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New Sun Rising

To build vibrant communities through culture, sustainability, and opportunity.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MCommunity Improvement$380kHealth$241kEmployment$115kFood & Nutrition$90kYouth Development$65kEducation$53kHuman Services$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$70,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARPSBURG NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION$70,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $152k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $100k → 11%FOUNDATION OF HOPE: $12k → 11%AWAKEN PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%CENTER THAT CARES: $10k → 11%GREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Artsmiths of Pittsburgh Art and Cultural Center Inc

Our mission is address inequity by engaging our community in the making and appreciation of art.

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Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

Pittsburgh center for creative reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.

Arts & Culture
3
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
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Pennsylvania College of Technology Community Arts Center Inc

Contributing to our communities through artistic experiences and creative collaborations based on the following organization values: Promote Inclusivity--including the embrace and promotion of fairness, equity, diversity and inclusion,…

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Resonance Works

Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber…

Arts & Culture
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True T Pittsburgh
Human Services
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New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts

To provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.

Arts & Culture
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Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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9
Shakespeare in Clark Park

Shakespeare in Clark Park produces cultural events which bridge the gap between audiences and artists by inviting community members to take part in making and shaping our productions. Our productions are rooted in the people of…

Arts & Culture
10
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
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Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

The mission of the organization is the promotion of visual art through visual and verbal presentations and educational outreach programs. the organization provides a place for new art and attempts to stimulate and expand the public's…

Arts & Culture
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Barebones Productions Inc

Barebones productions is a pittsburgh theater company whose mission is to facilitate the growth of local theater artists through the production of challenging, entertaining, thought-provoking plays and to attract new, young audiences by…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Empowerment Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is When She Thrives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Arts OrganizationsDisability & Recovery Servi…Neighborhood Revitalization…Senior Affordable HousingFaith-Based Poverty ReliefHealthcare Professional Nur…Public LibrariesPittsburgh Regional Economi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number16%10%<5yr12%21%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr21%17%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr16%2%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value16%2%<5yr12%16%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr21%13%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
2/46
the rest of the field
8%
762/9,860

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
37/40
Grantees still filing
16/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION — $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATIONSHANA SIMMONS DANCE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSHANA SIMMONS DANCEAssemble Inc — $100,000 · Arts & CultureAssemble IncTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTDVILLAGE THEATER COMPANY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE THEATER COMPANYHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE — $100,000 · Arts & CultureHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRETHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INCSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHYTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTSThree Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras — $95,000 · Arts & CultureThree Rivers Young Peoples OrchestrasPittsburgh School for the Choral Arts — $75,000 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD NORTH MUSEUM OF PLAY — $74,325 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL — $67,747 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $65,000 · Arts & CultureBalafon West African Dance Ensemble — $61,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $17,500 · Arts & CulturePROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $231,000 · HealthPROGRAM TO…IMAGINE FURTHER COLLECTIVE INC — $10,000 · HealthBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOMFIEL…COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY…CASA SAN JOSE — $100,000 · Human ServicesAwaken Pittsburgh — $20,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION OF HOPE INC — $11,710 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER THAT CARES — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARPSBURG NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION — $70,000 · OtherSHARPSBURG …A S VISION — $20,000 · OtherA S VISIONWHEN SHE THRIVES — $15,000 · OtherWHEN SHE TH…NORTH WAY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY — $10,000 · OtherPittsburgh Public Schools — $10,000 · OtherTHE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA — $20,000 · OtherTHE MENTORI…PITTSBURGH NATIONAL YOUTH BOXING — $15,000 · OtherPITTSBURGH …HOPE FOR TOMORROW INC — $12,500 · OtherOZANAM INC — $12,500 · OtherMillvale Community Library — $10,000 · OtherDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $10,000 · OtherTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 · OtherTRADE INSTI…+6 more — $41,500 · Other+6 moreBeaver County Regional Council of Governments — $100,000 · Public BenefitFarm To Table Buy Local — $90,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$1,455,572Health$241,000Community Improvement$200,000Human Services$151,710Other$261,500Public Benefit$100,000Food & Nutrition$90,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC — $231,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION — $200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSHANA SIMMONS DANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetAssemble Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBeaver County Regional Council of Governments — $100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE MATTRESS FACTORY LTD — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetVILLAGE THEATER COMPANY — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE — $100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS — $100,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetThree Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras — $95,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFarm To Table Buy Local — $90,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetPittsburgh School for the Choral Arts — $75,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD NORTH MUSEUM OF PLAY — $74,325 over 1y, 80% of budgetSHARPSBURG NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION — $70,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL — $67,747 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $65,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBalafon West African Dance Ensemble — $61,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTHE MENTORING PARTNERSHIP OF SW PA — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAwaken Pittsburgh — $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH NATIONAL YOUTH BOXING — $15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetOZANAM INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE INC — $11,710 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMillvale Community Library — $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Genesis Collective Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCORAOPOLIS YOUTH CREATION INC — $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetECOSOCIALIST HORIZONS INC — $7,000 over 1y, 17% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsOpportunity FoundationHillman Family Founda…Poise FoundationProgram to Aid Citize…Richard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationEden Hall FoundationStaunton Farm Foundat…Arts Equity & Educati…McCune Foundation Pnc…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA73.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Opportunity Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Poise Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Arts Equity & Education Fund · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization New Sun Rising funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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
    17report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to New Sun Rising?

    Find your warmest path to New Sun Rising 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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