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Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,195,352 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($3,957,820). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5M
Revenue FY2024
34
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
18/34 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

Pittsburgh United runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve21.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)44% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($264k) Expenses 100 ($708k) Net assets 100 ($354k)2018 Revenue 394 ($1.0M) Expenses 154 ($1.1M) Net assets 87 ($308k)2019 Revenue 446 ($1.2M) Expenses 173 ($1.2M) Net assets 189 ($671k)2020 Revenue 687 ($1.8M) Expenses 215 ($1.5M) Net assets 273 ($967k)2021 Revenue 889 ($2.4M) Expenses 235 ($1.7M) Net assets 468 ($1.7M)2022 Revenue 1264 ($3.3M) Expenses 306 ($2.2M) Net assets 799 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 1236 ($3.3M) Expenses 395 ($2.8M) Net assets 932 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 1308 ($3.5M) Expenses 312 ($2.2M) Net assets 1284 ($4.6M)
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Revenue (1308)Expenses (312)Net assets (1284)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Pittsburgh United’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$443k
17
$46k
18
$43k
19
$297k
20
$690k
21
$1.2M
22
$472k
23
$1.2M
24
22
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $412k → $1.8M.

14 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% 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 United’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 funders by total. 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 United has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

62% 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 United.

32%
largest funder
50%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 86% · 2019 28% · 2020 54% · 2021 45% · 2022 43% · 2023 26%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

85% of Pittsburgh United's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

58% of Pittsburgh United's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WA
IL
NY
PA
CA
DE
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 34 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Pittsburgh United

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

54%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pittsburgh United: 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 United?
Pittsburgh United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,195,352 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($3,957,820). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pittsburgh United have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $12,195,352 in grants to Pittsburgh United, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pittsburgh United?
THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $3,957,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pittsburgh United 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 34funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing