Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE
PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,543 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($130,913). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $580k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $351k
- Net assets
- $248k
What Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse does
Mission
Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creative reuse center: we accept donations of reusable materials and make them available at low or no cost to educators, artists, and the general public in our shop. In 2024 we logged 27k transactions in our center. By accepting, processing, and redistributing reusable materials from businessess and individuals, our center diverted over 52 tons of potential waste from landfills, keeping resources in our community, supporting artists and educators, and reducing the negative environmental impacts of consumption.
$289,048 spent$316,242 earned by the program73% of program spendingCreative education programs: our education programs provide hands-on creative learning opportunities that encourage people of all ages to make connections between the arts and sustainability. In 2024, creative reuse provided creative reuse activities for more than 4,000 participants at 100 events and workshops.
$108,125 spent$18,639 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $397,173.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $128k to $198k (+55%).
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: 2021 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $13k → $43k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE’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
PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 37% · 2021 66% · 2022 34% · 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
75% of PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
59% of PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $144k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k 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 CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE
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
71% 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 PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE: 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 CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE?
- PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,543 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($130,913). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $350,543 in grants to PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $130,913 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR CREATIVE REUSE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 13 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