Funding search · EIN 256407379 · Bethesda, MD
Myles D & J Faye Sampson Family
A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.
- 258
- grants reported
- $5.7M
- total given
- 2022–2025
- filing years
- $20,000
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
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Top recipients
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- Grow Pittsburgh6 grants · $430,000
- The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health7 grants · $325,000
- Community Kitchen Pittsburgh4 grants · $300,000
- Give Back Yoga Foundation5 grants · $295,000
- Center for Coalfield Justice4 grants · $240,000
- Epidemic Answers8 grants · $235,000
- Hill District Consensus Group6 grants · $193,699
- Community Foundation for the Alleghenies7 grants · $180,000
- The Center for Mind Body Medicine3 grants · $180,000
- Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services4 grants · $170,000
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 258 grants.
- $100,000
Grow Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Capital campaign
- $85,000
Grow Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
School gardens support and expansion
- $85,000
Grow Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
School gardens support and expansion
- $76,000
Hill District Consensus Group · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Healing sabbatical for bug fpc
- $75,000
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
General operating support
- $75,000
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Community outreach and walk-in care
- $75,000
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Reinvigorating community and child nutrition meals
- $75,000
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General operating support
- $75,000
Grow Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
School gardens support and expansion
- $75,000
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Midwife fellowship
- $75,000
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Building community through food
- $75,000
Grow Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
School garden support
- $70,000
Give Back Yoga Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2022
Eat breathe thrive
- $65,000
Give Back Yoga Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2025
Eat breathe thrive
- $65,000
Give Back Yoga Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2024
Eat breathe thrive
- $65,000
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Wellness walk-in fridays
- $65,000
Give Back Yoga Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2023
Eat breathe thrive - general operating support
- $60,000
Center for Coalfield Justice · Washington, PA · 2025
General operating support
- $60,000
Documenting Hope · Windsor, CT · 2025
Flight study
- $60,000
The Center for Mind Body Medicine · Washington, DC · 2025
General operating support
- $60,000
Center for Coalfield Justice · Washington, PA · 2024
Grassroots advocacy to shift power in the coalfields
- $60,000
The Center for Mind Body Medicine · Washington, DC · 2024
General support for strategic growth
- $60,000
Center for Coalfield Justice · Washington, PA · 2023
General operating support
- $60,000
Sankofa Village Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
5-year succession planning
- $60,000
The Center for Mind Body Medicine · Washington, DC · 2023
General support for strategic growth
- $60,000
Center for Coalfield Justice · Washington, PA · 2022
General operating support
- $60,000
Center for Mind Body Medicine · Washington, DC · 2022
General support for strategic growth
- $60,000
Hill District Consensus Group · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Bugs - operating and co-op seed funding
- $55,000
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Hr position
- $50,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Attorney and community democracy land advocate position
- $50,000
University of Arizona Foundation for the Benefit of Azcim · Tucson, AZ · 2025
Integrative medicine fellowship
- $50,000
Epidemic Answers · Windsor, CT · 2024
Flight study, asd cohort
- $50,000
Pittsburgh Struggling Student Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Pittsburgh food hub and apprenticeship program
- $50,000
University of Arizona Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2024
Integrative medicine fellowship: pediatric curricular expansion
- $50,000
Epidemic Answers · Windsor, CT · 2023
Healing together community development
- $50,000
Pittsburgh Struggling Student Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Green grocer
- $50,000
Real Food for Kids · Arlington, VA · 2023
General operating support
- $50,000
Colorectal Cancer Alliance · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
- $50,000
Epidemic Answers · Windsor, CT · 2022
Healing together community
- $50,000
Real Food for Kids · Arlington, VA · 2022
General operating support
- $50,000
Sankofa Village Community Garden · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Food and leadership fellowship
- $50,000
Turning Pointe Survivor Advocacy Center · Shelton, WA · 2022
Communal kitchen redesign and remodel
- $50,000
University of Arizona Foundation for the Benefit of Azcim · Tucson, AZ · 2022
Clinical mentorship for pediatricians
- $45,000
Ymca of Greater Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Teaching kitchen
- $45,000
Ymca of Greater Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Sampson family y teaching kitchen
- $45,000
Ymca of Greater Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Sampson family ymca general operating support
- $41,000
Mwanakuche Farm · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
A taste of culture
- $40,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
General operating support
- $40,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Environmental legal aid & community democracy capacity building in ohio river valley communities
- $40,000
Hill District Consensus Group · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Black urban gardeners
- $40,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
General operating support
- $35,000
Documenting Hope · Windsor, CT · 2025
General operating support
- $35,000
Fair Shake Environmental Legal Service · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Part-time development director position
- $35,000
Mwanakuche Community Farm · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
General operating support
- $35,000
Pittsburgh Struggling Student Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Completion of construction of green grocer and preparation for grand opening
- $35,000
Sierra Club Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2022
Pennsylvania 100% clean energy
- $35,000
Upmc Cancer Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
General operating support of the hcc wiop
- $31,000
Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Healthy, wealthy, her!
- $31,000
Out of the End Incorporated · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Growing and protecting our urban farm
- $31,000
Sankofa Village Community Garden · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Cover shelter and homewood market
- $30,000
A Place To Be · Middleburg, VA · 2025
General operating
- $30,000
High Desert Test Sites · Joshua Tree, CA · 2025
General operating support
- $30,000
Pittsburgh Struggling Student Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Freeman recovery farm
- $30,000
Shunpike · Seattle, WA · 2025
Mineral school/mars expansion project or expanding access to the arts in a rural community
- $30,000
The Compass Center Foundation · Crozet, VA · 2025
General operating support
- $30,000
Sankofa Village Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
5 year succession plan for scvgf
- $30,000
What'S Growing Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Scaling up farm-to-village 2023
- $30,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2023
Pittsburgh food policy council jedi plan
- $30,000
Epidemic Answers · Windsor, CT · 2023
Documenting hope - flight
- $30,000
Give Back Yoga Foundation · Boulder, CO · 2022
Mindful yoga therapy
- $30,000
Pittsburgh Green Innovators · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Food secure city healthy food education
- $27,500
Mwanakuche Farm · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Food solution
- $27,500
Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Healthy wealth her!
- $26,000
Garfield Community Farm · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
General operating support
- $26,000
Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Kincaid st community garden
- $26,000
Pittsburgh Hub · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Hilltop community market
- $26,000
Soil Sisters Plant Nursery · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Soil sisters plant nursery
- $26,000
Out of the End · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Land, hoop house and fence
- $25,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation · New York, NY · 2025
General operating
- $25,000
American Immigration Council · Washington, DC · 2025
General operating
- $25,000
Beaver County Foundation · Beaver, PA · 2025
Royally fit's nutritionally tailored prescription csa program
- $25,000
Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Kincaid street garden
- $25,000
Brandis Care With Love Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
We cook, we eat, we learn, we live
- $25,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2025
Ohio river valley participatory fund
- $25,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2025
Fractracker alliance
- $25,000
Moms Across America · Weaverville, NC · 2025
General operating support
- $25,000
Mwanakuche Farm · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Land purchase
- $25,000
Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Healthy wealthy her; manton way initiative
- $25,000
Out of the End Incorporated · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
1 sound urban farm
- $25,000
Project Love Coalition · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Agricultural development project
- $25,000
Sankofa Village Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Afterschool program
- $25,000
Soil Sisters Plant Nursery Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Soil sisters urban farm
- $25,000
The Midwife Center for Birth & Women'S Health · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
General operating support
- $25,000
West End Power · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
The urban farming for community empowerment program
- $25,000
What'S Growing Llc · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Grant readiness for growers
- $25,000
Ymca of Greater Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Teaching kitchen
- $25,000
Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Kincaid st community garden
- $25,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2024
Ohio river valley participatory fund (orvpf)
- $25,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2024
Pittsburgh food policy council
- $25,000
Community Foundation for the Alleghenies · Johnstown, PA · 2024
Fractracker alliance
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