Pennsylvania · Public charity
The Forbes Funds
To focus on strengthening the management capacity and impact of community nonprofits individually and collectively.
- $170k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations The Forbes Funds funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $160k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $210k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $305k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $233k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $300k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $400k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $555k | 95% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $754k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talkmeup Inc | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blastpoint | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cc Busy Inc | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rubitection Inc | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Larimer Consensus Group Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Operation Better Block Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Sisters Place Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Sign-Track | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hibersense Inc | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hill House Association | $59,999 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 110 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Forbes Funds supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 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 · Hillman Family Foundations · The Heinz Endowments · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Upmc Group · Poise Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Jefferson Regional Foundation
How this is measured
About The Forbes Funds
- How much does The Forbes Funds give?
- The Forbes Funds reported 9 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Forbes Funds fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (33%), Human Services (14%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Forbes Funds's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Talkmeup Inc ($160k), Blastpoint ($160k), Cc Busy Inc ($110k).
- Does The Forbes Funds fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Forbes Funds?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The Heinz Endowments.
- Where is The Forbes Funds based?
- The Forbes Funds is based in PA.
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