{"id":215623,"date":"2026-06-10T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:19:18","slug":"the-pittsburgh-foundation-awards-7-9m-in-grants-with-focus-on-basic-needs-smaller-nonprofits-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215623\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pittsburgh Foundation awards $7.9M in grants with focus on basic needs, smaller nonprofits \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 One of the region\u2019s largest foundations is awarding 124 grants at a combined total of $7.9 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh Foundation\u2019s spring grant cycle benefits a wide range of Pittsburgh-area nonprofits as organizations providing basic needs services received 49% of the grants. Basic needs services are resources focused on improving food access, housing, child care, physical and mental health care, education and employment opportunities. The remainder were dispersed among other priority areas such as equity and social justice, environmental action, arts and culture, and economic mobility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pittsburghfoundation.mediavalet.com\/galleries\/8aae418e-18ad-4812-864b-e16b168f03bc_533f8f34-af32-4ed3-b5a8-1dc7cbf01748-ExternalUser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spring cycle portfolio reflects prioritizing support<\/a> for organizations historically facing barriers to accessing and securing meaningful philanthropic resources. It also focuses on increasing multi-year and general operating support grants to nonprofits and supporting small- to medium-size nonprofits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/08\/pittsburgh-foundation-grants-spring-2026.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/06\/08\/pittsburgh-foundation-grants-spring-2026.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 One of the region\u2019s largest foundations is awarding 124 grants at a combined total of $7.9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20002,7923,10405,8080,35170,529,60,1707,5365,13078,14465,2265,2807,12933,35171,107,10734,19611,7685,2084,34636,24972,13558,83,16888,3799,15656,35172,35173,15181,21727,35174,73,75,74,874,65,5378,7213,593,35175,35176,7175,4051],"class_list":["post-215623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-20002","tag-american","tag-bank","tag-batch","tag-benjamin","tag-bill","tag-business","tag-cash","tag-close-up","tag-currency","tag-dollar","tag-finance","tag-franklin","tag-green","tag-greenback","tag-group","tag-heap","tag-hundred","tag-isolated","tag-jackpot","tag-large","tag-loan","tag-many","tag-money","tag-nobody","tag-number","tag-object","tag-pack","tag-package","tag-paper","tag-pay","tag-pile","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-president","tag-salary","tag-sign","tag-thousand","tag-us","tag-usd","tag-wages","tag-wealth","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}