About Eamon Foundation (F/K/A Avs Foundation)
The Eamon Foundation concentrates its giving into a very small number of large, operational grants. Most dollars flow to a single community foundation serving the Gulf Coast region, while the remainder supports local Pittsburgh-area providers of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The foundation favors unrestricted/operational support and repeat funding relationships rather than many small grants.
Focus Areas
Large-scale support to a Gulf Coast community foundation (likely for regional philanthropic/regranting or disaster-response efforts)Operational support for intellectual and developmental disability service providers in Allegheny CountySustained funding relationships with a few institutional nonprofits rather than broad diversified giving
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated and high-dollar giving: a majority of assets given to one grantee across multiple grants, with the remaining funds allocated in large, single grants to a small set of repeat local service providers; emphasis on operational (unrestricted) support.
Funding Style
general operating supportcapacity building
About Eamon Foundation (F/K/A Avs Foundation)
The Eamon Foundation (f/k/a Avs Foundation) channels most of its recent giving into a handful of large operational grants, with the single largest checks going to Gulf Coast Community Foundation in Venice, Florida across 2023, 2024, and 2025. That pattern points to a funder that favors sustained institutional support over a broad spread of smaller awards. Alongside that Gulf Coast relationship, the foundation backs Pittsburgh-area organizations serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including Merakey Allegheny Valley School and Allegheny Valley School. Its recent grants also show support for universities, charities, and service providers that work on quality of life, care, and community support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The grants are overwhelmingly operational in nature, and several recipients appear more than once across the recent-grants list, suggesting repeat funding relationships rather than one-off awards. The foundation’s grantmaking is therefore best read as concentrated support for a small set of organizations, with a mix of regional philanthropy infrastructure and local disability-services delivery.
What Eamon Foundation (F/K/A Avs Foundation) Funds
A defining theme in the recent grants is support for intellectual and developmental disabilities services. The foundation gave $900,766 to Merakey Allegheny Valley School in Pittsburgh for operational support, and it awarded $381,687 to Allegheny Valley School in Coraopolis for the same purpose. Health and care-related support also appears in the portfolio. In 2025, The Eamon Foundation (f/k/a Avs Foundation) granted $100,000 to Mount Sinaimedical Center Foundation in Cleveland on an operational basis, and it gave $10,000 to Canine Companions for Independence in Santa Rosa for operational support. Creative and quality-of-life programming is another recurring thread. The foundation provided $126,823 to Adventure for All in Sarasota for operational support, and it made repeated $25,000 grants to Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Ligonier over 2023, 2024, and 2025.
How Eamon Foundation (F/K/A Avs Foundation) Gives
The typical grant size sits at $25,000 at the 25th percentile, $75,000 at the median, and $150,000 at the 75th percentile, while the recent-grants list shows a few much larger operational awards. The foundation repeats funding to the same recipients across multiple years, including Gulf Coast Community Foundation and Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, which indicates ongoing relationships rather than isolated gifts. Most grants are operational or unrestricted in character. The program materials also show an initial letter-of-interest step followed, for selected applicants, by a full grant application through an online portal with standard organizational documents.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.5M
Total Assets
$66.1M
Total Revenue
$2.6M
Total Expenses
$4.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $25K and $150K, with a median of $75K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$75K
75th Percentile
$150K
Geographic Reach
Regional4 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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