· Private foundation
Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc
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 $10k30 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENNEDY CATHOLIC FAMILY OF SCHOOLS | $125,000 |
| PRINCE OF PEACE CTR | $90,000 |
| FH BUHL TRUSTEES | $70,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CHURCH | $60,000 |
| ST MICHAEL'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BUHL PARK CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| HOPE CTR FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY | $40,000 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| JOHN XXIII HOME | $25,000 |
| AREA COMMUNITY THEATER | $25,000 |
| WILLOW WOMEN'S CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ST BARTHOLOMEWS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ST EULALIA'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- POPRINCE OF PEACE CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $490k · revenue +2%
- BPBUHL PARK CORPORATION6× · 2019–2024 · $221k · revenue +128%
- WWWillow Womens Center6× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $50k
- PSPENN STATE SHENANGOone grant, 2019 · $45k
- SOSISTER OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CONVENTone grant, 2022 · $35k
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.
Sharon community health center is a not for profit community based primary medical care organization dedicated to providing quality healthcare to residents of sharon, pa and the surrounding area without regards to their ability to pay.
St. Joseph's Center (the "Center") is a not-for-profit corporation founded by the Congregation of Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Scranton, Pennsylvania. The Center is located in Lackawanna County, PA and provides…
A community center which provides a meeting place and programs for the recreation and social welfare of all age groups in the community.
To provide a personal care boarding home for adults of venango county.
It is our mission to provide a child-centered environment, treating each child and family with respect.
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
The mission of saint joseph villa is rooted in the mission of the sisters of st. joseph who founded and sponsor the villa. the sisters' mission of uniting people with god and with one another is the primary focus of the staff at the villa.…
To provide affordable, accessible, and quality healthcare.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. seton health at schuyler ridge residential healthcare (schuyler…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Shenango Presbyterian Seniorcare is a Christian non-profit continuing care retirement community providing nursing care, personal care, and independent housing for the elderly, in a quality dignified living environment. The residents are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prince of Peace Center and the most unlike its peers is Willow Womens Center. 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 62 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 117 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.
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: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Edward J Kavanagh Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · United Way of Mercer County · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tj Kavanagh Foundation Inc 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.
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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