUGLAS SCICHILONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEST BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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 · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Hillman Family Foundations · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Pokorney 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.
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% 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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