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PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,430 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($340,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $389k
- Net assets
- $238k
What Pittsburgh Chapter of the German American Chamber of Commerce does
Mission
The mission is to provide business and educational opportunities for its members. Membership provides direct access to the services and other benefits offered by the organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The internship program provides both american and german youth the opportunity to assist the organization in event support. Communications, marketing, and translation work.
The dual apprenticeship program is an innovative and industry-led approach to education. Apprenticeships provide practice, theory, and work in an internationally competitive workforce. Companies get a tailored training program, employee loyalty, and access to a high quality candidate pool. The programs are designed for companies to have a workforce tailored to their needs. The apprentices get hands-on experience while also learning theory.
Delegation services are offered and organized by the organization. These services include organizing business meetings, company visits, presentation events, business conferences, and networking events, as well as travel and logistics arrangements.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $119k to $314k (+163%).
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: 2018 17% · 2019 30% · 2020 56% · 2021 53% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Paul Overby
Chairman of
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $50k → $15k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $93k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pittsburgh Chapter German American Chamber of Commerce Ny Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE raised.
From the IRS filings of PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE’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 CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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
100% of PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'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
PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 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 CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $389,430 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($340,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $389,430 in grants to PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH CHAPTER OF THE GERMAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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 2018–2024), 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