Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Arts Equity & Education Fund
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.
- $558k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Arts Equity & Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $558k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $556k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $552k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $539k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $591k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $523k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $415k | 82% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $75k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $310,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Ellis School | $230,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hill Dance Academy Theatre | $148,600 | 5 | 4% |
| Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc | $135,000 | 4 | 5% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Alma Lewis | $90,000 | 3 | 32% |
| Community Theater Project Corporation | $88,500 | 5 | 2% |
| The Neighborhood Academy | $85,550 | 2 | 1% |
| Bunker Projects Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 29% |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($793k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arts Equity & Education Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Heinz Endowments · Opportunity Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Fine Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Buhl Foundation
How this is measured
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About Arts Equity & Education Fund
- How much does Arts Equity & Education Fund give?
- Arts Equity & Education Fund reported 28 grants totaling $557,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Arts Equity & Education Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (78%), Education (15%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Arts Equity & Education Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc ($350k), Pittsburgh Symphony Inc ($310k), The Ellis School ($230k).
- Does Arts Equity & Education Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arts Equity & Education Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Equity & Education Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Heinz Endowments, Opportunity Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations.
- Where is Arts Equity & Education Fund based?
- Arts Equity & Education Fund is based in PA.
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