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Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$255kYouth Development$225kEducation$177kHousing & Shelter$163kCommunity Improvement$150kHealth$87kReligion$75kPhilanthropy$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NORTH SIDE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT$15,000
PROJECT DESTINY INC$15,000
ACH CLEAR PATHWAYS$15,000
BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPERATION FIRST RESPONSE: $8k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $15k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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%
+28%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sisters Place Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $20,000 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRYVINTAGE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesVINTAGE INCPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS: $20,000 · Human ServicesPITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPSFAMILYLINKS INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNorth Side Partnership Project: $15,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $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 · OtherSARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherWOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF: $15,352 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH: $15,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE CONNECTIONS INC: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC: $15,000 · OtherVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSISTERS PLACE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetACH Clear Pathways: $30,000 over 2y, 5.6% 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 budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $25,000 over 1y, 100% 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 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 budgetVINTAGE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $17,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE CONNECTIONS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING & DEAF SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURGH MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVAGABOND MISSIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Pittsburgh Project: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH YOUTH LEADERSHIP: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFineview Citizens Council: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 55% 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 budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION FIRST RESPONSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThree Rivers Rowing Association: $6,916 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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