· Private foundation
Willis Hilda M Foundation No 2
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH OPERA | $150,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF HOMESTEAD | $150,000 |
| PITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATRE | $50,000 |
| THE PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST | $50,000 |
| PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE | $50,000 |
| EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $25,000 |
| CITY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPITTSBURGH OPERA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
- WTWINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +17%
- GPGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK2× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -18%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +42%
- RKRAINBOW KITCHENone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
To provide a nurturing, collaborative environment for artists, leveraging people, space and technology to create and present challenging and dynamic art.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
To create a space in our communities through education and cultural experiences that celebrate the joy of discovery and entertainment.
To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.
Quantum theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in…
The museum's mission is to provide innovative and inclusive museum experiences that inspire kindness, joy, creativity and curiosity for all learners.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PITTSBURGH OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Library of Homestead ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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: Allegheny Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Federated Investors Foundation Inc · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · Eden Hall Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Wi Patterson Charitable Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Willis Hilda M Foundation No 2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Willis Hilda M Foundation No 2. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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