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UNION PROJECT

UNION PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,607 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($554,962). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$667k
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$1.9M
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
13/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%

Against its field

UNION PROJECT's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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 ($635k) Expenses 100 ($519k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 125 ($793k) Expenses 114 ($593k) Net assets 118 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 120 ($765k) Expenses 149 ($774k) Net assets 117 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 157 ($997k) Expenses 109 ($564k) Net assets 157 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 146 ($925k) Expenses 87 ($453k) Net assets 200 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 71 ($452k) Expenses 111 ($574k) Net assets 188 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 110 ($695k) Expenses 135 ($702k) Net assets 188 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 164 ($1.0M) Expenses 139 ($720k) Net assets 217 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 105 ($667k) Expenses 163 ($848k) Net assets 201 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (163)Net assets (201)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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 20% · 2021 28% · 2022 20% · 2023 19% · 2024 21% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of UNION PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$116k
’17
$201k
’18
−$9k
’19
$433k
’20
$472k
’21
−$123k
’22
−$6k
’23
$322k
’24
−$180k
’25
6.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $66k → $373k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
4
2
3
10
9
6
12
13
4

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 UNION PROJECT’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

UNION PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

30%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 91% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 62% · 2022 53% · 2023 27% — 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

73% of UNION PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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

100% of UNION PROJECT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
NC

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. $201k 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.

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 21 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 UNION PROJECT

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

Pittsburgh Entertainment Project83%Association for Public Art83%Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council83%Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project82%Associated Artists of Pittsburgh81%Pittsburgh Cultural Trust81%State Theatre Inc81%Pittsburgh Filmmakers Inc81%

Nationally

Pittsburgh Entertainment Project83%Association for Public Art83%Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council83%Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project82%Washington Project for the Arts Inc82%United Palace of Cultural Arts Inc82%The Ocean Community United Theatre Inc82%United Planning Organization81%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 23%Fundraising 5%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNION PROJECT: 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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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 UNION PROJECT?
UNION PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,874,607 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($554,962). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNION PROJECT have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,874,607 in grants to UNION PROJECT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNION PROJECT?
THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $554,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNION PROJECT 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 21funders 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