Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS
GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,600 to it, the largest being CORNERSTONE TELEVISION INC ($47,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Greater Pittbrgh Area Mad Dads does
Mission
Greater pittsburgh area mad dads is a chapter of a nationally affiliated faith-based christian organization that prepares men to restore safe communities. Our mission is to mobilize, train and guide men to impact the issues of drugs, gangs and violence in allegheny county. We develop and implement neighborhood street patrols and community-based programs designed to maintain safer neighborhoods and communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mad dads are at its simplest concerned, loving parents who purposefully hold themselves to be positive role models and who are single-minded in their resolve to save communities from the mouth of the madness that is drugs, crimes and violence. They acknowledge god as the true source of their courage, ability and success these parents work to instill and restore christian values. They work with local community members to set an example of positive role models and be a visible force in changing neighborhoods across america. They address drug dealers, criminals, unsupervised youth and anyone else who is destroying the moral fabric in hard-to-reach, low income communities. This work is accomplished through grass-roots recruitment of community members to form chapters (the heart and soul of the national organization), developing street patrols and relationships with members of the community in order to be a conduit to much needed services, while modeling morals, practices, behaviors and values that address the desperately lacking competencies of many of our communities. A key ingredient to the success of mad dads is that they become a visible and vocal presence in neighborhoods across…
$164,056 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $164,056.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 $56k to $48k (−14%).
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.
90% of GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Al Merritt
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $8k.
From the IRS filings of GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
99% of GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS?
- GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $47,600 to it, the largest being CORNERSTONE TELEVISION INC ($47,100). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $47,600 in grants to GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS?
- CORNERSTONE TELEVISION INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER PITTBRGH AREA MAD DADS 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 2 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