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Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc

To advance a more equitable community by increasing the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations that challenge injustice.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$830kYouth Development$534kHuman Services$441kHousing & Shelter$247kEmployment$173kHealth$170kEducation$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $1,476,308, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,560,832 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $84,524 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $417k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASA SAN JOSE: $10k → 11%THE OPEN DOOR: $12k → 11%MELANIN MOMMIES PGH INC: $6k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES: $43k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES: $29k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES: $21k → 11%JEREMIAHS PLACE: $10k → 11%YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES: $9k → 11%CITY OF ASYLUM: $25k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $31k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $14k → 11%NORTH SIDE PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: $7k → 11%JADA HOUSE INT: $71k → 11%JADA HOUSE INT: $58k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $21k → 11%JADA HOUSE INT: $18k → 11%CENTER OF LIFE: $10k → 11%SEE CLEAR: $15k → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 11%CREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS: $10k → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $56k → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $36k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $29k → 11%WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $21k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $8k → 11%GREATER VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 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.
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 52 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
74

Total granted

$5.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

94%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HC
    HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +285%
  • 1M
    1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $191k · revenue +10%
  • AT
    ALUMNI THEATER COMPANY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $173k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • AC
    ARCADE COMEDY THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -28%
  • NS
    NEW SUN RISING
    one grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +18%
  • GS
    GLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +97%
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
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

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)

Arts & Culture
2
New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts

To provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.

Arts & Culture
3
Pittsburgh Filmmakers Inc

The corporation advances excellence in the arts, including studio, media, and creative writing. to achieve its mission, the corporation provides equipment and facilities for individual artists, conducts educational programs, and stimulates…

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4
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

Pittsburgh center for creative reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.

Arts & Culture
5
Resonance Works

Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber…

Arts & Culture
6
Allentown Public Theatre

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture
8
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
9
Quantum Theatre Inc

Quantum theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in…

Arts & Culture
10
Film Pittsburgh

To present independent films from around the world to deepen audiences' understanding of culture, tolerance, and common humanity.

Arts & Culture
11
Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center Inc

Provide quality, diverse arts programming to impact our communities and enrich people's lives in the twin tiers

Arts & Culture
12
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Associated Artists of Pittsburgh; 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.
04the grantee network

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/124
Grantees still filing
80/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: $306,524 · Arts & CultureGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCILTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $236,797 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $191,000 · Arts & Culture1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INCDAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE: $175,272 · Arts & CultureDAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WI…Balafon West African Dance Ensemble: $173,127 · Arts & CultureBalafon West African Dance EnsembleALUMNI THEATER COMPANY: $172,945 · Arts & CultureALUMNI THEATER COMPANYSANKOFA VILLAGE: $157,720 · Arts & CultureSANKOFA VILLAGEALMA LEWIS: $156,249 · Arts & CultureALMA LEWISCommunity Arts Experience INC: $150,879 · Arts & CultureCommunity Arts Experience INCGUARDIANS OF SOUND: $150,516 · Arts & CultureGUARDIANS OF SOUND+44 more: $819,529 · Arts & Culture+44 moreHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $225,791 · OtherHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPO…WHEN SHE THRIVES: $114,655 · OtherWHEN SHE THRIVESWESTERN PA COMMUNITY OF HOPE: $81,600 · OtherBIBLE CENTER CHURCH INC: $76,000 · OtherJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $153,209 · OtherJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATIONTEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $161,062 · OtherTEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLETFarm To Table Buy Local: $110,000 · OtherFarm To Table Buy LocalDivine Intervention Ministries: $66,000 · Other+45 more: $837,281 · Other+45 moreJADA House International Inc: $146,692 · Human ServicesJADA House…WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $122,325 · Human ServicesWESTERN PE…YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $101,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH ENRI…AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $48,500 · Human ServicesAMACHI PIT…CENTER OF LIFE: $31,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING: $30,974 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF ASYLUM: $25,000 · Human Services+8 more: $79,750 · Human Services+8 moreUJAMAA COLLECTIVE: $171,000 · Community ImprovementBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $149,073 · Community ImprovementMACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $51,500 · Community ImprovementUNION PROJECT: $25,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $24,000 · Community ImprovementCORAOPOLIS YOUTH CREATION INC: $99,600 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC: $86,400 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $76,800 · Youth DevelopmentGwens Girls Inc: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROTHERS AND SISTERS EMERGING: $35,724 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTHY VILLAGE LEARNING INSTITUTE: $24,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH: $103,200 · EmploymentNEW CENTURY CAREERS: $70,000 · EmploymentPITTSBURGH A PHILLIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE EDUCATION FUND: $58,000 · EmploymentVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $151,627 · Housing & ShelterA GIVING HEART: $61,000 · Housing & ShelterZa kiyah House Housing: $12,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$2,690,558Other$1,825,598Human Services$613,741Community Improvement$420,573Youth Development$407,524Employment$231,200Housing & Shelter$225,127

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 budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: $306,524 over 3y, 20% of budgetTHE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC: $236,797 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $225,791 over 6y, 3.8% of budget1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC: $191,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetDAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE: $175,272 over 4y, 10% of budgetBalafon West African Dance Ensemble: $173,127 over 4y, 83% of budgetALUMNI THEATER COMPANY: $172,945 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetUJAMAA COLLECTIVE: $171,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetTEXTURE CONTEMPORARY BALLET: $161,062 over 4y, 16% of budgetSANKOFA VILLAGE: $157,720 over 3y, 35% of budgetALMA LEWIS: $156,249 over 3y, 22% of budgetJOSH GIBSON FOUNDATION: $153,209 over 3y, 16% of budgetVETERANS PLACE OF WASHINGTON BOULEVARD: $151,627 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Arts Experience INC: $150,879 over 3y, 55% of budgetGUARDIANS OF SOUND: $150,516 over 3y, 29% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $149,073 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetJADA House International Inc: $146,692 over 3y, 17% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA DIAPER BANK: $122,325 over 4y, 74% of budgetFarm To Table Buy Local: $110,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PITTSBURGH: $103,200 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $101,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCORAOPOLIS YOUTH CREATION INC: $99,600 over 4y, 16% of budgetHOPE FOR TOMORROW INC: $86,400 over 2y, 54% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $76,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGwens Girls Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW CENTURY CAREERS: $70,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAssemble Inc: $69,600 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetDivine Intervention Ministries: $66,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetA GIVING HEART: $61,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH A PHILLIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE EDUCATION FUND: $58,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $51,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $51,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $48,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetARCADE COMEDY THEATER: $48,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHEALTHY START INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFranklin Center of Beaver County: $36,090 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBROTHERS AND SISTERS EMERGING: $35,724 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetOpen Up: $34,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $33,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGATEWAY MEDICAL SOCIETY INC: $32,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCENTER OF LIFE: $31,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW SUN RISING: $30,974 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGH: $30,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $28,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetSOUTH PARK THEATRE INC: $27,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetPITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL CLASSIC THEATRE: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUNION PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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 Heinz EndowmentsThe Pittsburgh Founda…Opportunity FoundationHillman Family Founda…Poise FoundationThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…McKinney Charitable F…Staunton Farm Foundat…The Fine FoundationMcElhattan FoundationEden Hall Foundation
The Heinz EndowmentsPA141.2× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’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
    53report 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.
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    How do I get to Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 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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