Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC
PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,350 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($207,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $531k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Pittsburgh Filmmakers Inc does
Mission
The corporation advances excellence in the arts, including studio, media, and creative writing. To achieve its mission, the corporation provides equipment and facilities for individual artists, conducts educational programs, and stimulates public awareness and understanding through classes, camps, workshops, artist residencies, exhibitions and events to cultivate a thriving arts community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Arts education programming:pca&m provides equipment and facilities for adults and youth of all skill levels, conducts educational programs, and stimulates public awareness and understanding through classes, camps, workshops and artist residencies to cultivate a thriving arts community. Tuition assistance is available for any qualifying individual. Pca&m serves approximately 2,900 adults and youths annually from our main campus.
$471,137 spent$689,501 earned by the program49% of program spendingArtists in schools and communities:through its partnership with the pennsylvania council on the arts, artists in schools & communities at pca&m offers artist residency projects and other vital arts programming to schools, community organizations, and nonprofit service agencies working with both children and adults in allegheny, beaver, greene, and washington counties. Serving roughly 10,000-12,000 people annually in all four counties
$303,905 spent$102,478 earned by the program31% of program spendingArtist services:pca&m offers a variety of opportunities for local artists, members, and other interested parties within the general community. Currently the organization hosts 4 exhibitions per year and holds 3 artists markets. Pca&m also provides access to studio facilities and equipment through a membership-based program in three separate mediums, ceramics, photography/media and printmaking. The organization also has a fiscal sponsorship program for artists that are receiving grants. The new pca&m retail consignment shop opened in december of 2022. The shop represents approximately 62 local artist and members, carrying a curated/juried selection of locally made artworks available for purchase to the general public. Pca&m serves roughly 1,500-2,000 through artists services.
$195,198 spent$127,734 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $970,240.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.8M to $1.6M (−43%).
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 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 11% · 2020 47% · 2021 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Kyle Houser
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $143k → $45k.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 FILMMAKERS INC’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 FILMMAKERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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
52% 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 FILMMAKERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 50% · 2019 90% · 2020 71% · 2021 83% · 2022 81% · 2023 56% — 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
0% of PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
98% of PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $208k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC: 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 FILMMAKERS INC?
- PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,350 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($207,800). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $531,350 in grants to PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC?
- THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $207,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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