· Private foundation
Wi Patterson Charitable Fund
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $194k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH | $61,224 |
| UPMC CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| EAST END COOPERATIVE | $10,000 |
| EVERY CHILD INC | $10,000 |
| ROOTS OF FAITH | $10,000 |
| LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PROMISE | $8,394 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| ANDREW CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & MUSIC HALL | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $5,000 |
| 412 FOOD RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HELLO NEIGHBOR | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +16% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- CLCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH5× · 2021–2025 · $216k · revenue +11%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
- JAJUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +27%
- HIHOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGHone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +8%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
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…
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
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.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Methodist Church Union. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 125 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 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HELLO NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
- Who funds IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
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 Grable Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat
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 Wi Patterson Charitable 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.
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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