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Pittsburgh Community Services Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Pittsburgh Community Services Inc

Provide programs to help individuals and/or families achieve self-sufficiency.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$159kHuman Services$123kEnvironment$77kReligion$7kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY LINKS$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES$10,000
BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION 2005$10,000
OUR LADY OF ANGELS$7,084
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$2,797
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $9k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $9k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $8k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES: $6k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $10k → 11%FAMILY LINKS: $10k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $9k → 11%FAMILY LINKS: $8k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $7k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $7k → 11%FAMILY LINKS: $7k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $7k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $6k → 11%EAST END COOP MINISTRY: $6k → 11%FAMILY LINKS: $6k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION: $47k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION 2005: $10k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $7k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $7k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $6k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $3k → 11%BTC CENTER: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 6 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$281k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TB
    THE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +17%
  • EE
    EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +12%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • WP
    WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $77k · revenue +90%
  • BC
    BTC CENTER INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -58%
  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +13%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Kitchen Pittsburgh

Community kitchen pittsburgh is a nonprofit food service company. because poverty, food insecurity and employment are entwined issues, we work across these focus areas, engaging in the following activities: "culinary based workforce…

Food & Nutrition
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh

Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…

Human Services
3
Regional Workforce Collaborative - Swpa

To provide policy guidance, technical assistance, and program oversight for the city of pittsburgh and allegheny county, and to assist in the economic development of southwestern pa region.

Community Improvement
4
Family Service Association of Bucks County

Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…

Human Services
5
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh

Provide opportunties for individuals and families to grow in spirit, mind and body.

Human Services
6
Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…

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7
Turning Points for Children

To nurture families with children who are struggling against economic and environmental odds, giving them the critical resources, life skills and supportive partnerships to create stronger families and raise children with hope for a…

Human Services
8
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
9
Achieveability

Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families

Housing & Shelter
10
Pinebrook Family Answers

The agency's mission states "pinebrook family answers nurtures and empowers children, adults and families by providing mental health services and community-based programs throughout the greater lehigh valley. we do this through initiatives…

Human Services
11
Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley Inc

The mission of the community action committee of the lehigh valley is to improve the quality of life in the lehigh valley by building a community in which all people have access to economic opportunity, the ability to pursue that…

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12
Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association and Irene Kaufmann Cent

Nurturing people, connecting community, each day, through every age, inspired by jewish values.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is Btc Center Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $79,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INCEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $54,221 · Human ServicesEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRYJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $51,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGHFAMILYLINKS INC: $30,465 · Human ServicesFAMILYLINKS INCURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $27,671 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH+1 more: $8,071 · Human ServicesWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $77,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CO…OUR LADY OF ANGELS: $38,341 · OtherOUR LADY OF…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,931 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$251,228Environment$77,000Other$38,341Food & Nutrition$5,931

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $79,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY: $77,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $54,221 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $51,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYLINKS INC: $30,465 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $27,671 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,931 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Richard King Mellon F…Hillman Family Founda…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pittsburgh Community Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pittsburgh Community Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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