California · Nonprofit
THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS
THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,473,203 to it, the largest being THE OJC FUND ($579,703). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trustshared funders
- The Linaburg Foundationportfolio match
- Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Charportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $188k → $112k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS’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
THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 72% — 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
0% of THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $680k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 392 organizations that share them.
- Otzar Hachesed Foundation Trustshared fundersNY · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- The Linaburg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Morris Charles M Tr Ua-Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James and Marilyn a Gilmore Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan & Barbara Ackerman Fdn-Custportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving & Aaronel Deroy Gruber Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Mack Lewis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Florence Lamme Feicht Boyer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charity Randall Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Benter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Schoonmaker J & L for Swkly Val Hospportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS?
- THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,473,203 to it, the largest being THE OJC FUND ($579,703). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,473,203 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS?
- THE OJC FUND is the largest funder on record, with $579,703 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH INSTITUTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 9funders 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