· Private foundation
Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Manager
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $30,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PA | $30,000 |
| PITTSBURGH TOMORROW | $25,000 |
| WQED | $18,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $10,750 |
| THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WPA | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION | $5,500 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $5,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| PITTSBURGH CLO | $4,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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 INC5× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $117k · revenue +6%
- WMWQED MULTIMEDIA7× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PIPGH INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (PARKINSONS RESEARCH)one grant, 2022 · $20k
- PIPGH INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (GREENAMYRE RESEARCH)one grant, 2023 · $20k
- PYPITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
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…
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 90 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 PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATING PITTSBURGH TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds WOMEN BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL TRAIL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Outreach Teen and Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVERFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RIVERLIFE ↗
- Who funds The Ohio University Foundation ↗
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 · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Upmc Group
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Manager funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Byham Charitable Foundation Attn Helen Spalaris Foundation Manager. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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