Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST
PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 144 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,894,984 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($19,945,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocal
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio match
- The Ellen and Jack Kessler Family Foundation C/O Jj Kesslerportfolio 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 4% · 2018 6% · 2019 3% · 2020 0% · 2021 21% · 2022 5% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
24% of PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 82 funders, grant income rose $738k → $7.1M.
17 of 144 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5.1M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dietrich Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 144 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 CULTURAL TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 19% · 2020 39% · 2021 40% · 2022 28% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
64% of PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
99% of PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 144 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- McAuley Ministriesshared funderslocalPA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 119 organizations near you
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ellen and Jack Kessler Family Foundation C/O Jj Kesslerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Equity & Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Howard & Nell E Miller Foundatshared funderslocalPA · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 85 organizations near you
- Pitcairn-Crabbe Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 82 organizations near you
- Posner Foundation of Pittsburghshared fundersPA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Jefferson Regional Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders · funds 144 organizations near you
- Robert & Mary Weisbrod Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- McElhattan Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Opportunity Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 215 organizations near you
- Pittsburgh Penguins Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 124 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 PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$62k
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
- Department of State$3k
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 CULTURAL TRUST
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Theater Square LLC · disregarded
- 604 Wood Street Acquistion LLC · disregarded
- Granite Building Acquisition LLC · disregarded
- 2022 Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- The Dietrich Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST: 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 PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST?
- PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 144 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,894,984 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($19,945,000). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 144 organizations giving $56,894,984 in grants to PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $19,945,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 144funders 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