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Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,600,373 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($2,000,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.4M
Funders on record
32
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$3.0M
19/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What Catapult Greater Pittsburgh does

Mission

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead digified & equitable lives.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Basics - This program helps low-income people become leaders as they develop and execute a plan to resolve poverty. It also pairs them with middle-income allies to increase their social capital and help improve their employment opportunities and financial well-being.

    $2,084,346 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Home Ownership and Financial Education - This program helps individuals and families understand budgeting and improve their financial stability by decreasing expenses and debt and increasing savings. It also works with people looking to become homeowners to improve their credit, get approved for a mortgage and find a home they can afford and take the necessary steps to maintain it as an asset.

  3. Entrepreneurial - This program works with low-income entrepreneurs to start or expand their small businesses. The program provides training and mentorship to entrepreneurs. Catapult also operates a retail incubator shop for business start ups to sell their products and services, test the market and refine their business strategy.

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,084,346.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($401k) Expenses 100 ($361k) Net assets 100 ($60k)2020 Revenue 153 ($613k) Expenses 199 ($719k) Net assets 172 ($103k)2021 Revenue 568 ($2.3M) Expenses 376 ($1.4M) Net assets 1714 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 314 ($1.3M) Expenses 583 ($2.1M) Net assets 299 ($179k)2023 Revenue 1547 ($6.2M) Expenses 636 ($2.3M) Net assets 6845 ($4.1M)2024 Revenue 595 ($2.4M) Expenses 975 ($3.5M) Net assets 4949 ($3.0M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (595)Expenses (975)Net assets (4949)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $588k to $4.6M (+683%).

$135k
$232k
$1.1M
$588k
$4.6M
$3.3M
201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of Catapult Greater Pittsburgh’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’19
−$107k
’20
$922k
’21
−$846k
’22
$3.9M
’23
−$1.1M
’24
3.1
months of
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

Tammy T Thompson

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed6699811
Joined·+1+6+0+0+3
No longer listed·13010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $500 → $2.4M.

9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 Catapult Greater Pittsburgh’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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

33% 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 Catapult Greater Pittsburgh.

23%
largest funder
60%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 2021 39% · 2022 23% · 2023 42% — 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

38% of Catapult Greater Pittsburgh's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

68% of Catapult Greater Pittsburgh's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CA
MO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,206 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−47% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,206 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 4%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Catapult Greater Pittsburgh?
Catapult Greater Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,600,373 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($2,000,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Catapult Greater Pittsburgh have?
IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $8,600,373 in grants to Catapult Greater Pittsburgh, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Catapult Greater Pittsburgh?
HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Catapult Greater Pittsburgh 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing