Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL
GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,552 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($4,285,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Bny Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pashared fundersportfolio match
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 (64% 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
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 19 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; 79% 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchPA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bny Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pashared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ellen and Jack Kessler Family Foundation C/O Jj Kesslerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocalPA · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
- Howard & Nell E Miller Foundatshared funderslocalPA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 85 organizations near you
- Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Jefferson Regional Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 144 organizations near you
- The Philip Chosky Charitable & Educational Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- Irene C Shea Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Schoonmaker J & L for Swkly Val Hospshared fundersPA · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- Allegheny County Medical Society Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 41 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL?
- GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,236,552 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 19 organizations giving $7,236,552 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 19funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing