Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,928,601 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($1,560,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $131M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $5.9M
- Net assets
- $142M
What Point Park University does
Mission
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. Dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed citizens and successful professionals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Instruction- includes 6 academic schools; school of arts & sciences, rowland school of business, school of communication, school of dance, school of theatre, film & animation, and school of education, serving 2,337 undergraduate and 1,111 graduate students (fall 2024 census), as well as the pittsburgh playhouse which provides applied training for students. Popular areas of study are cinema arts, dance, theatre, criminal justice & national security, social sciences, engineering technology, psychology, accounting, economics, finance, applied computer science, business management, sports, arts, & entertainment management, communications, community engagement, & education. In addition to numerous undergraduate degrees, the school offers 23 master's degrees and 3 doctoral degrees.
$85,581,555 spentof which $45,928,350 as grants$109,807,750 earned by the program68% of program spendingAcademic support & student services- academic support provides support for the school's primary academic mission. Includes library services, university advising center, information & media centers, provost office & teaching & learning lab. Student services includes admissions, career development, financial aid administration, registrar, student activities, student affairs office, as well as 18 men's and women's intercollegiate athletic teams.
$29,751,531 spentof which $59,216 as grants$678,477 earned by the program24% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises- support of dormitories, dining hall, cafe, bookstore and recreation center for students, faculty and staff of the university.
$9,762,430 spentof which $432,805 as grants$11,419,352 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $125,095,516.
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 2022 to 2023, from $203M to $191M (−6%).
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 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 6% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Lisa M Cibik Md
Board member & chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $92k → $527k.
13 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.4M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Upmc Group). These are real filings, and they are not money POINT PARK UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of POINT PARK UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 24% · 2019 19% · 2020 46% · 2021 72% · 2022 57% · 2023 28% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of POINT PARK UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
92% of POINT PARK UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $458k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Government funding POINT PARK UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.2M on record.
- Department of Education$18.6M
- Department of Justice$300k
- National Science Foundation$282k
- National Endowment for the Arts$55k
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 POINT PARK UNIVERSITY
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pioneer Records LLC · disregarded
- Point Park University Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for POINT PARK UNIVERSITY: 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 POINT PARK UNIVERSITY?
- POINT PARK UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,928,601 to it, the largest being ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION ($1,560,000). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POINT PARK UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $5,928,601 in grants to POINT PARK UNIVERSITY, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POINT PARK UNIVERSITY?
- ALLEGHENY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,560,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POINT PARK UNIVERSITY 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 102 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