Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Fine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 100
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $737,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 131
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $176k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Fine Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 62 | $2.8M | 19% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $211k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.6M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $2.1M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $2.5M | 2% |
| FY2020 | 72 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 127 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 131 | $2.1M | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Institute | $6,767,500 | 9 | 2% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $1,911,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Jewish Association on Aging | $695,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History | $580,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association and Irene Kaufmann Cent | $335,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $267,175 | 5 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $230,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Morselife Foundation Inc | $202,500 | 5 | 1% |
| The Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh | $191,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Museum of Pittsburgh | $187,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 216 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($838k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fine Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 191 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 Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Opportunity Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh
How this is measured
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About The Fine Foundation
- How much does The Fine Foundation give?
- The Fine Foundation reported 100 grants totaling $2,921,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 131 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Fine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (49%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are The Fine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carnegie Institute ($6.8M), University of Pittsburgh ($1.9M), Jewish Association on Aging ($695k).
- Does The Fine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fine Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fine Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Heinz Endowments, Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation.
- Where is The Fine Foundation based?
- The Fine Foundation is based in PA.
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