· Private foundation
Bartlett Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC | $25,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PAULS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SUFFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT | $5,000 |
| ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,032 |
| STRAY LOVE FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| PURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC | $3,000 |
| BRANFORD COMPASSION CLUB | $3,000 |
| DAN COSGROVE ANIMAL SHELTER | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Bartlett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
40 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PBPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $141k · revenue +46%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%- DUDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- FCFox Chapel Area Land Trustone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -96%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +174%
- SHSecond Harvestone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -42%
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.
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.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
At philadelphia zoo, our mission is to flourish as an urban oasis, where people and animals thrive, transformational memories are made, and our passion for conservation saves wildlife (see schedule o).guided by a three-year strategic plan,…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
We strive to provide all aspects of care to abandoned, neglected, and injured animals; reunite lost pets with their caregivers or seek new families for them; educate the community on humane care and interactions with all animals with the…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
The greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (gpcc) is the advocacy affiliate of the allegheny conference on community development (accd). (continued on sch o) the chamber works to improve the competitiveness of the pittsburgh region for…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRAYLOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD COMPASSION CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fox Chapel Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW HAVEN CAT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT PARTNERS OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAPPELLA CANTORUM INC ↗
- Who funds OSMAN HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc ↗
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: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Adams Foundation Inc · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bartlett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bartlett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cappella Cantorum Inc: 10% of income from government
- New Haven Chorale Inc: 3% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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