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Pnc Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83M
Granted FY2023
458
Grants FY2023
35
States reached
$876k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
03Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MEducation$2.5MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$911kHealth$675kSocial Science$500kHousing & Shelter$204kOther$0
02FY2023 · 458 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 458 grants below total $12,708,939 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $82,865,128 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,156,189 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k234 grants · $622k
  • $10k–50k175 grants · $3.5M
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $3.8M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
$8,250
Median grant
35
States reached
$166M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$876,450
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$720,846
University of Houston Foundation$510,000
Urban Institute$500,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC$450,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND FUND$450,000
WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$449,000
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute Cancer Services$325,000
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$272,712
WESTSIDE FUTURE FUND$250,000
University of Pittsburgh$233,950
URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION$225,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY$225,000
WISCONSIN WOMENS BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION$204,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$200,000
02Your 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.

1
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
2
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
3
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Westchester and Putnam

United way of westchester and putnam mobilizes strategic partnerships and leverages resources to create a more equitable community by advancing education, financial stability, and health initiatives.

Human Services
5
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
6
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
7
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
8
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Washington County

Our mission is to unite people, resources and organizations to improve lives in washington county. the united way of washington county envisions a community where everyone achieves their human potential through education, financial…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Wayne County Inc

United way of wayne county is a community based organization, working in partnership with local non-profit organizations to strategically address many of our community's social issues. united way of wayne county invested in a number of…

Philanthropy
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg and the most unlike its peers is Abbotsford Education Foundation Inc. 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 backsteadyUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…College Foundation SupportYmca Community CentersWomen's Empowerment Organiz…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Advocacy and …Charter and Independent Sch…Local History MuseumsCommunity Theater CompaniesClassical Music OrchestrasAffordable Housing Developm…Education Equity InitiativesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support CentersCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Hospital SystemsSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Food Pantries and AssistanceGirls Stem Education Progra…Developmental Disabilities …Veteran Support ServicesCivil Legal ServicesCommunity Literacy TutoringChristian Outreach Ministri…Government Accountability &…Animal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence and Sexua…Childhood Cancer SupportEarly Childhood Care CentersHospice and Palliative CareSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…
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 54 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr17%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%5%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr17%56%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/418
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/77,744

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.

03the grantee network

408 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. 408 of the 446 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)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
408/408
Grantees still filing
277/408
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RECIPIENT STATEMENT ATTACHED — $64,547,206 · OtherRECIPIENT STATEMENT ATTACHED+62 more — $2,831,613 · OtherTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $876,450 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $470,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $465,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $245,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY — $175,000 · Philanthropy+38 more — $1,376,300 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Chicago — $720,846 · EducationUniversity of Houston Foundation — $510,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $233,950 · EducationWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc — $128,250 · Education+23 more — $535,765 · EducationWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesUrban League of Broward County Inc — $200,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $200,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $67,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY — $50,000 · Human ServicesYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $50,000 · Human Services+29 more — $619,660 · Human ServicesWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $449,000 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION — $50,000 · Arts & Culture51 STEPS TO FREEDOM — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER — $37,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $323,535 · Arts & CultureTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $500,000 · Social ScienceUrban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area — $95,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $75,000 · Community ImprovementAccounting Aid Society — $50,000 · Community ImprovementVivians Door Inc — $40,000 · Community ImprovementACCESSITY — $37,500 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CIRCLE INCORPORATED — $30,000 · Community ImprovementMARYLAND RURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $28,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE CAPITAL CORPORATION — $25,000 · Community ImprovementLOCUS IMPACT FUND — $25,000 · Community Improvement16 TECH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $15,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,700 · Community Improvement
Other$67,378,819Philanthropy$3,607,750Education$2,128,811Human Services$1,436,660Arts & Culture$954,535Social Science$500,000Community Improvement$431,200

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $876,450 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $720,846 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Houston Foundation — $510,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO INC — $470,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND — $465,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $449,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWESTSIDE FUTURE FUND INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $245,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $233,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $225,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN WOMEN'S BUSINESS INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $204,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUrban League of Broward County Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WYOMING VALLEY — $175,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc — $128,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $110,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT-SLAUSON LDC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetACADEMY OF HOPE ADULT PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUrban League of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area — $95,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $95,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA — $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA COMMUNITY INVESTMENT FUND INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $67,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of South Hampton Roads — $64,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $61,200 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY TAR RIVER REGION — $60,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY — $59,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SUMMIT AND MEDINA — $55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetWilliiam H Douglas Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetWEALTH WATCHERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF ESSEX COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN IMPACT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA SOUTH FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAccounting Aid Society — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALTERS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $40,345 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY — $40,000 over 1y, 14% 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.

Firstenergy FoundationAT&T FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Wells Fargo FoundationTruist Foundation IncLumen Clarke M Willia…Tr Ua Fifth Third Fou…National Council of Y…Siemer InstituteUnited Way WorldwideUnited Way of Greater…The Westfield Insuran…
Firstenergy FoundationOH48.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Firstenergy Foundation · AT&T Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Tr Ua Fifth Third Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Siemer Institute · United Way Worldwide · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Westfield Insurance Foundation

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.

03Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pnc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pnc Foundation 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 446 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $81M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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