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Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$27k
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$255kYouth Development$225kEducation$177kHousing & Shelter$163kCommunity Improvement$150kHealth$87kReligion$75kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB$26,710
PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS$20,000
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION$17,500
BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
PROJECT DESTINY INC$15,000
ACH CLEAR PATHWAYS$15,000
NORTH SIDE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT$15,000
A SCHOOLS$10,000
CENTER FOR HEARING AND DEAF$8,977
PROTOTYPE PGH INC$8,500
IMAGINE FURTHER COLLECTIVE INC$5,000
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, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE: $8k → 8%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%VINTAGE INC: $20k → 11%East End Cooperative Ministry: $20k → 11%FAMILYLINKS INC: $18k → 11%Youth Enrichment Services: $10k → 11%HELLO NEIGHBOR: $6k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 11%NORTH SIDE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: $15k → 11%COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $13k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $11k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $27k → 11%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $20k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION: $25k → 11%JUBILES ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 11%BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH: $25k → 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.

26%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$353k · 10 repeat orgs$994k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
53

Total granted

$353k
$867k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+31%

Still filing today

80%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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 ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HA
    Hilltop Alliance
    2× · 2017–2023 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • UI
    URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $43k · revenue +221%
  • AC
    ACH Clear Pathways
    2× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +618%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE RESIDENCES AT WOOD STREET
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -33%
  • EM
    EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue 0%
  • K
    KIDSVOICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +96%

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
Pittsburgh Housing Development Corp

To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…

Housing & Shelter
2
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
3
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
4
Sustainable Pittsburgh

Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.

Environment
5
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
6
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
7
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement
8
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation

The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.

Philanthropy
9
Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…

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10
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports
11
Pittsylvania County Community Action Inc

To increase awareness about poverty and to promote comprehensive approaches to eliminate conditions that cause poverty and improve the quality of life in communities throughout the service area.

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12
Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance

Gpca's mission is to break the cycle of generational proverty by ensuring equitable distribution of the resources for vulnerable children, families, and communities. our vision is to be philadelphia's catalyst for community empowerment and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Little Sisters of the Poor. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Trade Associat…Healthcare Providers and Fo…Parks & Environmental Conse…Senior Residential CareFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Fraternal Benefit SocietiesPittsburgh Community Develo…Jewish Educational Organiza…Urban Charter and Independe…Community Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%2%<5yr12%10%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr21%24%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%2%<5yr12%7%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr21%25%20–35yr16%20%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
8%
764/9,846

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

59 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. 59 of the 73 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION — $43,000 · Human ServicesURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION — $27,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES CORP…THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB — $26,710 · Human ServicesTHE CITIZEN SCIENCE LABVISABILITY — $25,312 · Human ServicesVISABILITYBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $25,000 · Human ServicesBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGHJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INCVINTAGE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesVINTAGE INCEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $20,000 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRYPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS — $20,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPSFAMILYLINKS INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNorth Side Partnership Project — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $54,518 · Human Services+6 moreSHEPHERDS HEART FELLOWSHIP — $37,500 · OtherSHEPHERDS HEART FELLOWSHIPQUEENS GAMBIT CHESS INSTITUTE — $30,000 · OtherQUEENS GAMBIT CHESS INSTITUTELITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $25,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF — $15,352 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC — $15,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CONNECTIONS INC — $15,000 · OtherVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON — $15,000 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION — $15,000 · OtherFineview Citizens Council — $15,000 · OtherPOISE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherPOISE FOUNDATIONPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $15,000 · OtherJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Other+14 more — $110,772 · Other+14 moreEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $58,939 · EducationEXTRA MILE ED…THE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE PITTSBURG…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $21,000 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORH…MANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 · EducationMANCHESTER YO…LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $17,500 · EducationLEARNING DISA…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBR…A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $10,000 · EducationA SCHOOLS PIT…PROTOTYPE PGH INC — $8,500 · EducationHilltop Alliance — $75,000 · Community ImprovementHilltop Al…Bloomfield Development Corporation — $22,500 · Community ImprovementBloomfield…HAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC — $22,500 · Community ImprovementHAZELWOOD …The Pittsburgh Project — $15,000 · Community ImprovementThe Pittsb…ACH Clear Pathways — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentACH Clear…PROJECT DESTINY INC — $29,242 · Youth DevelopmentPROJECT D…ALLEGHENY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $27,909 · Youth DevelopmentALLEGHENY…VAGABOND MISSIONS — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentVAGABOND …PITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPITTSBURG…THE RESIDENCES AT WOOD STREET — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSISTERS PLACE INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterBuilding United of Southwestern PA — $4,952 · Housing & ShelterKIDSVOICE — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH — $20,000 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$364,540Other$448,624Education$170,939Community Improvement$135,000Youth Development$117,151Housing & Shelter$94,952Crime & Legal$65,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHilltop Alliance — $75,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE RESIDENCES AT WOOD STREET — $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $58,939 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetACH Clear Pathways — $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSISTERS PLACE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT DESTINY INC — $29,242 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALLEGHENY YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $27,909 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES CORPORATION — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVISABILITY — $25,312 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHAZELWOOD INITIATIVE INC — $22,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY — $21,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVINTAGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMANCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $17,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVAGABOND MISSIONS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE CONNECTIONS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFineview Citizens Council — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAssemble Inc — $12,446 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $11,490 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngels Place Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPROTOTYPE PGH INC — $8,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetOPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThree Rivers Rowing Association — $6,916 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Hillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The United Way of Sou…The Heinz EndowmentsThe Buhl FoundationMcCune Foundation Pnc…Poise FoundationHoward & Nell E Mille…Eqt FoundationUpmc Group
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA81.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · The Buhl Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Poise Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group

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 Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 73 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.

    Source object · view filing

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