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The Hear Foundation

To convene, fund, and implement initiatives that build police and resident relationships and strengthens pittsburgh neighborhoods.

$263k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
7
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$8,600
Largest grant, FY2023
$200,000
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$404k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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.

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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 Hear Foundation

How much does The Hear Foundation give?
The Hear Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $262,530 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does The Hear Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2023, its largest causes are Community Improvement (76%), Education (12%), Crime & Legal (4%).
Who are The Hear Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2023: New Sun Rising ($200k), A Schools Pittsburgh's Community Alliance for Public Education ($22k), Center for Victims ($11k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Hear Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation, Virginia a McKee for Poor Fund.
Where is The Hear Foundation based?
The Hear Foundation is based in PA.

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 7 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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