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2025 Awarded Grants

Below are the details of RAD's 2025 budget and grant allocations.

RAD's Asset categories are as follows:

  1. Contractual Assets: Organizations selected in 1994 for 10-year funding commitments that were reauthorized for five additional years in 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 and 2024;
  2. Annual Assets: Organizations that apply for support on an annual basis;
  3. Multi-Year Assets: Grants with commitments for more than one year of commitments beyond the contractual asset period.

Additional RAD support is available for Project Grants, with $750,000 allocated for 2025.

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2025 Operating GrantsTotaling

$122.4M

2025 Capital GrantsTotaling

$18.8M

Organizations FundedIn 2025

106

Contractual Assets

Organization Name

2025 Operating

2025 Capital

Allegheny County Library Association

Funding is contingent on the RAD library committee approving ACLA members' formula for distribution of funds.

$8,026,400

 

 

Allegheny County - Regional Parks

$26,835,830

 

$2,300,000

For repairs and upgrades to buildings, shelters, restrooms, and recreational facilities and to replace equipment across the County’s 9 regional parks.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Debt service

eiNetwork

eResources

$25,373,030

$1,000,000

$3,807,581

$279,289

 

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

$3,847,488

$600,000

For façade improvements at Carnegie Science Center and Carnegie Museum of Natural History

City of McKeesport - Renziehausen Park

$864,491

$480,000

For various improvements at ball fields, bandshell, accessibility, and to address drainage issues

City of Pittsburgh - Regional Parks

$8,748,254

$2,300,000

For retaining wall along Serpentine Drive in Schenley Park and improvement of Bandshell and Entrance at Grandview Park in Emerald View Park

National Aviary in Pittsburgh

$1,510,759

$600,000

For emergency/backup generator replacement

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

$2,912,741

$1,000,000

For phase 1 of steam pipe replacement project in the East Wing

Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

$5,806,569

$1,107,750

For building access control, perimeter fencing, ADA pathway improvements, generators and carpeting

Total Contractual 2025

$89,012,432

 $8,387,750

 

Annual Assets

Organization Name

2025 Operating 

2025 Capital

Afro American Music Institute

 

$24,500

 

Allegheny Brass Band

$3,800

 

Allegheny Land Trust

$30,000

$1,227,250

For Regional Trail Projects: $152,000 to Friends of the Riverfront for Paving on Three Rivers Heritage Trail; $18,000 to Hollow Oak Land Trust for 2 Streambank Stabilization projects; $6,500 to Mon Yough Trail Council for Installation of Gates; $100,000 to Montour Trail Council for Streambank Stabilization; $890,750 to the Municipality of Penn Hills for Construction of 1.1 miles of the VOPP Trail Connector; $60,000 to Steel Valley Trail Council for Repaving.

Allegheny RiverTrail Park

$10,000

 

Andrew Carnegie Music Hall

$7,500

 

Arcade Comedy Theater

$8,000

 

Assemble

$10,000

 

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

$8,000

 

Attack Theatre

$70,000

 

Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania

$45,000

 

August Wilson African American Cultural Center

$550,000

$80,000

For security system technology, particularly camera and security interface upgrades

August Wilson House

$30,000

 

Avonworth Municipal Authority - Avonworth Community Park

$35,000

 

Bach Choir of Pittsburgh

$9,120

 

Balafon West African Dance Ensemble

$5,000

 

Belle Voci

$3,300

 

Brew House Arts

$5,000

 

Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center

$5,000

 

Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society

$10,000

 

Chamber Music Pittsburgh

$20,000

 

Chatham Baroque

$25,000

 

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

$675,000

$490,000

For Arts Enterprise System for ticketing and donor management

City of Asylum

$50,000

 

City Theatre Company

$185,000

$20,143

For roof fascia replacement and gutter repairs

Confluence Ballet Co.

$3,000

 

Contemporary Craft

$95,000

$75,270

For facility function improvements

Dreams of Hope

$12,500

 

Edgewood Symphony Orchestra

$4,800

 

Film Pittsburgh

$10,000

 

Focus On Renewal (Father Ryan Arts Center)

$10,500

 

Frick Environmental Center

$25,000

$7,490

For the reconstruction of From Slavery to Freedom Garden; contingent on raising remainder

Front Porch Theatricals

$15,000

 

Gemini Theater Company

$7,500

 

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

$102,000

 

Handmade Arcade

$3,000

 

Hill Dance Academy Theatre

$32,000

 

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

$22,000

 

Kelly Strayhorn Theater

$100,000

 

Latin American Cultural Center

$5,000

 

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

$485,000

 

Mattress Factory

$95,000

 

Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

$13,000

 

New Hazlett Theater

$60,000

$54,000

For building upgrades for improved energy efficiency

New Horizon Theater

$40,000

 

North Hills Art Center

$15,000

 

North Pittsburgh Symphonic Band

$2,000

 

PearlArts Movement and Sound

$8,000

 

Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures

$40,000

 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

$215,000

 

$350,000

For air handler and lighting emergency funding

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

$85,000

 

Pittsburgh Camerata

$4,000

 

Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media

$45,000

 

Pittsburgh Chinese Cultural Center

$3,000

 

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera

$250,000

$250,000

For Construction Center HVAC replacement, contingent on raising remainder

Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting – WYEP

$45,000

To support marketing of RAD assets

 

Pittsburgh Concert Chorale

$5,000

 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

$2,500,000

 

$6,000,000

$5,000,000 in capital for 8th Street Block Civic Space and Cultural District Streetscaping over two years; $1,000,000 in capital for Benedum Center improvements

Pittsburgh Girls Choir

$2,500

 

Pittsburgh Glass Center

$95,000

 

Pittsburgh Musical Theater

$85,000

$200,000

For Phase 1B of PMT's Comprehensive Campaign: significan mechanical, electrical, and plumbing updates to the facility

Pittsburgh Opera

$240,000

 

Pittsburgh Philharmonic

$4,900

 

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

$52,500

$40,000

For ADA compliance work

Pittsburgh Public Theater

$240,000

 

Pittsburgh Regional Transit

$3,000,000

 

Pittsburgh Savoyards

$2,750

 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

$1,750,000

$250,000

To renovate and modernize Heinz Hall's administrative tower elevator

Pittsburgh Youth Chorus

$15,000

 

Pittsburgh Youth Concert Orchestra

$5,000

 

Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra

$20,000

 

Prime Stage Theatre

$20,000

 

Quantum Theatre

$53,000

$15,605

For audience chairs and assistive listening devices

Radiant Hall Studios

$7,500

 

Renaissance City Choir

$7,500

 

River City Brass

$125,000

 

Riverlife

$25,000

$61,000

For installation of accessible amenities on the deck of the Mobile Programming Barge

Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation

$55,000

$249,575

For construction phase one on AC Power House Events Center at the Carrie Blast Furnaces

Saltworks Theatre Company

$11,600

 

Senator John Heinz History Center

$850,000

$474,000

For HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) replacement for collections & safety

Silver Eye Center for Photography

$27,000

 

SLB Radio Productions

$14,000

 

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum

$380,000

 

South Hills Chorale

$4,500

 

South Park Theatre

$12,000

$10,000

For upgrades to indoor Mainstage, including re-rigging, new LED lighting fixtures, and replacing indoor stage floor

Sports and Exhibition Authority

$800,000

 

Squonk Opera, Inc.

$17,500

 

Sweetwater Center for the Arts

$52,500

 

The Frick Pittsburgh

$190,000

$75,000

For replacement of the fire alarm system at the Frick Art Museum

The Legacy Arts Project

$5,000

 

Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras

$27,000

 

Tickets for Kids

$40,000

Funding for Allegheny County activity only

 

Tuesday Musical Club

$4,900

 

Union Project

$20,000

 

Upper St. Clair Twp. - Boyce Mayview Park

$275,000

 

$395,000

For completion of Old Farm Road Trail, updates at Miracle League Field

Venture Outdoors

$10,000

 

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

$97,000

$61,495

For Phase One of Allegheny County Garden Sign Replacement Project

WQED Pittsburgh

$530,000

To support marketing of RAD assets

 

Total Annual 2025

$15,355,370

$10,385,828

 

Multi-Year Agreement

Regional Asset

2025 Operating 

Sports and Exhibition Authority

SEA Stadium Convention Center Bond Issue

$13,400,000

Grand Total Multi-Year 2025

$13,400,000

Other

Category

2025

Project Grants (Connection and Accessibility/Inclusion)

$750,000

 Partnerships & Initiatives

$2,500,000

Access & Opportunity

$10,000

RAD Administration

$1,395,375

Total Other 2025

$4,655,375

 

Total 2025 Budget

 

2025 Operating

2025 Capital/Program

Total

$122,423,177

$18,773,578

GRAND TOTAL 2025 BUDGET

 

$141,196,755