· Public charity
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
Phlf works within a 250-mile radius of pittsburgh, pennsylvania to: identify and save historically significant places; renew historic neighborhoods, towns, and urban areas; preserve historic farms and historically designated landscapes; and educate people about the pittsburgh region's rich architectural heritage.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $119,896 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $195,257 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,361 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $12,000 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY | $10,600 |
| SHEPHERD'S HEART FELLOWSHIP | $10,000 |
| BAPTIST TEMPLE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| SIXTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CBURCH | $10,000 |
| PITTSBURGH NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF GOD | $9,690 |
| RESTORATION COMMUNITY CHURCH | $8,325 |
| KING OF KINGS BAPTIST CHURCH | $8,190 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $8,190 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $8,190 |
| UNION PROJECT | $7,500 |
| SPENCER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,211 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) 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.
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NHNEVILLE HOUSE ASSOCIATES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $118k · revenue +105% · 70% of their budget
- RBRosedale Block Cluster Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $58k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH4× · 2018–2024 · $38k
Funded once
- FEFIRST ENGLISH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CBCONGREGATION BETH SHALOMone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Tourism development organization dedicated to expanding the tourism economy across allegheny county.
The Organization's purpose is to formulate, implement and promote commercial, industrial and other economic development goals, strategies and projects in the City of Pittsburgh. This includes purchase and master-leasing of real estate, as…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
The builders association of metropolitan pittsburgh is a non-profit trade organization comprised of home builders, light commercial builders and associate members, including suppliers, subcontractors, lenders, manufacturers, utilities,…
See schedule othe allegheny conference on community development (accd) and affiliates - the greater pittsburgh chamber of commerce (chamber), the pennsylvania economy league of greater pittsburgh(pelgp) and the pittsburgh regional alliance…
Uptown partners is a community-based organization of residents, institutions, and business owners-working together to build a vibrant uptown community.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To promote the pork industry through consumer and farmer education, research, and promotion, and to meet the requirements of the national pork board (npb).
Riverlife's mission is to create, activate, and celebrate pittsburgh's riverfronts, connecting people through exceptional places and experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manchester Bidwell Corporation and the most unlike its peers is St Andrews Episcopal Church Jackson. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
13 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. 13 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NEVILLE HOUSE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Rosedale Block Cluster Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FCP SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE LIVING CITY ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Poise Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Upmc Group · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation 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.
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.