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DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE
DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,749,631 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($5,027,109). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $378k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $9.7M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Daisy Wilson Artist Community Inc Dba August Wilson House does
Mission
To celebrate and promote the cultural, artistic and personal legacy of august wilson and to nurture black artists at all levels of development within the hill district, and the city of pittsburgh.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The august wilson house (awh), operated by dwac, preserves and activates the childhood home of pulitzer prize-winning playwright august wilson in pittsburgh's historic hill district.acquired to help revitalize the neighborhood and honor wilson's legacy, the property has been restored as a vibrant arts center rather than a static museum, in keeping with wilson's vision that it "should be useful."dwac was formed to celebrate wilson's literary contributions while fostering cultural renewal in the hill district. Its work bridges historic preservation, community development, and the arts-creating a place where artists, scholars, and residents engage in programs that reflect the neighborhood's rich african american heritage.since its inception, the awh has delivered free public programs and hosted arts fellowships, performances, exhibitions, readings, writing workshops, artist talks, and facilitated community conversations independently and through collaborative projects that advance the city's hill district master plan, strengthen connections to nearby cultural assets, and catalyze reinvestment along the bedford avenue corridor.in 2025, awh's community engagement and outreach efforts…
$697,740 spent$47,798 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $697,740.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.6M to $5.7M (+268%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 0% · 2021 4% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Denise Turner
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $150k → $904k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 57% · 2022 57% · 2023 77% — 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
67% of DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
52% of DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.7M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE?
- DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,749,631 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($5,027,109). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $9,749,631 in grants to DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,027,109 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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