Funding search · EIN 823746641 · Pittsburgh, PA

Arts Equity & Education Fund

Name: Arts Equity & Education Fund grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

114
grants reported: $2.2M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $15,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

administrative costs artistic development exhibition company creative director

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

1 grant matching “westinghouse” · $18,500

$18,500
Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School · Wilmerding, PA · 2023
Purchase of piano lab equipment

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra4 grants · $260,000
The Ellis School4 grants · $122,500
California Institute of the Arts2 grants · $105,000
New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts3 grants · $80,000
Kelly Strayhorn Theater4 grants · $77,500
Braddock Carnegie Library Association2 grants · $70,000
Pittsburgh Glass Center2 grants · $70,000
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre2 grants · $70,000
Bunker Projects3 grants · $65,000
Matress Factory3 grants · $65,000

Giving over time

$538,500

2022

$551,500

2023

$555,600

2024

$557,500

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 114 grants.

$80,000
California Institute of the Arts · Valencia, CA · 2022
Support of administrative costs and operations
$75,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$75,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$75,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$55,000
Pittsburgh Glass Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of administrative costs and artist residencies
$50,000
Carnegie Museums · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$50,000
Art 21 for Everyone · New York, NY · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$50,000
Alma Lewis · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of part-time program administrator, exhibition and educational programming
$35,000
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre · Pitttsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of the scholarship fund
$35,000
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre · Pitttsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of the scholarship fund
$35,000
Braddock Carnegie Library Association · Braddock, PA · 2023
Support of director of development
$35,000
Braddock Carnegie Library Association · Braddock, PA · 2022
Support of director of development
$35,000
Bunker Projects · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of creative director position
$35,000
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of administrative costs
$32,500
The Ellis School · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of financial aid program
$30,000
The Ellis School · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of financial aid program
$30,000
The Ellis School · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of financial aid program
$30,000
New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of the resident company model
$30,000
Aperture · New York, NY · 2022
Support of notes toward becoming a spill
$30,000
The Ellis School · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of school scholarship program
$27,500
Kelly Strayhorn Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$25,000
Allentown Symphony Association · Allentown, PA · 2025
Musician in residence program
$25,000
Brew House Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
California Institute of the Arts · Valencia, CA · 2025
Support of administrative costs and operations
$25,000
Matress Factory · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of the resident company model
$25,000
Pearl Arts Movement & Sound · Braddock, PA · 2025
Support of capacity building
$25,000
Brew House Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
Bunker Projects · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$25,000
Kelly Strayhorn Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$25,000
Matress Factory · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
New Hazlett Theater Center for Performing Arts · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of the resident company model
$25,000
Producer Hub · Neew York, NY · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
Westmoreland Museum of American Art · Greensburg, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$25,000
Pearl Arts Movement & Sound · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of capacity building
$25,000
Art 21 · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of administrative costs
$25,000
The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of black mobility: autonomy and the automobile in pittsburgh 1916-1955 catalogue
$20,875
Westmoreland Museum of American Art · Greensburg, PA · 2022
Support of stephen towns exhibition
$20,000
Radiant Hall · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of residency program
$20,000
Silver Eye Center for Photography · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of fellowship 26 program
$20,000
Hill Dance Academy Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$20,000
Quantum Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$20,000
Alumni Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$20,000
City Theater Company · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of the kemp powers commissioning fund for black playwrights
$20,000
Manchester Craftsmen'S Guild · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of the william e. Strickland, jr. Fellowship
$20,000
Radiant Hall · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of residency program
$20,000
Kelly Strayhorn Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of administrative costs
$20,000
Women of Visions · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of magnificent motown art inspired by music
$18,500
Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School · Wilmerding, PA · 2023
Purchase of piano lab equipment
$17,500
Contemporary Craft · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs and program development
$17,500
Contemporary Craft · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs and program development
$15,000
Alumni Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$15,000
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of creative citizen studios program
$15,000
Center of Life · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$15,000
Texture Contemporary Ballet · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$15,000
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of creative citizen studios program
$15,000
Center of Life · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$15,000
Silver Eye Center for Photography · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of fellowship 25 program
$15,000
Society To Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka · Millvale, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$15,000
Unique Projects · New York, NY · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$15,000
Matress Factory · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of museum visitor guides
$15,000
Pittsburgh Glass Center · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of "the myth-science of the gatekeepers"
$15,000
Protohaven · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative expenses
$15,000
Women of Visions · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of summer sub project
$15,000
Mobballet · New York, NY · 2022
Support of 2022 symposium
$14,375
Flamenco Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$13,600
Art 21 for Everyone · New York, NY · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$12,500
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$12,000
Resonance Works · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$12,000
Creative Citizen Studios · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of professional studio for adult artists with disabilities
$10,000
City Theater Company · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of neighborly: a play on two stoops by chisa hutchinson
$10,000
Imani Christian Academy · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Prime Stage Theatre Co · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
Quantum Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
Resonance Works · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
The Legacy Arts Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
Alumni Theater · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
Carlow University · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of carlow university art gallery
$10,000
Charm City Cultural Cultivation · Baltimore, MD · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Imani Christian Academy · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Attack Theatre · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of the christian warner residency
$10,000
Brew House Association · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of artistic programming
$10,000
Center of Life · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Creative Time · New York, NY · 2023
Support of new red order's "the world's unfair"
$10,000
Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
Not Forgotten Home & Community Services · Carnegie, PA · 2023
Support of the c-art program
$10,000
Shana Simmons Dance · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of administrative costs
$10,000
The Frick Pittsburgh Museums and Gardens · Pittsburgh, PA · 2023
Support of selika talbott visit
$10,000
Creative Citizen Studios · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of mixed abilities exhibition: growth
$10,000
Radiant Hall · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of break down and let it all out exhibition catalog
$10,000
Sibyls Shrine · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022
Support of general operations
$8,000
Columbia Museum of Art · Columbia, SC · 2023
Support of "tina williams brewer: stories of grace" film
$8,000
Touchstone Center for Crafts · Farmington, PA · 2023
Support of community open house event
$5,000
Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of administrative costs
$5,000
The Union Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$5,000
Touchstone Center for Crafts · Farmington, PA · 2025
Support of artistic programming
$5,000
Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of administrative costs
$5,000
The Legacy Arts Project · Pittsburgh, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming
$5,000
Touchstone Center for Crafts · Farmington, PA · 2024
Support of artistic programming

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.