Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,389 to it, the largest being IRENE C SHEA FOUNDATION ($260,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $876k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh Inc does
Mission
The primary mission of the emmaus community of pittsburgh is to provide residential homes for persons with intellectual disabilities and autism, and to promote public awareness of thier needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Current programs and activities of the emmaus community of pittsburgh: residential program - emmaus currently operates fourteen permanent homes serving 30 individuals with intellectual disabilities. Emmaus is licensed and monitored by the state office of developmental programs. The emmaus community provides 24-hour per day supervision and support for adults with developmental disabilities. When an individual comes to emmaus, he or she comes for life. Community education and outreach - the emmaus community is committed to educating the community about the needs of adults with intellecutal and developmental disabilities and autism. Emmaus works with individuals and families to access needed services.
$7,596,472 spent$9,413,564 earned by the program91% of program spendingCommunity programs include the following activities: home and community habilitation and companion services - emmaus provides community support to individuals living with family or in their own homes. Respite services - emmaus provides planned short-term stays for individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism when their caregivers need a break or are experiencing a medical situation and cannot care for their loved ones. Respite stays can also be utilized when an individual would benefit from experiencing living arrangements outside the family home. Cultural diversity and outreach -recognizing that lack of knowledge about resources and language barriers were the main road blocks preventing families from finding help, emmaus created information brochures about our services in eight languages in addition to english.
$692,987 spent8% of program spendingCommunity relations and outreach program. The responsibilities of the director of community relations include but are not limited to: outreach to develop and promote positive and valuable relationships, both within the emmaus community and with the community at large including businesses, church and civic groups, schools, colleges and universities, volunteers, donors, and others interested in the emmaus mission; facilitate and attend meetings to advocate for people with intellectual disabilities and autism and promote public awareness of their needs; pursue opportunities for public relations such as top workplaces, pittsburgh business times, and other outside nominations / survey opportunities; coordinate community education and outreach efforts including service fairs, speaking engagements, open houses, tours, and other special events; serve as volunteer coordinator - recruit, supervise, and plan all volunteer activity (both with individuals, and with groups including churches, schools, businesses, etc.); track all advocacy and volunteers activities; create and maintain emmaus archival / historical information on the agency; organize community events such as staff retreats, dsp…
$36,856 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,326,315.
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 2024 to 2025, from $8.4M to $11M (+33%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Karen Jacobsen
CEO
Board chair
Mark Caplan
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $61k → $129k.
8 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC raised.
From the IRS filings of EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 22% · 2019 65% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% — 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
24% of EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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.
Against its field
EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC
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
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh Fd · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC?
- EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $876,389 to it, the largest being IRENE C SHEA FOUNDATION ($260,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $876,389 in grants to EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC?
- IRENE C SHEA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $260,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC 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 34 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