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 20222025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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12 grants matching “mystic · $124,500

  • $25,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025

    Healthy wealthy her; manton way initiative

  • $8,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025

    General operating support

  • $1,500

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025

    Camper trailer purchase

  • $27,500

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Healthy wealth her!

  • $4,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Peali committee participation

  • $1,750

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    Peali committee participation

  • $1,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024

    General operating support

  • $31,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    Healthy, wealthy, her!

  • $2,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    Purchase of vehicle

  • $1,750

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    Peali committee participation

  • $1,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023

    General operating support

  • $20,000

    Mystic Mamas · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

    Community workshops

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • 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

$1.5M
2022
$1.4M
2023
$1.3M
2024
$1.6M
2025

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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