Highmark Health Group
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 82-1406555. Reported 64 grants totalling $931,050 to 38 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 38 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,250. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $62,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $130,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | El Segundo, CA | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Institute | Pittsburgh, PA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $50,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Pittsburgh - Office of Special Events | Pittsburgh, PA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $42,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $37,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cultural Arts Festivals and Events of Erie | Erie, PA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Erie Regional Chamber and Growth Partnership | Erie, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monroeville Foundation Inc | Monroeville, PA | $25,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Diabetes Association Inc | Arlington, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Breakthrough T1D | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce | Grove City, PA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | New York, NY | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asbury Woods Partnership | Erie, PA | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humane Animal Rescue | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | Pittsburgh, PA | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dr Gertrude a Barber Foundation Inc | Erie, PA | $15,800 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| A Glimmer of Hope Inc | Wexford, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County | Sharon, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Epilepsy Association of Western and Central Pa | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crohns & Colitis Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| March of Dimes Inc | Arlington, VA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Inc | Dallas, TX | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Side Chamber of Commerce | Pittsburgh, PA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Villa Maria Catherdral Preparatory Catholic School System | Erie, PA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Grove City College | Grove City, PA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bemus Bay Pops Inc | Bemus Point, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Liver Alliance | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Flagship Niagara League | Erie, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Wmpm LLC Dba Pittsburgh Magazine | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lending Hearts | Pittsburgh, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mercyhurst University | Erie, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercy Center for Women Inc | Erie, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Lung Association | Chicago, IL | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Kidney Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
17 of 38 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- City of Pittsburgh - Office of Special Events
Support of Richard S. Caliguiri City of Pittsburgh Great Race on September 26, 2021 - American Heart Association
Support of the American Heart Association event "Live Fierce. Stand for All". - Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania Inc
To support 2023 Stand Down Pittsburgh - Pancreatic Cancer Action Network
To support PurpleStride Pittsburgh 2022 - American Diabetes Association
Support of 2021 Pittsburgh Virtual Step Out events of the American Diabetes Association. - Carnegie Institute
To support Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh Sponsorship Package and BodyStage
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 of 38 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $331,250 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $242,300 | $11,750 |
| 2023 | 10 | $124,250 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 12 | $233,250 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
52% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,250 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Highmark Health Group's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 120 Fifth Avenue Tax, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222.
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