Pennsylvania · Public charity
Steelers Charities
To actively promote youth sports, social justice and other charitable endeavors. The organization carries out its mission by making donations to tax-exempt public charities who support the mission and purpose of the organization through donations received by the corporation and public support from 50/50 raffles at professional sporting…
- $690k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $663k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $37,767
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $149,837
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Steelers Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $562k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $275k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $208k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $196k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $48k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $353k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $471k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $323k | 46% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art Rooney Scholarship Fund | $548,456 | 8 | 89% |
| Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research | $328,735 | 6 | 32% |
| Upmc Group | $250,380 | 6 | 0% |
| The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $199,635 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $174,695 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation | $173,782 | 8 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $145,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Cancer Bridges | $92,338 | 3 | 4% |
| Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs Inc | $83,251 | 5 | 1% |
| Steelers Charities | $68,978 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 47 grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steelers Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Pirates Charities · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · Fisa Foundation
How this is measured
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About Steelers Charities
- How much does Steelers Charities give?
- Steelers Charities reported 18 itemized grants totaling $663,295, out of $689,775 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steelers Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (30%), Philanthropy (28%), Education (16%).
- Who are Steelers Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Art Rooney Scholarship Fund ($548k), Chuck Noll Foundation for Brain Injury Research ($329k), Upmc Group ($250k).
- Does Steelers Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steelers Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Richard King Mellon Foundation.
- Where is Steelers Charities based?
- Steelers Charities is based in PA.
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