· Private foundation
Thomas D & Frances N Maher Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $12,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN OF PITT | $6,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNION CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| PREBORN MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| RETIREMENT FUND FOR THE RELIGIOUS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BLIND & VISIONS REHABILITATION SVCS | $2,000 |
| ST MARGARET FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| COOPER SEIGEL COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +73% · 93% of their budget
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue +98%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $4k
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +160%
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.
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
See schedule o.carlow university, rooted in its catholic identity and embodying the heritage and values of the sisters of mercy, offers transformational educational opportunities for a diverse community of learners and empowers them to…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY UNIONTOWN AREA CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds ARM MINISTRIES ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas D & Frances N Maher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas D & Frances N Maher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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