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The Forbes Funds

To focus on strengthening the management capacity and impact of community nonprofits individually and collectively.

$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Community Improvement$958kHuman Services$411kHealth$335kHousing & Shelter$198kYouth Development$188kEnvironment$158kEducation$151kArts & Culture$137kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$40,000
PITTSBURGH NATIONAL YOUTH BOXING DBA TEAM 412PITTSBURGH BOX 412$30,000
PASSPORT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL$20,000
PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION$20,000
THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION$20,000
25 CARRICK AVE PROJECT DBA TECH 25$10,000
TZOHAR SEMINARY DBA TZOHAR ARTS$10,000
PITTSBURGH CURE SARCOMA$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CASA SAN JOSE: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $20k → 11%COMPUTER REACH: $10k → 11%AWAKEN PITTSBURGH: $30k → 11%SEWICKLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%SEWICKLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $8k → 11%WARD HOME: $6k → 11%NORTHERN AREA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY: $40k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $20k → 11%PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE COALITION: $10k → 11%MAYA ORGANIZATION: $19k → 11%NEW SUN RISING: $20k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%RUTH'S WAY INC: $10k → 11%MID-ATLANTIC NETWORK OF YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $8k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%PARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES OF PITTSBURGH: $28k → 11%BLIND AND VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES OF PGH: $20k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $20k → 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$773k · 19 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
87

Total granted

$773k
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+38%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • LC
    Larimer Consensus Group Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +201%
  • OB
    OPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $70k · revenue +36%
  • SS
    SHADOW STUDENT ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC
    2× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • TI
    TALKMEUP INC
    one grant, 2018 · $160k
  • B
    BLASTPOINT
    one grant, 2017 · $160k
  • CB
    CC BUSY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $110k
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
World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.

International
2
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

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

Arts & Culture
3
The Regional Opportunity Center D/B/a Vibrant Pittsburgh

Vibrant pittsburgh's mission is to accelerate the business community toward equitable, inclusive, and diverse workplaces, creating a future-forward region.

Arts & Culture
4
Scenic Pittsburgh

To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.

Environment
5
Pittsburgh Housing Development Corp

To initiate, plan, finance, develop and manage housing development in the City of Pittsburgh, and upon request, in other municipalities with particular, but not exclusive, emphasis on such development in low to moderate income census…

Housing & Shelter
6
Prevention Point Pittsburgh

To provide health empowerment services to injection drug users and prevent the spread of hiv.

Health
7
Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

Community Improvement
8
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
9
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
10
Community Action Commission

Commmunity action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions, for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services
11
Pittsburgh Technology Council

Membership organization formed to help tech companies succeed through a proven platform of business development, talent retention, government relations, and visibility services. companies at all growth stages use the pittsburgh technology…

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12
Bike Pittsburgh Inc

Bike pittsburgh is transforming our streets to make biking and walking commonplace for all pittsburghers in order to improve our quality of life and reduce the harmful effects of car dependence in our communities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Building Alliance; the most unlike its peers is The Citizen Science Lab. 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

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 113 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/100
Grantees still filing
72/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TALKMEUP INC: $160,000 · OtherTALKMEUP INCBLASTPOINT: $160,000 · OtherBLASTPOINTCC BUSY INC: $110,000 · OtherCC BUSY INCRUBITECTION INC: $110,000 · OtherRUBITECTION INCOPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC: $70,000 · OtherSIGN-TRACK: $60,000 · OtherHIBERSENSE INC: $60,000 · OtherHILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $59,999 · OtherLarimer Consensus Group Inc: $70,000 · Other+46 more: $791,491 · Other+46 moreVISABILITY: $47,500 · Human ServicesVISABILITYNORTHERN AREA MULTI-SERVICE CENTER OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN AREA MU…AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesAMACHI PITTSBURG…Awaken Pittsburgh: $30,000 · Human ServicesAwaken Pittsburg…Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition: $30,000 · Human ServicesPediatric Pallia…SEWICKLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,500 · Human ServicesCASA SAN JOSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $20,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEW SUN RISING: $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · Human ServicesMAYA ORGANIZATION: $19,000 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $53,970 · Human Services+6 moreSHADOW STUDENT ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentPITTSBURGH NATIONAL YOUTH BOXING: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRAILS Ministries: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTICKETS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentGwens Girls Inc: $13,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentCANCER BRIDGES: $40,000 · HealthConsumer Health Coalition: $28,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY LIVING AND SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · HealthADAGIO HEALTH INC: $20,000 · HealthALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING: $20,000 · HealthHOPE GROWS: $15,000 · HealthPITTSBURGH CURE SARCOMA: $10,000 · HealthMACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTUBE CITY RENAISSANCE: $20,000 · Community ImprovementSquirrel Hill Urban Coalition: $20,000 · Community ImprovementUPTOWN PARTNERS OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP: $20,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP: $15,000 · Community ImprovementWILKINSBURG COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DATA ROUNDTABLE: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHilltop Alliance: $7,500 · Community ImprovementTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $35,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH: $30,000 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $25,000 · EnvironmentGROUNDED STRATEGIES: $20,000 · EnvironmentSTREETS RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION DBA WATERSHEDS OF SOUTH PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EnvironmentGREEN BUILDING ALLIANCE: $20,000 · EnvironmentPA CLEANWAYS OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentSISTERS PLACE INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSKYLINE RESIDENCES: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterPerry Hilltop CItizens Council Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $9,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,651,490Human Services$437,970Youth Development$183,000Health$178,000Community Improvement$172,500Environment$170,000Housing & Shelter$144,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLarimer Consensus Group Inc: $70,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC: $70,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSISTERS PLACE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $59,999 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSHADOW STUDENT ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMACEDONIA FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVISABILITY: $47,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER BRIDGES: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $40,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGLOBAL SOLUTIONS PITTSBURGH: $40,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSKYLINE RESIDENCES: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHREE RIVERS WATERKEEPER: $35,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetRADIANT HALL STUDIOS: $32,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHOMEWOOD CHIDREN'S VILLAGE: $31,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAwaken Pittsburgh: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetPITTSBURGH NATIONAL YOUTH BOXING: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSUSTAINABLE PITTSBURGH: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPediatric Palliative Care Coalition: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHEALTHY START INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetConsumer Health Coalition: $28,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetGLOBAL LINKS: $27,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALLEGHENY LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING AND SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAllegheny County Library Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION: $20,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCASA SAN JOSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERS FOR QUALITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAssemble Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAME: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDED STRATEGIES: $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMAINSTAY LIFE SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITIZEN SCIENCE LAB: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPRESSLEY RIDGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSquirrel Hill Urban Coalition: $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetADAGIO HEALTH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAILS Ministries: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSTREETS RUN WATERSHED ASSOCIATION DBA WATERSHEDS OF SOUTH PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% 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 Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The Heinz EndowmentsRichard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Staunton Farm Foundat…Upmc GroupPoise FoundationEden Hall FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…Jefferson Regional Fo…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA99.1× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 The Forbes Funds funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Forbes Funds. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
46report 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.

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 113 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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