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A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,471,466 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,590,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $928k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $651k
What A Schools Pittsburgh's Community Alliance for Public Education does
Mission
To focus our community's energy on improving student performance in the pittsburgh public schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
4a. City-wide: we work at a city-wide level to convene partners to end chronic absenteeism through the pittsburgh learning collaborative (plc), stand up initiatives that are co-designed with plc members to address key issues, and provide coordinated supports for funding, communications, and data. This work looks at systemic barriers to success and allows us to bring over 70 organizations and individuals together to advocate for change.a. Pittsburgh learning collaborative (plc): the plc is made up of over 125 organizations across multiple sectors (education, out of school time, health, transportation, housing, and development) that convene every other month as a whole to share resources, identify challenges, and find solutions to issues that are impeding getting children to school. A+ schools provides coordinated supports for funding, communications, and data: these supports include strategic relationships with foundations, corporations, and patrons to provide the on-going financial support needed to support equitable learning outcomes; communications campaigns and materials to raise awareness about learning needs and opportunities; data gathering and reporting around learning…
$492,399 spent20% of program spending4b. Students, families, and schools: the organization's students, families, and school strategies provide families direct support to make sure their learners are thriving in schools where students and staff are excited to be.a. Circle our schools: working with collaboratives of school-based stakeholders including students, families, staff, administrators, and community partners to address school-related needs and issues via planning, facilitation, and implementation support. Currently, this work is happening at perry high school, arlington prek-8, and university preparatory academy at margaret milliones school. Our goal is to learn what works from these schools and continue expanding a set of supports to other schools in the coming year with a focus on increasing daily attendance and eliminating chronic absenteeism. We are working in partnership with three key communities through grants from local foundations: pittsburgh's northside, hill district, and hilltop neighborhoods.b. Expanding partnerships: as we continue to learn and make an impact, we have begun engagement with more schools in the past year to improve their attendance outcomes through financial and coordinating…
$596,388 spentof which $24,271 as grants$8,790 earned by the program25% of program spendingOther programs include fiscal sponsorship with total expenses of $1,327,596 and grant awards of $426,600.
$1,327,596 spentof which $426,600 as grants55% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,416,383.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.4M to $763k (−68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
James Fogarty
Executive director
Board chair
Diana Bucco
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $180k → $1.9M.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 49% · 2019 46% · 2020 51% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION?
- A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,471,466 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,590,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $7,471,466 in grants to A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A SCHOOLS PITTSBURGH'S COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing