· Public charity
Poise Foundation
Poise amplifies the power of black communities to fuel transformative change and uplift pathways to self-determination and shared success.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 111 grants below total $5,423,297 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,711,289 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $287,992 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 $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k67 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRIZE | $1,208,400 |
| ALLIANCE FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY | $384,725 |
| THE GENESIS COLLECTIVE | $142,180 |
| BLACK TECH NATION | $140,000 |
| MAYA ORGANIZATION | $130,000 |
| POORLAW | $110,916 |
| BIBLE CENTER CHURCH - THE OASIS PROJECT | $105,000 |
| FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PITTSBURGH | $90,000 |
| YOUTHPLACES | $80,000 |
| ZA'KIYAH HOUSE HOUSING | $80,000 |
| NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $75,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $75,000 |
| SQUIRREL HILL HEALTH CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE BRADLEY CENTER | $75,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $75,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 55 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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
- PTPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +167% · 73% of their budget
- HDHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE2× · 2020–2022 · $521k · revenue +106%
- 1M1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC3× · 2019–2024 · $311k · revenue +222%
Funded once
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
- CTCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $755k · revenue -23% · 34% of their budget
- AAAFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -74% · 47% of their budget
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.
The Pittsburgh Project is an urban neighborhood based, Christian community development organization that operates a series of youth development after school and summer programs and provides homeowner services for the elderly, disabled and…
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.
The pittsburgh metropolitan area hispanic chamber of commerce is the principal regional advocate for the hispanic business community's civic and economic interests. it is our mission to develop, promote, and advocate on behalf of hispanic…
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 development resources
We provide valuable culturally aligned learning processes designed to educate, insprire, and engage people to become change agents within their community(ies). we use technology, art, history, science, and research modules to address…
Our mission is address inequity by engaging our community in the making and appreciation of art.
Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anna Middleton Waite Learning Center. 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
199 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. 199 of the 321 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
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
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 PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds The Advanced Leadership Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds KENTE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds POORLAW ↗
- Who funds The Genesis Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH HARDBALL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS AND SISTERS EMERGING ↗
- Who funds Balafon West African Dance Ensemble ↗
- Who funds PEARLARTS MOVEMENT & SOUND ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF VISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ACH Clear Pathways ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPLACES ↗
- Who funds MAYA ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC OF PGH ↗
- Who funds AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE ↗
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 · The Heinz Endowments · Opportunity Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Grable Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Upmc Group · The Buhl 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Poise 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.