Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT
PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,631 to it, the largest being PEALE FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $366k
- Net assets
- $123k
What Pittsburgh Experiment does
Mission
The Pittsburgh Experiment encourages men and women in the workplace to seek and share jesus christ in every aspect of life. As a para-church marketplace ministry, the Pittsburgh Experiment offers: small groups, employment assistance, counseling, spiritual direction, conferences, retreats and special events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Small groups - foundation of the Pittsburgh Experiment - the Pittsburgh Experiment groups are open to everyone. Anyone is welcome to attend. There are men, women and mixed groups. There is no set number of people per group. Anywhere from 2 to 12 people can have a meaningful session. The groups usually meet for an hour a week before or during lunch or in the evening. Some groups meet in an office conference room with brown bag lunches, others in restaurants. They begin on time and end when promised.
$140,541 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,541.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $45k to $111k (+144%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $41k → $39k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 EXPERIMENT’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 EXPERIMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 86% · 2018 63% · 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 90% · 2022 80% · 2023 91% — 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
57% of PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT
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.
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT: 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 EXPERIMENT?
- PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $365,631 to it, the largest being PEALE FOUNDATION INC ($312,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $365,631 in grants to PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT?
- PEALE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $312,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH EXPERIMENT 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 9 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