Foundation-Directed Grants
Use the drop-down boxes below to search the listing of discretionary grants awarded through our application process. The Foundation awards grants in these strategic focus areas: Self-Sufficient Individuals and Families, Healthy Communities, Vibrant Democracy and Community Projects.
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| Grantee | Purpose | Year Sort ascending | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy Innovation Center Institute, Inc. | to connect unemployed and underemployed individuals residing in underserved neighborhoods to jobs with a sustainable wage and viable career ladder. | 2018 | $110,000 |
| Familylinks | to support the Caregivers First Initiative. | 2018 | $75,000 |
| Film Pittsburgh | for FY 2019 operating support. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| Focus on Renewal F.O.R. Sto-Rox Neighborhood Corp. | to develop a community-focused three-year strategic plan. | 2018 | $25,000 |
| Gettysburg College | to support the scientific research project: What Genetic and Ecology Factors Determine the Evolutionary Path of Viral Pathogens as They Adapt to their Bacterial Hosts? by Dr. Véronique A. Delesalle. | 2018 | $99,955 |
| Global Solutions Pittsburgh dba The Global Switchboard | to support implementation of a community-designed plan to increase immigrant inclusion across the Pittsburgh region. | 2018 | $75,000 |
| Holy Family Institute | to provide financial assistance for ninth grade students attending Nazareth College and Career Prep High School. | 2018 | $100,000 |
| Hopebound Ministries, Inc. | for Mooncrest Neighborhood Programs to support basic needs outreach programs and services for the residents of Mooncrest and surrounding communities. | 2018 | $15,675 |
| Jazz Workshop, Inc. | to support the “Family Night Series” and "Jazz Jam and Poetry Series." | 2018 | $7,500 |
| Jewish Healthcare Foundation of Pittsburgh | to support the Community Health Worker Apprenticeship program. | 2018 | $100,000 |
| Kane Area Community Center | to support the youth out-of-school programs. | 2018 | $12,000 |
| New Sun Rising | to support a residency with Ashley Cecil in collaboration with Tree Pittsburgh. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| Open Hand Ministries | for the expansion of its work of assisting low - to moderate-income families become homeowners in the opportunity rich neighborhoods of East Liberty and Garfield. | 2018 | $70,000 |
| Partnership for Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention | to support programming at Sembène: The Film and Arts Festival. | 2018 | $10,000 |
| Pittsburgh Classical Guitar Society, Inc. | to raise the community’s awareness of the organization and its mission by sponsoring a concert series of nationally known classical guitarists. | 2018 | $7,500 |
| Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts | for a documentary film on Dr. Jim Withers by Jeff Sewald. | 2018 | $50,000 |
| Pittsburgh Glass Center, Inc. | to support artist residency and exhibition with glass artist Jaime Guerrero. | 2018 | $40,000 |
| Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company | to support the inaugural production of "Savior Samuel" by Mark Clayton Southers in Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company's 15th Anniversary Season. | 2018 | $50,000 |
| POISE Foundation | to launch the Pittsburgh Tenants’ Union of residents of subsidized housing. | 2018 | $35,000 |
| PolicyLink | to support implementation of the Pittsburgh All-In Cities Initiative. | 2018 | $125,000 |
| Primary Care Health Services, Inc. | for Wake Up the Vote, an initiative of the Wilkinsburg Family Support Center Parent Council to increase voter turnout in Wilkinsburg in fall 2018. | 2018 | $25,270 |
| Recovery United Pittsburgh | to underwrite the monthly program fee for 22 adults in recovery support housing and hire two peer specialists. | 2018 | $60,000 |
| Salvation Army | to deliver multimodal treatment approaches and case management for adult males in treatment for opioid addiction at the Harbor Light Center. | 2018 | $45,000 |
| Silver Eye Center for Photography | to support the publication of 250 copies of the fine art book about Alisha Wormsley’s project, “The People Are the Light.” | 2018 | $10,000 |
| Small Seeds Development, Inc | to support the Mother to Son Program. | 2018 | $50,000 |
| The Jewish Chronicle | to support the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle’s re-launched website and print editions. | 2018 | $18,000 |
| The Neighborhood Academy | to support costs associated with preparing to hire a Dean of Faculty in the 2020-2021 school year. | 2018 | $76,000 |
| Trade Institute of Pittsburgh | for a bridge grant to support general operations. | 2018 | $150,000 |
| Ujamaa Collective | to develop and implement a youth-led project to document experiences of pushout among black girls in Allegheny County. | 2018 | $44,000 |
| University of Pittsburgh | for the Graduate School of Public Health to support the creation of a Pittsburgh Regional Forum on the Opioid Epidemic. | 2018 | $80,800 |
| University of Pittsburgh | to support a Blue-Ribbon Commission to study Pennsylvania’s election cybersecurity by the Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. | 2018 | $100,000 |
| University of the Sciences in Philadelphia | to support a scientific research project, Elucidating phagocytic glial responses to protein aggregation in neurons with Dr. Margaret Pearce (PI). | 2018 | $100,000 |
| Watson Institute | to support the expansion of its training and consulting services to school districts impacted by high rates of poverty. | 2018 | $100,000 |
| Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf | to support the expansion of the Children's Center at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, providing early education programs to deaf and hard of hearing children, birth to seven years of age. | 2018 | $300,000 |
| When She Thrives | to support the expansion of Scenes from a Single Mom Book Project. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| Youth Opportunities Development | to support program costs associated with serving 28 boys in grades 3-8 for the 2018-2019 school year. | 2018 | $45,000 |
| Corningworks | for FY2019 operating support. | 2018 | $10,000 |
| Belle Voci | to support a collaborative performance: "All You Need is Love: The 55th Anniversary of the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show." | 2018 | $9,000 |
| Bunker Projects | to support career development opportunities for Pittsburgh artists, arts professionals, documentarians, and writers through the launch of a new publication-making initiative. | 2018 | $7,500 |
| Crossing Limits, Inc. | to support the development of “Hello Neighbor,” a civic engagement initiative. | 2018 | $2,000 |
| New Sun Rising | to support Maree ReMalia’s development and premiere of the evening-length contemporary dance performance, A Letter Compiled From All Letters. | 2018 | $10,500 |
| New Sun Rising | to support the creation of slowdanger’s new group work titled, ‘empathy machine.’ | 2018 | $7,500 |
| Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh | to support a partnership between the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh and Ebenezer Baptist Church to present Let My People Go and ancillary programming in February 2019. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| The Brew House Association, Inc. | to support emerging curators and local artists through an exhibition showcase and professional development experiences. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| Off the Wall Productions | to support Hiawatha Project’s ‘My Traveling Song,’ an interactive, original play and experience between child and caregiver. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| Pittsburgh Youth Chorus | to support two seasonal concerts. | 2018 | $15,000 |
| The Pittsburgh Promise | for the scholarship program. | 2018 | $750,000 |
| Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC | to train lay health educators to deliver the “Baby Basics” curriculum. | 2018 | $48,195 |
| Children's Museum of Pittsburgh | to support the first year of arts programming in Studio Lab. | 2018 | $50,000 |
| City of Asylum Pittsburgh | to expand free arts and cultural programming. | 2018 | $100,000 |