· Private foundation
Willis Hilda M Foundation No 2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH OPERA | $150,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD | $150,000 |
| PITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $50,000 |
| EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CITY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY21–24, $31k) 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- POPITTSBURGH OPERA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
- WTWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +17%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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…
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
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…
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
To provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
To create a space in our communities through education and cultural experiences that celebrate the joy of discovery and entertainment.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Quantum theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in…
The museum's mission is to provide innovative and inclusive museum experiences that inspire kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity for all learners.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Library of Homestead ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
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: Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Federated Investors Foundation Inc · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Wi Patterson Charitable Fund
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 Willis Hilda M Foundation No 2 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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