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2023 Awarded Grants

Below are the details of RAD's 2023 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, and 2020;
  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 $1,000,000 budgeted for 2023.

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2023 Operating GrantsTotaling

$112.2M

2023 Capital GrantsTotaling

$14.2M

Organizations FundedIn 2023

99

Contractual Assets

Organization Name

2023 Operating

2023 Capital

Allegheny County Library Association

Conditioned on approving ACLA members' formula for distribution of funds

$7,368,928

ACLA Distribution formula for member libraries considers the following: Base Funding, Population, Distress Status, NonResident Use, Local Income and impact.

$3,000,000

One-time supplemental County Library Support for 2023

 

Allegheny County - Regional Parks

$24,340,888

 

$4,090,000

For renovations, upgrades and infrastructure at the nine county regional parks: Boyce, Deer Lakes, Harrison Hills, Hartwood Acres, North, Round Hill, Settlers Cabin, South, and White Oak

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Conditioned on shared services progress reviewed by RAD Library Committee

Debt service

eiNetwork

eResources

$23,539,604

 


$1,000,000

$3,549,970

$259,465

$250,000

For Main Library entrance accessibility improvements

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

$3,609,104

$309,760

For skylight repair and replacement

City of McKeesport - Renziehausen Park

$814,866

$500,000

For Stephen Barry Field lighting

City of Pittsburgh - Regional Parks

$6,769,700

$2,000,000

For renovations, enhancements, and upgrades at Emerald View, Frick Highland, Riverview and Schenley Parks

National Aviary in Pittsburgh

$1,410,342

$565,000

For safety and security infrastructure upgrades; new '70 Years of Impact' exhibit

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

$2,719,138

$400,000

For Desert room restoration

Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

$4,278,699

$1,038,000

For ADA audit remediation problems, carpet replacement, education center roof, and upgrades to server

Total Contractual 2023

$82,660,704

 $9,152,760

 

Annual Assets

Organization Name

2023 Operating 

2023 Capital

Afro American Music Institute

Conditioned on timely reporting and re-engagement of the Boys Choir

$24,500

 

Allegheny Brass Band

$3,800

 

Allegheny Land Trust

$30,000

$111,555

For Hollow Oak Land Trust improvements at Montour Woods ($45,055), Rachel Carson Trail ($20,000), Steel Valley Trail ($18,000), Wingfield Pines ($17,500), and Mon Yough Trail Council ($11,000)

Andrew Carnegie Music Hall

$7,500

 

Arcade Comedy Theater

$6,000

 

Assemble

$3,500

 

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

$8,000

 

Attack Theatre

$55,000

 

Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania

$35,000

$30,000

For Raptor Center rehab

August Wilson African American Cultural Center

$525,000

$200,000

For repairs to Milt and Nancy Washington Plaza and lighting upgrades

August Wilson House (a project of the Daisy Wilson Artist Community, Inc.)

$25,000

 

Avonworth Municipal Authority - Avonworth Community Park

$35,000

 

Bach Choir of Pittsburgh

$9,120

 

Belle Voci

$2,500

 

Brew House Association

$3,000

 

Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center

$5,000

$18,000

For kitchen renovations, contingent on organization raising the remaining funds and completing project in 2023

Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society

$9,500

 

Chamber Music Pittsburgh

$18,000

 

Chatham Baroque

$22,000

 

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

$600,000

 

City of Asylum

$45,000

 

City Theatre Company

$140,000

$80,000

For accessibility upgrades and theatre equipment replacement

Contemporary Craft

$82,000

 

corningworks

$3,500

 

Dreams of Hope

$11,000

 

Edgewood Symphony Orchestra

$4,800

 

Film Pittsburgh

$7,500

 

Focus On Renewal (Father Ryan Arts Center)

$10,500

$11,300

For meeting space renovation in Arts Center

Front Porch Theatricals

$10,000

$12,000

For sound equipment, including microphones and wireless receivers

Gemini Theater Company

$7,500

 

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

$102,000

 

Guardians of Sound

$2,500

 

Hill Dance Academy Theatre

$30,000

 

Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

$9,000

$10,000

For technology upgrades

Kelly Strayhorn Theater

$90,000

 

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

$450,000

$125,000

For accessibility upgrades to concert hall and ceramic studio

Mattress Factory

$90,000

 

Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

$12,650

 

New Hazlett Theater

$40,000

$57,500

For exterior lighting enhancements and other safety repairs

New Horizon Theater

$40,000

 

North Hills Art Center

$14,250

 

North Pittsburgh Symphonic Band

$2,000

 

PearlArts Movement and Sound

$5,000

 

Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures

$30,000

 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

$194,000

 

 

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

$65,000

 

Pittsburgh Camerata

$4,000

 

Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media

$28,000

 

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera

$215,000

 

Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting – WYEP

$42,500

To support marketing of RAD assets

 

Pittsburgh Concert Chorale

$4,750

 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

$2,000,000

 

$950,000

For Greer Cabaret renovation project

Pittsburgh Girls Choir

$2,500

 

Pittsburgh Glass Center

$750,000

$250,000

For roof replacement and expansion

Pittsburgh Musical Theater

$67,000

$82,000

For water mitigation and masonry repair with the condition of organization raising the remaining $100,000 to complete the project

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

$7,600

 

Pittsburgh Opera

$215,000

$73,239

For HVAC and security upgrades

Pittsburgh Philharmonic

$4,900

 

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

$50,000

 

Pittsburgh Public Theater

$220,000

$75,000

For production equipment

Pittsburgh Regional Transit

$3,000,000

 

Pittsburgh Savoyards

$2,500

 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

$1,650,000

$500,000

For boiler conversion project at Heinz Hall

Pittsburgh Youth Chorus

$12,000

 

Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra

$20,000

 

Prime Stage Theatre

$17,000

 

Quantum Theatre

$48,000

 

Radiant Hall Studios

$4,000

 

Renaissance City Choir

$5,000

 

River City Brass

$115,000

$25,000

For new instruments, contingent on organization securing $27,043 balance first

Riverlife

$10,000

$50,000

For Allegheny Landing renovation on the North Shore

Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation

$35,000

 

Saltworks Theatre Company

$11,600

 

Senator John Heinz History Center

$680,000

Operating increase dedicated to new Museum of African American History

$85,000

For replacement of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system

Silver Eye Center for Photography

$24,500

 

SLB Radio Productions

$7,000

 

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Musueum

$354,000

$1,233,867

For upper roof parapet restoration & repair ($1,095,000), surveillance system upgrade ($105,531) and carpet replacement ($33,336)

South Hills Chorale

$4,500

 

South Park Theatre

$11,000

 

Sports and Exhibition Authority

$800,000

 

Squonk Opera, Inc.

$15,000

 

Sweetwater Center for the Arts

$52,500

$6,110

For ceramic pugmill

The Frick Pittsburgh

$175,000

$400,000

For campus lighting and security upgrades

Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras

$20,000

 

Tickets for Kids

$30,000

Funding for Allegheny County activity only

 

Tuesday Musical Club

$4,900

 

Union Project

$16,000

$75,000

For roof replacement and related masonry work

Upper St. Clair Twp. - Boyce Mayview Park

$252,000

 

$375,000

For Miracle League improvements, old farm trail, pavilion-playground

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

$95,800

 

WQED Pittsburgh

$500,000

To support marketing of RAD assets

$250,000

For FM transmitter replacement

Total Annual 2023

$13,834,170

$5,085,571

 

Multi-Year Agreement

Regional Asset

2023 Operating 

Sports and Exhibition Authority

SEA Stadium Convention Center Bond Issue

$13,400,000

Grand Total Multi-Year 2023

$13,400,000

Other

Category

2023

Project Grants (Connection and Accessibility/Inclusion)

$1,000,000

Access & Opportunity / Partnerships & Initiatives

$810,000

RAD Administration

$1,327,546

Total Other 2023

$3,137,546

 

Total 2023 Budget

 

2023 Operating

2023 Capital/Program

Total

$113,032,420

$14,238,331

GRAND TOTAL 2023 BUDGET

 

$127,270,751