· Public charity
Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc
To advance a more equitable community by increasing the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations that challenge injustice.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $1,476,308 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,560,832 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $84,524 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $417k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL | $165,000 |
| LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC | $74,569 |
| BALAFON WEST AFRICAN DANCE ENSEMBLE | $64,549 |
| SANKOFA VILLAGE | $63,860 |
| ALMA LEWIS | $63,125 |
| TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET | $62,481 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS PROJECT | $62,012 |
| JOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION | $61,740 |
| COMMUNITY ARTS EXPERIENCE | $60,439 |
| GUARDIANS OF SOUND | $60,228 |
| DAISY WILSON COMMUNITY | $60,136 |
| HILL CDC | $59,999 |
| ALUMNI THEATER COMPANY | $59,673 |
| JADA HOUSE INT | $58,211 |
| BLOOMFIELD GARFIELD CORP | $54,536 |
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 (FY17–25, $614k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- HCHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +285%
- 1M1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC3× · 2020–2022 · $191k · revenue +10%
- ATALUMNI THEATER COMPANY4× · 2021–2025 · $173k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- ACARCADE COMEDY THEATERone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -28%
- NSNEW SUN RISINGone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +18%
- GSGLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +97%
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 mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
To provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.
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Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.
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To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
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To present independent films from around the world to deepen audiences' understanding of culture, tolerance, and common humanity.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is When She Thrives. 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 142 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 GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Balafon West African Dance Ensemble ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds TEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds ALMA LEWIS ↗
- Who funds JOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD ↗
- Who funds Community Arts Experience INC ↗
- Who funds GUARDIANS OF SOUND ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JADA House International Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds WHEN SHE THRIVES ↗
- Who funds Farm To Table Buy Local ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CORAOPOLIS YOUTH CREATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Gwens Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW CENTURY CAREERS ↗
- Who funds Assemble Inc ↗
- Who funds Divine Intervention Ministries ↗
- Who funds A GIVING HEART ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH A PHILLIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds ARCADE COMEDY THEATER ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION POINT PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY START INC ↗
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 Heinz Endowments · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Poise Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · The Fine Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eden Hall 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 Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc 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.
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