How much does The Birmingham Foundation give?

The Birmingham Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,210,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Birmingham Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (16%), Youth Development (15%).

Who are The Birmingham Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Brashear Association Inc ($648k), Lighthouse Memorial Christian Center ($387k), Trying Together ($192k).

Does The Birmingham Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Birmingham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Birmingham Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation.

Where is The Birmingham Foundation based?

The Birmingham Foundation is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Private foundation

The Birmingham Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 35
Organizations funded FY2024: 34%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 42; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $25M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The Birmingham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	29	$1.2M	17%
FY2024	35	$1.4M	34%
FY2023	42	$1.2M	67%
FY2022	33	$1.3M	52%
FY2021	34	$1.1M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$1.8MEducation$986kYouth Development$931kRecreation & Sports$682kReligion$392kHealth$364kHousing & Shelter$292kCommunity Improvement$179kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Brashear Association Inc	$647,937	5	14%
Lighthouse Memorial Christian Center	$386,500	5	n/a
Trying Together	$191,500	2	2%
Mommys Imagination Station Inc	$187,417	4	48%
Hello Neighbor	$175,000	3	8%
Literacy Pittsburgh	$151,000	3	1%
The Early Excellence Project	$150,000	2	12%
Shadow Student Athlete Development Services Inc	$138,000	2	21%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy	$125,000	3	1%
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation	$120,000	3	1%

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All grantees of The Birmingham Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Brashear Association Inc	$647,937	5	14%
Lighthouse Memorial Christian Center	$386,500	5	n/a
Trying Together	$191,500	2	2%
Mommys Imagination Station Inc	$187,417	4	48%
Hello Neighbor	$175,000	3	8%
Literacy Pittsburgh	$151,000	3	1%
The Early Excellence Project	$150,000	2	12%
Shadow Student Athlete Development Services Inc	$138,000	2	21%
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy	$125,000	3	1%
The Pittsburgh Promise Foundation	$120,000	3	1%
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation	$117,000	3	0%
Beltzhoover Neighborhood Council	$117,000	4	n/a
A Giving Heart	$111,535	4	35%
Hilltop Community Childrens Center	$100,000	1	9%
A Schools Pittsburgh's Community Alliance for Public Education	$100,000	2	5%
Hilltop Alliance	$90,000	4	2%
Sisters Place Inc	$90,000	2	4%
Beverly's Pgh	$85,000	3	1%
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh	$80,000	3	3%
Maya Organization	$80,000	3	5%
Venture Outdoors Inc	$75,417	4	2%
Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh	$70,000	2	3%
NurturePA Inc	$68,000	2	17%
The Watson Institute	$55,000	2	0%
Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania	$50,000	1	1%
Allies for Children	$50,000	1	6%
Level-Equity Building Inc	$40,000	1	36%
Abiding Missions	$40,000	2	8%
Wqed Multimedia	$40,000	1	0%
CASA of Allegheny County	$40,000	2	3%
Beltzhoover Consensus Group	$40,000	1	68%
Neighborhood Allies Inc	$35,000	2	0%
Esteem Group Inc	$33,000	2	14%
Reading Ready Pittsburgh	$30,000	1	2%
Sto-Rox Neighborhood Health Council Inc	$30,000	1	1%
Pittsburgh Scholar House Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Depaul School for Hearing and Speech	$25,000	2	0%
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Pittsburgh	$20,000	1	0%
Grow Pittsburgh	$20,000	1	1%
Storehouse for Teachers D/B/A the Education Partnership	$20,000	1	0%
Casa San Jose	$20,000	1	1%
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh	$20,000	1	0%
Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education	$20,000	1	2%
25 Carrick Ave Project	$20,000	1	2%
Common Threads	$16,000	2	0%
The Latino Community Center Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh	$15,000	1	2%
Cancer Bridges	$15,000	1	2%
Safe Families for Children Alliance	$10,000	1	0%
Apraxia Kids	$10,000	1	1%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Pittsburgh and Morgantown Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Children's Sickle Cell Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	1%
Tickets for Kids Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Bartko Foundation	$3,000	1	2%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

The Birmingham Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 52.

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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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA72× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation · Poise Foundation · McElhattan Foundation · McAuley Ministries · Fisa 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.

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About The Birmingham Foundation

How much does The Birmingham Foundation give?: The Birmingham Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $1,210,767 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 42 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Birmingham Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Education (16%), Youth Development (15%).
Who are The Birmingham Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: The Brashear Association Inc ($648k), Lighthouse Memorial Christian Center ($387k), Trying Together ($192k).
Does The Birmingham Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Birmingham Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Birmingham Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation.
Where is The Birmingham Foundation based?: The Birmingham Foundation is based in PA.