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Arts Equity & Education Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.0MEducation$585kHuman Services$79kHealth$55kEnvironment$30kHousing & Shelter$28kScience & Tech$15kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $417k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$75,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS$50,000
PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE$35,000
THE ELLIS SCHOOL$30,000
KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER$27,500
PEARL ARTS MOVEMENT & SOUND$25,000
MATRESS FACTORY$25,000
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS$25,000
BREW HOUSE ASSOCIATION$25,000
ALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$25,000
NEW HAZLETT THEATER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS$25,000
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET$15,000
ASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH$15,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CASA SAN JOSE: $1k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $15k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $15k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $10k → 11%CREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $12k → 11%CREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $12k → 11%CREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $10k → 11%NOT FORGOTTEN HOME & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $23k → 11%NOT FORGOTTEN HOME & COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
PA
CA
MD
NM
SC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 52 repeat orgs$419k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
25

Total granted

$3.4M
$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-4%

Still filing today

79%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PB
    PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +22%
  • PS
    PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $310k · revenue +80%
  • TE
    THE ELLIS SCHOOL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AUGUST WILSON CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • A
    APERTURE
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • OP
    OAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -50%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
3
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Inc

The corporation advances excellence in the arts, including studio, media, and creative writing. to achieve its mission, the corporation provides equipment and facilities for individual artists, conducts educational programs, and stimulates…

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4
Pittsburgh Festival Opera

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
6
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
7
Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
8
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
9
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
10
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
11
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
12
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Not Forgotten Home and Community Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
35/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $350,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INCPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $310,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INCHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $148,600 · Arts & CultureHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATREBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $135,000 · Arts & CultureBraddock Carnegie Library AssocCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTSALMA LEWIS: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $88,500 · Arts & CultureBUNKER PROJECTS INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $82,025 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $80,875 · Arts & Culture+31 more: $709,875 · Arts & Culture+31 moreCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART: $239,200 · OtherCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTNEW HAZLETT THEATER CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS: $80,000 · OtherNEW HAZLETT THEATER CENTER FO…ART 21 FOR EVERYONE: $64,225 · OtherART 21 FOR EVERYONEBREW HOUSE ARTS: $60,000 · OtherBREW HOUSE ARTSCARNEGIE MUSEUMS: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherWOMEN OF VISIONS INC: $48,500 · OtherALUMNI THEATER: $45,000 · OtherTHE AUGUST WILSON CENTER: $35,000 · OtherTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $35,000 · OtherTHE FRICK PITTSBURGH MUSEUMS AND GARDENS: $35,000 · OtherANDY WARHOL MUSEUM: $35,000 · Other+16 more: $208,900 · Other+16 moreTHE ELLIS SCHOOL: $230,000 · EducationTHE ELLIS SC…THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $85,550 · EducationTHE NEIGHBOR…FAME: $74,500 · EducationFAMEIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationCENTER OF LIFE: $40,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $34,000 · Human ServicesNOT FORGOTTEN HOME AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $33,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,025 · Human ServicesTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPROTOHAVEN: $15,000 · PhilanthropyOAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $28,000 · Housing & ShelterTEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $20,000 · Religion
Arts & Culture$2,204,875Other$985,825Education$425,050Human Services$108,025Philanthropy$35,000Housing & Shelter$28,000Religion$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $310,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ELLIS SCHOOL: $230,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $148,600 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetBraddock Carnegie Library Assoc: $135,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS: $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALMA LEWIS: $90,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $88,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $85,550 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBUNKER PROJECTS INC: $85,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $82,025 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $80,875 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAME: $74,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCREATIVE TIME INC: $72,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD: $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBREW HOUSE ARTS: $60,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPEARLARTS MOVEMENT & SOUND: $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWOMEN OF VISIONS INC: $48,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $40,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS: $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $34,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetNOT FORGOTTEN HOME AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $33,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetART21 INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetASSOCIATED ARTISTS OF PITTSBURGH: $30,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetQUANTUM THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe City Theatre Company Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOAKLAND PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $28,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALLENTOWN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResonance Works: $22,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWESTINGHOUSE ARTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $18,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS: $18,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY TO PRESERVE THE MILLVALE MURALS OF MAXO VANKA: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHANA SIMMONS DANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFLAMENCO PITTSBURGH: $14,375 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHARM CITY CULTURAL CULTIVATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRADIUS BOOKS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBIA MUSEUM OF ART: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Heinz EndowmentsOpportunity FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…The Fine FoundationMcKinney Charitable F…The Grable FoundationProgram to Aid Citize…The Jack Buncher Foun…Richard King Mellon F…McCune Foundation Pnc…The Buhl Foundation
The Heinz EndowmentsPA80.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arts Equity & Education Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arts Equity & Education Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Arts Equity & Education Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Arts Equity & Education Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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