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V Kelly for Handicapped Children

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$116kHealth$98kYouth Development$54kEducation$50kArts & Culture$40kEmployment$35kInternational$17kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$16,715
Median grant
1
States reached
$975k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH$20,000
MHY FAMILY SERVICES$16,715
BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$11,955
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MHY FAMILY SERVICES: $17k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $12k → 9%STONEYBROOK FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%DON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $18k → 14%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $27k → 11%DON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $15k → 14%CREATIVE CITIZENS STUDIOS: $15k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITIONS: $4k → 11%WESLEY FAMILY SERVICE: $10k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $14k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$147k · 6 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
22

Total granted

$147k
$253k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+29%

Still filing today

67%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEmploymentInternationalOther

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

  • DM
    DON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER
    2× · 2018–2020 · $33k · revenue +75%
  • HW
    Horses With Hope Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $22k · revenue +12%
  • BL
    BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WATSON INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $27k · revenue +210%
  • MM
    MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +60%
  • CC
    CREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +415% · 38% of their budget

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

04Your field

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.

1
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
2
Potential Inc

Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.

Human Services
3
The Children's Institute Parent Company

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
4
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh

To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.

Education
5
Melmark Inc

Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…

Human Services
6
Westchester School for Special Children

To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.

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7
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
8
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
9
Easter Seals Eastern Pennsylvania

Easter seals eastern pa creates life-changing solutions for individuals with disablities and their families in their community by increasing independence, maximizing opportunities, minimizing barriers and enhancing quality of life.

Health
10
Easter Seals North Texas

We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.

Health
11
Children's Therapy Center

To maximize the potential of children with special needs by providing individualized, family centered intervention services.

Health
12
Sunshine School & Development Center

Shattering limitations to enable people touched by disability, serving their unique jorney through advocacy, therapy, and education

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals of Southeastern Pa and the most unlike its peers is Bender Leadership Academy. 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 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%4%<5yr13%19%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%8%<5yr13%14%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr16%16%35–55yr16%20%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
8%
1,148/14,760

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER — $32,500 · Human ServicesDON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTERTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $27,243 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTETHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INCMHY FAMILY SERVICES — $16,715 · Human ServicesMHY FAMILY SERVICESCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS — $15,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOSSTONEYBROOK FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesSTONEYBROOK FOUNDATIONHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION — $13,934 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATIONAARON'S ACRES — $11,700 · Human ServicesAARON'S ACRESWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES — $10,394 · Human ServicesWESLEY FAMILY SERVICESMARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION — $9,610 · Human ServicesMARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION+1 more — $3,974 · Human ServicesBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $29,111 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAST ANTHONY SCHOOL PROGRAMS — $25,000 · OtherST ANTHONY SCHOOL PROGRAMSNOT FORGOTTEN HOME AND — $15,000 · OtherNOT FORGOTTEN HOME ANDLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $12,756 · OtherLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVA…Variety the Childrens Charity — $12,000 · OtherVariety the Childrens CharityIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE — $12,500 · OtherCASEY'S CLUBHOUSETHE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS — $10,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTSHorses With Hope Inc — $21,994 · HealthHorses With H…SCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $15,000 · HealthSCHREIBER CEN…EASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA — $8,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS …THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $5,805 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'…SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,594 · EducationSLIPPERY …THE VISTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationTHE VISTA…Education Law Center - PA — $7,500 · EducationEducation…Open Up — $4,958 · EducationOpen UpBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $21,955 · EmploymentBest Buddies International Inc — $16,763 · InternationalMCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $15,500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$176,070Other$121,367Health$50,799Education$35,052Employment$21,955International$16,763Philanthropy$15,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDON MILLS ACHIEVEMENT CENTER — $32,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE — $27,243 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHorses With Hope Inc — $21,994 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY — $21,955 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $16,763 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMHY FAMILY SERVICES — $16,715 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS — $15,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION — $13,934 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLIFE'SWORK OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $12,756 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,594 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASEY'S CLUBHOUSE — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAARON'S ACRES — $11,700 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE VISTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THEATER ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION — $9,610 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF SOUTHEASTERN PA — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $5,805 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Palliative Care Coalition — $3,974 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Staunton Farm Foundat…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…Eqt FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Jack Buncher Foun…Hough Wallace P Chari…Fisa FoundationPittsburgh Penguins F…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…The Grable Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA42.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Hough Wallace P Charitable Trust · Fisa Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Grable 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 V Kelly for Handicapped Children 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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