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 |
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Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. | to support the production of Philip Glass' Orphée and a sustainability campaign. | 2014 | $75,000 |
Artists Upstairs | to support the presentation of Sites of Passage ($13,000) and technical assistance ($10,000). | 2014 | $23,000 |
Balafon West African Dance Ensemble | to support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by choreographer Hamidou Bangoura. | 2014 | $15,000 |
Citizen Power | for the Pennsylvania Health Care Advocacy Project. | 2014 | $50,000 |
Leadership Pittsburgh | to support Leadership UnboXXed. | 2014 | $65,000 |
Pittsburgh United | for the Clean Rivers Campaign, a collaborative citizen outreach effort to build understanding and support for prioritizing green infrastructure investment. |
2014 | $50,000 |
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council | to support core assistance programs for the region's artists and arts organizations. | 2014 | $50,000 |
Allegheny Conference on Community Development | to support the Leader to Leader Initiative. | 2014 | $15,000 |
Three Rivers Area Labor Management Committee | for the 2014 Pittsburgh Pipeline Summer Program. | 2014 | $25,000 |
TRWIB, Inc. | to build a better understanding of labor market dynamics, workforce needs and workforce services in Pittsburgh's East End. | 2014 | $42,000 |
Legacy Arts Project | to support two artist residencies. | 2014 | $7,000 |
Friends to Friends, Inc. | to expand Friends to Friends programs serving special needs children. | 2014 | $20,000 |
Student Conservation Association, Inc. | to support summer employment for low-income Pittsburgh youth in collaboration with the City's Summer Youth Employment Program and Project 15206. | 2014 | $75,000 |
Alia Musica Pittsburgh | to support the Pittsburgh Festival of New Music. | 2014 | $10,000 |
Sarah Heinz House Association | for operating support. | 2014 | $175,000 |
Looking Glass Institute | to launch a veterans fundraising collaborative. | 2014 | $50,000 |
The Pittsburgh Promise | to support The Pittsburgh Promise Scholarship Program. | 2014 | $750,000 |
Community Theater Project Corporation | to support Sala Udin's presentation of the August Wilson Birthday Project. | 2014 | $25,000 |
Carnegie Mellon University | for a 2014 Kaufman New Investigator research grant entitled, "Investigation of Pancreatic Islet Electrical Properties by a High Density Nanodevices Array" by Dr. Tzahi Cohen-Karni (PI). | 2014 | $150,000 |
Villanova University | for a 2014 Kaufman New Investigator research grant entitled, "Analysis of the role of SMK-1 in the age-dependent regulation of the FOXO transcription factory DAF-16 in Caenorhabditis elegans" by Dr. Matt Youngman (PI). | 2014 | $150,000 |
University of Pittsburgh | for a 2014 Kaufman New Investigator research grant entitled, "Protecting quantum information with disorder" by Dr. David Pekker (PI). | 2014 | $150,000 |
University of Pittsburgh | for a 2014 Kaufman New Investigator research grant entitled, "Co-evolutionary Signatures as a Novel Approach to Gene Discovery" by Dr. Nathan Clark (PI). | 2014 | $150,000 |
University of Pittsburgh | for a 2014 Kaufman New Initiative research grant entitled, "Expanding the Genetic Code of Zebrafish" by Dr. Alexander Deiters (PI) and Dr. Michael Tsang (Co-PI). | 2014 | $300,000 |
Carnegie Mellon University | for a 2014 Kaufman New Initiative research grant entitled, "Neural Circuitry of the Mammalian Neocortex" by Dr. Alison Barth (PI) and Dr. Marcel Bruchez (Co-PI). | 2014 | $300,000 |
Pennsylvania State University | for a 2014 Kaufman New Initiative research grant entitled, "Autonomous Interacting Microrobotic Systems" by Dr. Ayusman Sen (PI) and Dr. Anna C. Balazs (Co-PI) of the University of Pittsburgh. | 2014 | $300,000 |
University of Pennsylvania | for a 2014 Kaufman New Initiative research grant entitled, "Living Photonic Devices: Self-assembly from Proteins as Patchy Colloids" by Dr. Alison Sweeney (PI) and Dr. Randall Kamien (Co-PI). | 2014 | $300,000 |
Lehigh University | for a 2014 Kaufman New Investigator research grant entitled, "Epistatic interactions and constraints on evolutionary outcomes in yeast experimental evolution" by Dr. Gregory Lang (PI). | 2014 | $150,000 |
Point Park University | to support the film “Low Tide in Serf City”. | 2014 | $9,500 |
Schenley Heights Development Program, Inc. | to support the Still in School Project. | 2014 | $135,000 |
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble | for general operating support for FY 2014 and FY 2015. | 2014 | $20,000 |
New Hazlett Center for the Performing Arts | to support Front Porch Theatricals' production of the play “Parade.” | 2014 | $6,500 |
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre | to support the acquisition and mounting of Beauty and the Beast. | 2014 | $100,000 |
Mattress Factory | to support the 2014-2015 exhibitions program. | 2014 | $75,000 |
Pittsburgh Association for the Education of Young Children | for operating support. | 2014 | $90,000 |
City of Pittsburgh | to support the Bureau of Neighborhood Empowerment. | 2014 | $130,000 |
Grow Pittsburgh | to support the Braddock Farms project, with a particular emphasis on providing fresh produce to the borough's senior population. | 2014 | $25,000 |
University of Pittsburgh | for the Pittsburgh's Racial Demographics Report: Differences and Disparities, 2014. | 2014 | $29,500 |
United Way of Allegheny County | to support United for Women initiative. | 2014 | $100,000 |
Afro-American Music Institute | to support the Executive Leadership Succession Plan. | 2014 | $75,000 |
Mon Valley Initiative | for 2014 support of the Workforce and Business Development Program. | 2014 | $150,000 |
Alumni Theater Company | for the production of 'Hair.' | 2014 | $8,500 |
Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania | to provide training and technical assistance to new and existing mentoring programs. | 2014 | $75,000 |
Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest PA | to support capacity building and staffing. | 2014 | $50,000 |
Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh | to support Out with Friends Clubs for the 2014-15 school year while they transition to a permanent home. | 2014 | $50,000 |
POISE Foundation | to support the salary of the newly created position of Program Officer. | 2014 | $60,000 |
Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film Society, Inc. | to support the 2014 ReelQ Film Festival and related programming. | 2014 | $5,000 |
Pittsburgh Filmmakers | to support the creation of a transmedia documentary project. | 2014 | $8,200 |
Macedonia Family and Community Enrichment Center | to support the Community Truancy Intervention Project. | 2014 | $45,000 |
Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh | to support the American Jewish Museum's exhibition Jane Haskell: Drawing in Light. | 2014 | $15,000 |
Carnegie Mellon University | to support The Drift project. | 2014 | $15,000 |