Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1236 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,739,037 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($64,953,000). 755 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6B
- Funders on record
- 1,236
- Grants received
- $796M
- Net assets
- $7.8B
What University of Pittsburgh does
Mission
The University of Pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. For more than two centuries, the University of Pittsburgh has served the needs of its home region, the commonwealth of pennsylvania, and the nation as a leader in education, a pioneer in research and a partner in community service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research - includes expenditures for activities specifically organized to produce research outcomes whether commissioned by an external agency or budgeted by a unit.
$1,047,235,365 spentof which $167,123,546 as grants$1,254,421,522 earned by the program33% of program spendingInstruction - includes expenditures for activities of the institution's instruction programs.
$1,071,376,632 spentof which $304,714,407 as grants$1,042,773,656 earned by the program34% of program spendingAcademic support - includes expenditures in support of the university's primary missions - instruction, research, and public service.
$401,332,476 spent$130,394,392 earned by the program13% of program spendingExpenses grants revenuestudent services $275,124,894 auxiliary enterprises $180,174,929 $175,845,546libraries $65,046,193 public service $136,140,464 $1,411,540
$656,486,480 spentof which $1,411,540 as grants$175,845,546 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,176,430,953.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $8.0B to $9.7B (+20%).
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 7% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 7% · 2021 7% · 2022 7% · 2023 7% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
John J Verbanac
Chairman of the bot
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 292 funders to 470 funders, grant income rose $43M → $121M.
67 of 1236 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $1.6B from 87 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Upmc Group); $17M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Bradford Educational Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1236 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 18 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 18 funders to its left
63% 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 7% · 2018 6% · 2019 14% · 2020 6% · 2021 11% · 2022 13% · 2023 15% — 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
37% of UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 45 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 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.
Against its field
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH's funding base is broadening — from 292 funders to 470 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record — $471k federal, $2.7M state.
- Department of Defense$471k
- VT$2.5M
- NJ$126k
- OK$59k
- DE$24k
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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 24 related entities
- 3441 F Street LLC · disregarded
- Lifex Global LLC · disregarded
- Lifex Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Stone Mansion LLC · disregarded
- Lifex Ventures LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: 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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH?
- UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1236 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,739,037 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($64,953,000). 755 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH have?
- IRS filings report 1236 organizations giving $795,739,037 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 755 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH?
- RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $64,953,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 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 1236 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