Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,560,130 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($3,515,214). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership does
Mission
To advance initiatives that foster economic vitality and improve downtown life - for a moment or for a lifetime.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic development and programming - in 2025, the district development team remained focused on attracting investment in new business development, with a particular emphasis on growing the retail base through its retail development programs: downtown rent abatement and project pop-up. The state of downtown series was relaunched featuring four quarterly webinars focused on the real estate market and economic growth. The team led the market square modernization project and collaborated with local business to prepare for expanded outdoor dining. Public realm projects, including pedestrian lighting on coffey way and sidewalk repairs, enhanced streetscapes. The events team generated excitement and energy throughout downtown by hosting more than 350 events in 2025. Events like picklesburgh, light up night, new winter programming through the thaw, and packed watch parties on 6th street helped drive year-round engagement. Signature series like farmer's market and peoples gas holiday market were relocated due to market square construction creating opportunities for new experiences and expanded activation throughout downtown. The placemaking grant program also served as a vital tool for…
$14,110,337 spent$3,004,545 earned by the program75% of program spendingOperations - the pdp is committed to its core work ensuring downtown is maintained through consistent, visible services. An expanded partnership with renewal, inc increased the clean teams impact by supporting power washing, alleyway cleaning and planter maintenance. The outreach team operated the community connection shuttle, transporting members of the unhoused community to warm, overnight shelters during colder month. The golden triangle ambassadors infused downtown with positive energy through greetings, photo assists, and directions. The pdp engaged over 250 volunteers through cleanup initiatives like redd up week and partnered with the immaculate collection a coordinated volunteer clean-up effort ahead of the 2026 nfl draft.
$4,453,323 spent$3,517,875 earned by the program24% of program spendingTransportation - whether arriving by car, bus, bike or on foot transportation remains a critical issue for those who work, live, and visit here. As the region's transit hub, downtown's evolution will impact how people get around the county. In 2025, the pdp oversaw the installation of a new world-class pedestrian wayfinding system - the culmination of years of stakeholder collaboration between the city, state, and local entities. The pdp also coordinated with pittsburgh regional transit and other partners to facilitate around major service changes, including the university line project and bus line redesign plan.
$265,445 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,829,105.
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 2024 to 2025, from $10M to $16M (+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: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Jeremy Waldrup
President & CEO
Board chair
Shannon Baker
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $65k → $1.4M.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $344k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Upmc Group). These are real filings, and they are not money PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP raised.
From the IRS filings of PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP’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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 54% · 2018 67% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 85% · 2022 60% · 2023 37% — 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
50% of PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
Against its field
PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP?
- PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,560,130 to it, the largest being MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA ($3,515,214). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $11,560,130 in grants to PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP?
- MCCUNE FOUNDATION PNC BANK NA is the largest funder on record, with $3,515,214 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP 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 18 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