· Private foundation
Fisa Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $903k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $546k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DISABILITY LEAD | $125,000 |
| GWEN'S GIRLS INC | $75,000 |
| KEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND | $66,000 |
| PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY (POWER) | $60,000 |
| EDUCATION LAW CENTER | $60,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $60,000 |
| ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER | $50,000 |
| WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA | $50,000 |
| AUTISM CONNECTION OF PA | $46,350 |
| RYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $40,000 |
| 412 JUSTICE | $40,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $40,000 |
| WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT | $35,000 |
| EAST SUBURBAN CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
101 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY7× · 2019–2025 · $361k · revenue +112%
Education Law Center - PA7× · 2018–2025 · $360k · revenue +171%- EEEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY6× · 2018–2024 · $355k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- ACALLEGHENY COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $50k
- PPPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -10%
- WLWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT - WESTERN PA OFFICEone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Provide information to decision maker in the pittsburgh region to promote economic prosperity, social equity, and environmental quality for sustainable solutions for communities and businesses.
The organization advocates with, empowers, and supports people with disabilities and their families throughout their lives.
Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the
To use our collective power and legal mandate to develop and secure public policies that ensure civil rights and expand options for all people with disabilities in all aspects of life.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
Center for victims offers a public service in allegheny county by helping individuals, families, and communities heal from the trauma of sexual assault/abuse, intimate partner violence, community violence, and all forms of violence and…
How this is measured
144 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. 144 of the 185 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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN IN EARLY RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LEAD ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CONNECTION OF PA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds East Suburban Citizen Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BLACKBURN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNCIL TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS-HOUSING INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AUTISM URBAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONAL PATHS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds RULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIDWIFE CENTER FOR BIRTH AND WOMEN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Consumer Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds HELLO NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION - LIVING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburghers for Public Transit ↗
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 · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Upmc Group · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Buhl Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fisa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fisa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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