· Private foundation
Tsudis 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $11,395 |
| ARCHONS | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| PITTSBURGH VINTAGE GRAND PRIX | $2,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSE | $1,534 |
| LENDING HARTS | $1,050 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF PITTSBURGH | $1,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $900 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $800 |
| MONASTERY OF ST GERASIMOS | $600 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $550 |
| BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION | $500 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH | $500 |
| HOMELESS CHILDRENS EDUCATION FUND | $500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) 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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Tsudis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 -4% since the first grant, against -46% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 25 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SNST NICHOLAS GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL5× · 2020–2024 · $48k
- AARCHONS5× · 2020–2024 · $19k
- POPRESENTATION OF CHRIST GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH3× · 2020–2023 · $6k
Funded once
- SAST ANTHONY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $4k
- MAMCKEESPORT AGAPE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -46%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
To provide a continuum of care for homeless individuals that leads toward self-sufficiency.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
To ensure that those impacted by poverty have the skills and resources to achieve their full potential.
PHILABUNDANCE WAS FOUNDED IN 1984 WITH THE SIMPLE BELIEF THAT NO ONE SHOULD GO HUNGRY WHILE HEALTHY FOOD GOES TO WASTE. OUR MISSION IS TO DRIVE HUNGER FROM OUR COMMUNITIES TODAY AND TO END HUNGER FOR GOOD. We have a commitment to always…
Pathways to housing pa empowers people with disabilities to improve their housing stability, achieve better health, and reclaim their lives.
The housing alliance of pennsyvlania ("hap") has played a leading role in many significant housing policy advances. hap is an influential community of housing consumers, advocates, producers, providers, policy makers and government…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
Health care for the homeless works to end homelessness through racially equitable health care, housing and advocacy in partnership with those of us who have experienced it.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Mckeesport Agape 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 15 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 49% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 40 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 FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Lending Hearts ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD RESILIENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GIORGIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCKEESPORT AGAPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD ASSISTANCE MATCH INC ↗
- Who funds The Cornerstone of Beaver County ↗
- Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BUILDERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS FKA VENANGO AREA COMM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLESSING BOARD ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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 · The Heinz Endowments · Massey Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · American Eagle Outfitters Foundation · Upmc Group · McAuley Ministries · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust
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 Tsudis 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.
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.