· Private foundation
Tippins 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k68 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $251k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHUPMC | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PANTHER LABWORKS | $70,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $30,000 |
| BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $25,000 |
| UPMC CANCER CENTERS DEPT OF UROLOGY | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWESTERN PA | $20,000 |
| PITTSBURGH OPERA | $16,000 |
| SWARTZ CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $15,000 |
| TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH | $15,000 |
| BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION | $10,000 |
| NO DOG LEFT BEHIND | $10,000 |
| WORLD RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those 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.
84 repeat relationships — 78 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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; $26k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +39%- BBBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $125k · revenue +111%
- TITRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +230%
Funded once
- SSEEone grant, 2019 · $562k
- PFPITTSBURGH FOUNDATION - EMERGENCY ACTION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- CMCarnegie Mellon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +35%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Canyon Heroes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 107 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISABILITY ↗
- Who funds ECO-SOAP BANK ↗
- Who funds NO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE WATSON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian SeniorCare ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
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 · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Upmc Group · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
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 Tippins 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% 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.