Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL
GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,249,052 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($4,285,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $7.2M
- Net assets
- $502k
What Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council does
Mission
By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts organizations (see sch o) throughout southwestern pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In fy25, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council advanced its mission to support and uplift the region's arts community through strategic investments in grants, advocacy, community engagement, and promotional initiatives that strengthened the creative sector across southwestern pennsylvania.grantmakingthe arts council awarded $779,500 in grants in fy25, directly benefiting 36 arts organizations and 207 individuals across southwestern pennsylvania. See sch othe arts council distributed $354,000 in one-time grants to artists who experienced income loss due to the covid-19 pandemic. These funds, provided by the pennsylvania department of community and economic development, were part of the state's pandemic relief efforts. Through the pennsylvania council on the arts' creative sector flex fund program, the arts council distributed $180,000 in grants to local arts organizations. An additional $88,000 supported creative entrepreneurs through the pca's creative entrepreneur accelerator program.the arts council also awarded $7,500 in grants to black artists through the black artist empowerment grant and partnered with program to aid citizen enterprise to distribute $150,000 in grants to…
$1,270,024 spentof which $788,286 as grants$18,840 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,270,024.
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 2017 to 2018, from $3.2M to $2.1M (−35%).
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 16% · 2018 37% · 2019 13% · 2020 28% · 2021 25% · 2022 36% · 2023 22% · 2024 39% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Fisher Patrick
CEO
Board chair
Bershik Beth
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $125k → $1.0M.
2 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL’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 PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 77% · 2019 64% · 2020 58% · 2021 56% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% — 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
57% of GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
100% of GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $793k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $845k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$845k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL
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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL?
- GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,249,052 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($4,285,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $7,249,052 in grants to GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $4,285,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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