Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE
PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Pittsburgh Life Sciences Alliance does
Mission
Pittsburgh Life Sciences Alliance (plsa) is dedicated to making greater pittsburgh a global life sciences leader and economic engine at the intersection of the region's unique clinical, research, manufacturing, and technology strengths.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Advance: provide a vision and goals for the greater pittsburgh life sciences ecosystem and help to create a regional strategy for achieving them.
$297,859 spent31% of program spendingCommunicate: raise awareness of the greater pittsburgh region's strengths and assets in the life sciences.
$166,248 spent17% of program spendingConvene: host events to connect industry, academia, and the ecosystem players to reduce silos, increase industry engagement and create economic opportunities.
$449,701 spent47% of program spendingWorkforce: providing a central view of regional life sciences workforce needs, training providers and gaps between them that need to be addressed.
$49,399 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $963,207.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $349k to $1.9M (+441%).
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.
99% of PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 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
Megan Shaw
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE’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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE.
“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
100% of PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE
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
84% 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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE: 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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE?
- PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,000 in grants to PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE?
- UPMC GROUP 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 LIFE SCIENCES ALLIANCE 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 2024–2025), 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