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The Pokorney Family Foundation at a glance

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The Pokorney Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$183kPhilanthropy$75kReligion$56kHealth$24kHuman Services$15kEducation$14kCommunity Improvement$11kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $52k
$1,069
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JOSHUA'S HAVEN CITY MISSION$1,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF W PA$1,000
DO GOOD PERIOD$500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$500
PLAYING FOR PLETCH$500
ACLU OF PENNSYLVANIA$500
SHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PRION ALLIANCE: $5k → 7%ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 8%GOLDEN TORNADO SCHOLASTIC FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%FRANKIE'S FRIENDS CAT RESCUE: $5k → 10%CONGREGATION OF BETH SHALOM: $21k → 11%BUHL PARK: $100k → 13%FALLINGWATER RESERVE: $3k → 17%UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MUSEUM: $2k → 14%BEST BUDDIES: $3k → 15%HARVEST OF HOPE: $2k → 19%SVAS INC: $10k → 17%PRION ALLIANCE: $2k → 8%TEMPLE SINAI: $3k → 11%BUHL PARK: $31k → 13%ONE DAY TO REMEMBER: $3k → 11%BUHL PARK: $30k → 13%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BEST BUDDIES: $3k → 15%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $34k → 19%CONGREGATION OF BETH SHALOM: $2k → 11%BUHL PARK: $8k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 19%TEMPLE SINAI: $2k → 11%BUHL PARK: $7k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $5k → 19%TEMPLE SINAI: $2k → 11%BUHL PARK: $2k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $3k → 19%BUHL PARK: $2k → 13%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $3k → 19%YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $3k → 19%COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY: $10k → 13%SHENANGO VALLEY FOOD WAREHOUSE: $7k → 13%MATTRESS FACTORY MUSUEM: $3k → 11%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $5k → 13%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $4k → 13%SHARON ROTARY AND FOUNDATION: $4k → 13%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $4k → 13%SHARON ROTARY AND FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $3k → 13%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $3k → 13%SHARON ROTARY AND FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%RODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $2k → 13%JOSHUA'S HAVEN CITY MISSION: $2k → 13%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES -200 OR LESS EACH: $3k → 13%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES -200 OR LESS EACH: $2k → 13%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES -200 OR LESS EACH: $2k → 13%OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES -200 OR LESS EACH: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 23 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
37

Total granted

$324k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+29%

Still filing today

43%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
HealthAnimalsInternationalEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BP
    BUHL PARK CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +128%
  • PA
    PRION ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +527%
  • Best Buddies International Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $7k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SV
    SHENANGO VALLEY FOOD WAREHOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $7k
  • FF
    FRANKIES FRIENDS HUMANEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +39%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Children's Cancer Cause Inc

The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.

Health
2
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
3
Animal Cancer Foundation

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…

Health
4
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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5
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
6
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
9
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
10
Asco Association

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…

Community Improvement
11
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
12
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUHL PARK CORPORATION: $180,380 · OtherBUHL PARK CORPORATIONCONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $23,690 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHALOMRODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOM: $21,588 · OtherRODEF SHALOM AND TEMPLE SHALOMOTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES -200 OR LESS EACH: $11,541 · OtherSVAS INC: $11,000 · OtherSHARON ROTARY AND FOUNDATION: $10,710 · Other+36 more: $58,796 · Other+36 moreYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $53,201 · PhilanthropyYOUNGSTOWN ARE…+2 more: $2,380 · PhilanthropyPRION ALLIANCE INC: $10,500 · HealthONE DAY TO REMEMBER INC: $3,529 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,250 · HealthMICHAEL DOUGLAS SCICHILONE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+4 more: $1,450 · HealthCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY: $10,500 · EducationMagic Charities Foundation: $750 · EducationBest Buddies International Inc: $6,573 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $600 · InternationalHearing the Call Inc: $500 · InternationalVIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW: $500 · InternationalFRANKIES FRIENDS HUMANE: $5,000 · AnimalsBEST BUDDIES INC: $1,000 · AnimalsSHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 · AnimalsHOMELESS CAT MANAGEMENT TEAM INC: $500 · AnimalsFOSTERCAT INC: $250 · AnimalsThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$317,705Philanthropy$55,581Health$22,229Education$11,250International$8,173Animals$7,250Arts & Culture$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBUHL PARK CORPORATION: $180,380 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION: $53,201 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPRION ALLIANCE INC: $10,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY: $10,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $6,573 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKIES FRIENDS HUMANE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONE DAY TO REMEMBER INC: $3,529 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Tornado Scholastic Foundation Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERLIFE: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMICHAEL DOUGLAS SCICHILONE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSUMMER IN THE CITY: $880 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetMagic Charities Foundation: $750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Compassionate Friends Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHearing the Call Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHENANGO VALLEY ANIMAL SHELTER: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CAT MANAGEMENT TEAM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTERCAT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONNET SPRINGS PARK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BUHL PARK CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds PRION ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY OF THE SHENANGO VALLEY ↗
  • 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 CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH CIRCLE OF FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS 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 BEST BUDDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MICHAEL DOUGLAS SCICHILONE FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Community Foundation …Clapp G H Decd Char a…The Grable FoundationEqt FoundationUpmc GroupHillman Family Founda…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pokorney Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pokorney Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Pokorney Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pokorney Family Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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