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PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE

PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$6.5M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$34M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science does

Mission

Mortuary school

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The school offers an educational program that will provide the required knowledge and skills that are essential in meeting the student's needs for licensure and a successful funeral service practice. The school also encourages cooperation with all individuals and groups concerned with the advancement of the standards of education for funeral service, research in the mortuary arts and sciences and continued study of the psychological and sociological aspects of funeral home service in meeting the needs of the people. This school is one of the only mortuary educational institutions in pennsylvania. The school has approximately 300 full time and part time students.

    $6,507,661 earned by the program
  2. N/a

  3. N/a

  4. The school offers an educational program that will provide the required knowledge and skills that are essential in meeting the student's needs for licensure and a successful funeral service practice. The school also encourages cooperation with all individuals and groups concerned with the advancement of the standards of education for funeral service, research in the mortuary arts and sciences and continued study of the psychollogical and sociological aspects of funeral service in meeting the needs of the people. This school is one of the only mortuary educational institutions in pennsylvania. The school has approximately 300 full time and part time students.

    $2,172,501 spent
    100% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,172,501.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 111 ($3.6M) Expenses 107 ($2.3M) Net assets 113 ($14M)2019 Revenue 121 ($3.9M) Expenses 109 ($2.3M) Net assets 125 ($15M)2020 Revenue 107 ($3.5M) Expenses 109 ($2.3M) Net assets 138 ($17M)2021 Revenue 168 ($5.4M) Expenses 103 ($2.2M) Net assets 177 ($22M)2022 Revenue 174 ($5.6M) Expenses 106 ($2.3M) Net assets 180 ($22M)2023 Revenue 135 ($4.4M) Expenses 121 ($2.6M) Net assets 211 ($26M)2024 Revenue 168 ($5.4M) Expenses 140 ($3.0M) Net assets 246 ($30M)2025 Revenue 202 ($6.5M) Expenses 152 ($3.3M) Net assets 276 ($34M)
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Revenue (202)Expenses (152)Net assets (276)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $18M to $22M (+27%).

$13M
$14M
$16M
$18M
$22M
$23M
$26M
$31M
$35M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
$1.3M
’18
$1.6M
’19
$1.1M
’20
$3.2M
’21
$3.4M
’22
$1.8M
’23
$2.4M
’24
$3.3M
’25
8.9
months of
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

James O Pinkerton

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed777669988
Joined·+0+2+0+0+3+0+1+0
No longer listed·02100020
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
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'24*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE’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 INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96% 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 INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

96% of PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin50% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $845k on record.

Federal$845k
grants $845kcontracts $0
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21
Top agencies
  • Department of Education$845k

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 INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

67% of spending goes to programs.

Program 67%Management 33%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
78%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE?
PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,000 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,000 in grants to PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE.
Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE 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 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