Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

3,287
foundations with a Pittsburgh address
$1.4B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
469
say they accept unsolicited
$13,001
median grant

Grantlas lists 3,287 foundations that gave a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania address on their tax filing — 3,259 private foundations and 28 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $1.4 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 469 of them (14%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Pittsburgh foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 3,287 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 444 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hillman Family Foundations$20,000$88.8M$75–$5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Heinz Endowments$70,000$85.4M$1,500–$6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Pnc Foundation$79.8M$78.8M$78.8M–$80.8MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated$200,000$45.3M$27,000–$1.2MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
McCune Foundation Pnc Bank NA$170,000$41.8M$12,600–$9.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh$100,000$25.4M$1,140–$3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Allegheny Foundation$150,000$24.1M$7,500–$2.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Colcom Foundation$62,500$21M$5,000–$2.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Jack Buncher Foundation$20,224$21M$575–$2.5MFY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Edith L Trees Tw Char TR Art X$19.5M$19.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Highmark Foundation$10,000$18.7M$900–$5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Champlin Foundation$49,750$18.1M$2,232–$700,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Eden Hall Foundation$14.7M$14.7M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation$75,000$14M$500–$348,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Grable Foundation$20,000$13.3M$2,000–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Rider-Pool Foundation$500,000$12.3M$500,000–$10.3MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
PPG Industries Foundation$10.5M$10.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Cahouet Foundation TR$8.7M$8.7M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
McElhattan Foundation$50,000$7.7M$2,500–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Gar Foundation$7.5M$7.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lola G Duff & William H Duff II Scholarship$6.5M$6.5M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
English-Bonter-Mitchell Foundation$25,000$6.4M$5,000–$550,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bny Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pa$200,000$5.1M$25,000–$1.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Beacon Foundation$150,000$4.3M$24,204–$1.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Buhl Foundation$25,000$4.2M$1,500–$300,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

3,262 more foundations — see all in Grantlas

Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.