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Poise Foundation

Poise amplifies the power of black communities to fuel transformative change and uplift pathways to self-determination and shared success.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$5.8MCommunity Improvement$4.3MCrime & Legal$3.5MEducation$1.8MHuman Services$1.8MYouth Development$1.6MHealth$1.4MPublic Benefit$1.2MOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 46 grants below total $1,107,440, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,340,816 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $233,376 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $301k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $704k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW SUN RISING$106,000
POISE FOUNDATION$94,077
ATTACK THEATRE INC$75,000
HILL DISTRICT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION$74,400
ALUMNI THEATRE COMPANY$70,000
YOUNG BLACK MOTIVATED KINGS AND QUEENS$65,000
BEAVER COUNTY FOUNDATION$55,000
THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB$55,000
TOUCHSTONE CENTER FOR CRAFTS$55,000
ALLIANCE FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY$54,474
PITTSBURGH HARDBALL ACADEMY$47,208
RISE UP 365$46,500
CORNELL UNIVERSITY - COLLEGE OF VETRINARY MEDICINE$30,000
YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH$22,733
HEALING CITIES INC$20,000
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 (FY19–25, $2.2M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IT TAKES PHILLY: $25k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $75k → 11%REALITY SPEAKING INC: $20k → 7%CASA SAN JOSE: $50k → 11%CHILDREN'S FIRST: $25k → 22%THE FAMILY LIFE CENTER: $15k → 10%TRANSYOUNITING PGH: $25k → 11%THE BRASHEAR ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 11%THE EDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $20k → 22%REBLOOM: $25k → 11%MOMMY'S IMAGINATION STATION INC: $17k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $75k → 11%THAW INC: $21k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $20k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $20k → 11%THAW INC: $20k → 11%EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $15k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $23k → 11%TRANSYOUNITING PGH: $60k → 11%FOUNDATION OF HOPE: $25k → 11%URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%MAYA ORGANIZATION: $130k → 11%SISTERS PGH: $70k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $106k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $51k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $75k → 11%THE BRADLEY CENTER: $75k → 11%PITTSBURGH MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR (DBA BEAM COLLABORATIVE): $20k → 11%POORLAW: $111k → 11%POORLAW: $109k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $25k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $22k → 11%POORLAW: $15k → 11%THE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $55k → 11%BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 11%BETHANY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 11%UNITED SOMALI BANTU GREATER PITTS: $20k → 11%CIVICALLY INC: $50k → 11%RUTH'S WAY INC: $20k → 11%RUTH'S WAY INC: $20k → 11%WOMEN EMPOWERED FOR ENTREPRENEURIAL: $25k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $75k → 11%REIMAGINE REENTRY INC: $25k → 11%MELANIN MOMMIES PGH INC: $25k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
CO
VA
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 118 repeat orgs$8.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

118 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 97 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
202

Total granted

$16M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

73%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $512k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • PT
    PROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +167% · 73% of their budget
  • HD
    HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $521k · revenue +106%
  • 1M
    1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $311k · revenue +222%

Funded once

  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
  • CT
    COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $755k · revenue -23% · 34% of their budget
  • AA
    AFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -74% · 47% of their budget
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
True T Pittsburgh
Human Services
2
Heights Philadelphia

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…

Education
3
Belmont Alliance Civic Association

Community development resources

Youth Development
4
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
5
Artsmiths of Pittsburgh Art and Cultural Center Inc

Our mission is address inequity by engaging our community in the making and appreciation of art.

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6
Healthy Village Learning Institute

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…

Youth Development
7
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
8
Bethel Trinity Community Development

Bethel trinity community development corporation is a nonprofit that exists to restore, rebuild, and empower communities, especially in pittsburgh's hill district, by adressing systemic inequities through holistic, faith-driven development…

Philanthropy
9
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
10
Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

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…

Community Improvement
11
Achieveability

Strives to permanently break the cycle of poverty for philadelphia families

Housing & Shelter
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hosanna House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

214 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 214 of the 345 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.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
204/214
Grantees still filing
114/214
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY: $2,266,199 · OtherALLIANCE FOR POLICE ACCOUNTABILITYAFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $500,250 · OtherHILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $389,650 · OtherPOISE FOUNDATION: $544,604 · OtherPOISE FOUNDATION+98 more: $5,853,855 · Other+98 moreAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $1,076,601 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTUR…COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $755,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJE…HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $520,500 · Arts & CultureHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEA…1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $310,609 · Arts & Culture1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INCTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT…Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company: $250,000 · Arts & CultureKENTE ARTS ALLIANCE: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HORIZON THEATER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureThe Genesis Collective Inc: $231,780 · Arts & CulturePEARLARTS MOVEMENT & SOUND: $171,667 · Arts & CultureBalafon West African Dance Ensemble: $171,667 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $802,304 · Arts & Culture+13 morePROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC: $3,255,420 · HealthPROGRAM TO AID C…+5 more: $218,500 · Health+5 morePOORLAW: $247,700 · Human ServicesPOORLAWNEW SUN RISING: $177,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN R…MAYA ORGANIZATION: $130,000 · Human ServicesMAYA ORGA…CASA SAN JOSE: $125,000 · Human ServicesCASA SAN …YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $121,608 · Human ServicesYOUTH ENR…AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $113,743 · Human ServicesAMACHI PI…TRANSYOUNITING: $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRADLEY CENTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $75,000 · Human Services+26 more: $903,651 · Human Services+26 moreThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $1,165,601 · Public BenefitMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $500,000 · Public BenefitLETS GET FREE- THE WOMEN & TRANS: $100,000 · Public BenefitTHE HEAR FOUNDATION: $1,106,379 · Crime & LegalCAFE MOMENTUM PITTSBURGH: $45,000 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $117,909 · Crime & LegalTRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $250,173 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $107,450 · EducationCornell University: $90,000 · EducationTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC: $90,000 · EducationREDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $89,514 · EducationYoung Black Motivated Kings & Queen: $82,500 · EducationFAME: $75,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: $70,000 · EducationPROTOTYPE PGH INC: $60,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $47,824 · Education+11 more: $248,320 · Education
Other$9,554,558Arts & Culture$5,060,128Health$3,473,920Human Services$2,128,702Public Benefit$1,765,601Crime & Legal$1,269,288Education$1,260,781

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROGRAM TO AID CITIZEN ENTERPRISE INC: $3,255,420 over 3y, 73% of budgetThe Advanced Leadership Institute Inc: $1,165,601 over 2y, 23% of budgetTHE HEAR FOUNDATION: $1,106,379 over 3y, 92% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER: $1,076,601 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATION: $755,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPOISE FOUNDATION: $544,604 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetHILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE: $520,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetAFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INC: $500,250 over 1y, 47% of budgetMANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION: $500,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $310,609 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $270,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPITTSBURGH HARDBALL ACADEMY INC: $263,705 over 5y, 64% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $250,173 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company: $250,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetKENTE ARTS ALLIANCE: $250,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetNEW HORIZON THEATER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetPOORLAW: $247,700 over 4y, 49% of budgetThe Genesis Collective Inc: $231,780 over 2y, 68% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $221,667 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetUJAMAA COLLECTIVE: $201,667 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetBROTHERS AND SISTERS EMERGING: $180,900 over 2y, 19% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $177,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPEARLARTS MOVEMENT & SOUND: $171,667 over 2y, 26% of budgetWOMEN OF VISIONS INC: $171,667 over 2y, 64% of budgetBalafon West African Dance Ensemble: $171,667 over 2y, 70% of budgetACH Clear Pathways: $159,555 over 3y, 11% of budgetYOUTHPLACES: $140,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMAYA ORGANIZATION: $130,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $130,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $125,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $121,608 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $113,743 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetFILIPINO AMERICAN ASSOC OF PGH: $112,400 over 2y, 63% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $107,450 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $106,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLETS GET FREE- THE WOMEN & TRANS: $100,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE EQUITY IMPACT CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetZa kiyah House Housing: $95,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetCornell University: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC: $90,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetREDEEMER LUTHERAN SCHOOL: $89,514 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $85,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetYoung Black Motivated Kings & Queen: $82,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetFranklin Center of Beaver County: $81,960 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetUNION PROJECT: $75,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE BRADLEY CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATTACK THEATRE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetWOMEN IN TECH PGH: $75,000 over 1y, 86% 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…The Heinz EndowmentsOpportunity FoundationHillman Family Founda…The Grable FoundationEden Hall FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Program to Aid Citize…Staunton Farm Foundat…McElhattan FoundationUpmc GroupThe Buhl Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA144.3× affinity165 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Poise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 345 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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