· Private foundation
Pittsburgh Child Guidance 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 · $56k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILYLINKS | $15,000 |
| SOJOURNER HOUSE | $15,000 |
| HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND | $13,500 |
| YOUTH GUIDANCE (BECOMING A MAN) | $12,500 |
| DRAGON'S DEN | $12,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER | $12,000 |
| OPEN UP | $10,000 |
| EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $10,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH PROJECT | $10,000 |
| YOUNG BLACK MOTIVATED KINGS AND QUEENS | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEARNING ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| SCHOOLS THAT CAN | $10,000 |
| CAFE MOMENTUM | $10,000 |
| BROOKLINE TEEN OUTREACH | $9,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $530k) 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
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 Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 90%.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +125%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH8× · 2018–2025 · $94k · revenue +90%
- AVALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES6× · 2018–2023 · $86k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TRTHREE RIVERS YOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +63%
- AIALLEGHENY INTERMEDIATE UNITone grant, 2018 · $14k
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGHone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -37%
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.
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…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
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.
Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…
Ywca greater pittsburgh is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. we envision a community that advances education, opportunity, and equity regardless of gender, race, or…
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.
Cafe momentum pittsburgh transforms young lives by equipping the community's most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential.
To recruit and train community members to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children.
The global switchboard stewards a diverse network of people and organizations to promote equitable global engagement in the pittsburgh region. we strive to build a region where all people value diversity, practice empathy, and work…
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 76 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 SOUTH HILLS INTERFAITH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY VALLEY ASSOCIATION OF CHURCHES ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILYLINKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH'S PLACE PITTSBURGH RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM HAVEN OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SERENITY LIVING TRANSITIONAL HOME ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGON'S DEN ↗
- Who funds ART EXPRESSION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Brookline Teen Outreach ↗
- Who funds The Pittsburgh Project ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE MOMS ↗
- Who funds STEEL CITY SQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING ↗
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 Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Upmc Group
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pittsburgh Child Guidance Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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