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 descending | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kente Arts Alliance | to support the Alto Madness Jazz Series. | 2014 | $15,000 |
| Partnership for Minority HIV/AIDS Prevention | for the 2014 Sembène: The Film & Arts Festival. | 2014 | $10,000 |
| Chatham University | to support the Make Mine Words reading series organized by the Creative Writing Program. | 2014 | $15,000 |
| East End Cooperative Ministry | to implement Work Therapy, a new component of its adult education and employment program. | 2014 | $75,000 |
| Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh, Inc. | to support the renovation of the Delta Foundation of Pittsburgh's new headquarters. | 2014 | $45,000 |
| Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group | to engage its member organizations and the general public in shaping policies and procedures of the Pittsburgh Land Bank. | 2014 | $50,000 |
| Pittsburgh Filmmakers | to support the implementation of new educational programming. | 2014 | $125,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation | to build support for green infrastructure implementation in Allegheny County municipalities. | 2014 | $48,000 |
| Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Inc. | to support a production by the Neighborhood Opera Company. | 2014 | $5,000 |
| Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation | to support audience engagement initiatives and education programming. | 2014 | $50,000 |
| Pittsburgh Botanic Garden | for the Cove Forest woodlands habitat restoration project. | 2014 | $100,000 |
| 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 |