GrantmakersPennsylvania

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 25-6058560. Reported 46 grants totalling $448,421 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

41organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$448,421granted, 2021-2024
0%of grantees funded again the next year
6%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Pittsburgh History & Landmarks, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A800) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,190 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,234 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Neville House Associates IncBridgeville, PA$27,000222022
Third Presbyterian ChurchPittsburgh, PA$26,061222022
Church of the AscensionPittsburgh, PA$20,000222022
Rosedale Block Cluster IncPittsburgh, PA$20,000112021
First Baptist ChurchPittsburgh, PA$18,190222024
Union ProjectPittsburgh, PA$17,500222024
African American Chamber of Commerce of Western PennsylvaniaPittsburgh, PA$12,000112024
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens IncPittsburgh, PA$10,600112024
Christ Temple ChurchPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Congregation Beth ShalomPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
Fcp Services IncorporatedTarentum, PA$10,000112024
First Presbyterian Church of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
Good Samaritan Baptist ChurchPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Homestead United Presbyterian ChurchHomestead, PA$10,000112022
Manchester-Bidwell CorporationPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Presbyterian Church USAPittsburgh, PA$10,000112024
Riverview United Presbyterian ChurchPittsburgh, PA$10,000112021
Rodef Shalom CongregationPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
Shepherds Heart Fellowship & MinistriesPittsburgh, PA$10,000112024
Shiloh Community Missionary Baptist ChurchPittsburgh, PA$10,000112021
St Andrews Lutheran ChurchPittsburgh, PA$10,000112022
Temple Baptist Church of Mt Oliver BoroughPittsburgh, PA$10,000112024
The Baptist Temple Church of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$10,000112023
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran ChurchWexford, PA$10,000112022
Waverly Presbyterian ChurchPittsburgh, PA$9,725112021
St Philip ChurchPittsburgh, PA$9,721112023
Pittsburgh Northside Church of GodPittsburgh, PA$9,690112024
Valley View Presbyterian ChurchPittsburgh, PA$9,279112022
Sewickley Methodist ChurchSewickley, PA$9,075112023
Restoration Community ChurchSwissvale, PA$8,325112024
Calvary United Methodist ChurchPittsburgh, PA$8,300112023
Calvary Episcopal ChurchPittsburgh, PA$8,190112023
Holy Faith TabernaclePittsburgh, PA$8,190112023
King of Kings Baptist Ministries of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania IncPittsburgh, PA$8,190112024
Mary L Jackson Tr Fbo St Andrews Episcopal ChurchPittsburgh, PA$8,190112024
Mckeesport Area Shared Ministry United Methodist ChurchMckeesport, PA$8,190112023
Pittsburgh New ChurchPittsburgh, PA$8,190112023
Spencer United Methodist ChurchPittsburgh, PA$7,211112024
Saint Michael the Archangel Orthodox ChurchBraddock, PA$5,880112021
Praise Temple Deliverance ChurchPittsburgh, PA$5,490112023
Open Bible Standard Churches IncPittsburgh, PA$5,234112021

5 of 41 (12%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 41 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.

Religion
6 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org
Environment
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Public & Societal Benefit
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202111$124,900$10,000
202210$98,279$10,000
202312$105,346$8,687
202413$119,896$9,690

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

Pittsburgh, PA
$360K
Bridgeville, PA
$27K
Tarentum, PA
$10K
Homestead, PA
$10K
Wexford, PA
$10K
Sewickley, PA
$9K
Swissvale, PA
$8K
Mckeesport, PA
$8K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc11 shared recipientsThe Pittsburgh Foundation9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsThe Heinz Endowments4 shared recipientsHillman Family Foundations4 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. 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 Pittsburgh History & Landmarks'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 13 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: 100 W Station Square Drive 450, Pittsburgh, PA, 15219.

EIN 25-6058560 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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