New Sun Rising
Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 20-3496988. Reported 38 grants totalling $2,419,282 to 37 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. For New Sun Rising, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $67,500. Half of what it reported fell between $12,500 and $100,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $231,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program to Aid Citizens Enterprise Pace | Pittsburgh, PA | $231,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Theater Project Corporation | Pittsburgh, PA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Assemble Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Beaver County Regional Council of Governments | New Brighton, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bloomfield-Garfield Corp | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA San Jose | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Empowerment Ass PTA | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hill Dance Academy Theatre-Hdat | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shana Simmons Dance | Wilkinsburg, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Silver Eye Center for Photography | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Legacy Arts Project Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Mattress Factory | Pittsburgh, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Touchstone Center for Crafts | Farmington, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Village Theater Company | Sewickley, PA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras | Pittsburgh, PA | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Farm to Table Buy Local | Pittsburgh, PA | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pittsburgh School for the Choral Arts | Pittsburgh, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neighborhood North Museum of Play | Beaver Falls, PA | $74,325 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sharpsburg Neighborhood Organization | Pittsburgh, PA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council | Pittsburgh, PA | $67,747 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Westmoreland Museum of Art | Greensburg, PA | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Balafon West African Dance Ensemble Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $61,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A S Vision | Munhall, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Awaken Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pa | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pittsburgh National Youth Boxing | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trade Institute of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Helping Ourselves Produce Excellence for Tomorrow Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ozanam Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation of Hope Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $11,710 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 1HOOD Media Academy | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Imagine Further Collective Inc | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Way Christian Community | Wexford, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Center That C a R E S Children Adult Recreational and | Pittsburgh, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Genesis Collective Inc | Aliquippa, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northside Youth Athletic Association | Pittsburgh, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
1 of 37 (3%) 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.
- Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise Inc
TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR CAPACITY BUILDING GRANTS - Community Theater Project Corporation Kelly Strayhorn Theater
TO INCREASE CAPACITIES THROUGH A MUTUAL-AID RESIDENCY BASED ON SHARED OPERATIONS, RESOURCES, STAFF, AND SPACE TO CREATE HOLISTIC SUPPORT FOR THE GENERATION OF DANCE AND IDEAS, - Assemble Inc
THE RAMP UP FELLOWSHIP AIMS TO PROVIDE EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE EMPLOYMENT WITH LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG BIPOC AND LGBTQIA CREATIVES LOOKING TO BECOME ARTS EDUCATORS - Beaver County Regional Council of Governments
TO CONNECT REGIONAL ARTISTS TO ONE ANOTHER, TO THE COMMUNITY, AND TO THOSE RESOURCES REQUIRED FOR MAKING ART AN INDISPENSABLE FEATURE OF BEAVER COUNTY'S IDENTITY. - Bloomfield-Garfield Corp
TO UPLIFT, OVERLAP, AND ASSIMILATE BEST PRACTICE OF BOTH ENTITIES IN EFFORTS TO PRESENT A STRONGER UNIFIED PROGRAM AND PRODUCTION PORTFOLIO. - CASA San Jose
TO DEVELOP THE PGH LATINX ARTIST RESIDENCY(P-LAR), A 10-MONTH OPPORTUNITY FOR EMERGING LATINX ARTISTS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY, WHO WILL RECEIVE SUPPORT IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 37 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 | 21 | $2,149,072 | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 1 | $11,710 | $11,710 |
| 2023 | 15 | $188,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 1 | $70,000 | $70,000 |
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
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $67,500 -- 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 New Sun Rising'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 112 Sherman Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15209.
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