Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,009,552 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,635,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $60k
What Pittsburgh Area Community Schools does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to surround students with a community of supports empowering them to achieve in school and succeed in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The activities of the organization are dedicated to keeping kids in school and helping them succeed in life through a unique model of integrated student supports (iss). Iss is a school-based approach that connects students with supports targeting academic and non-academic barriers to achievement. The organization provides site coordination to improve attendance, improve behavior, improve course performance, and strives to promote students to the next grade level. Cis site coordination is a national evidence based model that is the core of communities in schools movement. Built on the principal that children who do not have support for the chronic issues that poverty causes and based on research developed from integrated student service delivery (iss), the site coordinators are positioned in the schools to help achieve school wide goals and provide critical supports to students who are at risk.
$3,167,446 spent$645,685 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,167,446.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $837k (−48%).
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 30% · 2018 51% · 2019 58% · 2020 49% · 2021 46% · 2022 22% · 2023 35% · 2024 58% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Bridget Clement
Executive director
Board chair
David Babst
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $149k → $590k.
4 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 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
PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 80% · 2018 73% · 2019 61% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 90% · 2023 68% — 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
18% of PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record.
- Department of Education$6.5M
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 PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS: 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 PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
- PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,009,552 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,635,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $3,009,552 in grants to PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,635,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH AREA COMMUNITY SCHOOLS 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 22 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