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Pittsburgh United

Pittsburgh United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,033,852 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($3,957,820). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.3M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$13M
Net assets
$6.4M
18/38 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Pittsburgh United does

Mission

Pittsburgh United, Inc. strives to advance social & economic justice in the

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Pittsburgh Uniteds coalition work & progressive issue campaigns have built stronger communities & more power for working class people in Pittsburgh & throughout Western Pennsylvania. Together, we fought water privatization, worked to preserve & expand affordable housing options in our communities, pushed corporations to take the high road and create good jobs & honor their workers rights to organize & we struggled with developers to invest in the things our community needs most. Despite the challenges of COVID-19, we have devoted our work to creating a sustainable movement of poor & working class people and partner organizations by working together to address the most pressing issues facing our community & lifting up & valuing people over profit.

    $3,416,387 spentof which $830,518 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,416,387.

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 ($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)2025 Revenue 2020 ($5.3M) Expenses 541 ($3.8M) Net assets 1800 ($6.4M)
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Revenue (2020)Expenses (541)Net assets (1800)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 2024 to 2025, from $4.9M to $7.0M (+44%).

$362k
$318k
$870k
$1.3M
$1.7M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$4.9M
$7.0M
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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

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

99% of Pittsburgh United’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,444 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$443k
’17
−$46k
’18
−$43k
’19
$297k
’20
$690k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$472k
’23
$1.2M
’24
$1.5M
’25
19
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.

Chief executive

Alex Wallach Hanson

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed121212121412121210
Joined·+3+2+2+4+0+0+1+1
No longer listed·32222013
03Who 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.

15 of 38 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 United’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 30% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

65% 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.

30%
largest funder
48%
top three
~8
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; 47% 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

53% of Pittsburgh United's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

WA
IL
NY
PA
CA
AZ
DC

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

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Pittsburgh United runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)46% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Pittsburgh United

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

71%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Pennsylvania United · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pittsburgh United?
Pittsburgh United (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,033,852 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 38 organizations giving $13,033,852 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.

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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 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing