Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Halpern 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.
- $68k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $42,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Halpern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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 | 5 | $66k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $74k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $64k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $63k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $80k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $43k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cr Jrs Chip | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shady Side Academy | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Biggie's Bullies | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Nova Ukraine | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cr Jrs Chip | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shady Side Academy | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Biggie's Bullies | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 412 Food Rescue Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Nova Ukraine | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Squirrel Hill Urban Coalition | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institute | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $1,250 | 1 | 0% |
| Global Empowerment Mission Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Opera Inc | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Panther Ridge Conservation Center Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($324k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Halpern Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Halpern Foundation
- How much does Halpern Foundation give?
- Halpern Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $68,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Halpern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (57%), Religion (19%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Halpern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pittsburgh Symphony Inc ($18k), Cr Jrs Chip ($10k), Shady Side Academy ($6k).
- Does Halpern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Halpern Foundation 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 Halpern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Grable Foundation, The Heinz Endowments, Hillman Family Foundations.
- Where is Halpern Foundation based?
- Halpern Foundation is based in PA.
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