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2024 Awarded Grants

Below are the details of RAD's 2024 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 $500,000 budgeted for 2024.

Click Here for RAD's 2024 Budget Book

2024 Operating GrantsTotaling

$120.1

2024 Capital GrantsTotaling

$19.6M

Organizations FundedIn 2024

105

Contractual Assets

Organization Name

2024 Operating

2024 Capital

Allegheny County Library Association

Conditioned on approving ACLA members' formula for distribution of funds

$7,754,976

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

 

Allegheny County - Regional Parks

$25,557,932

 

$5,565,000

For repairs and upgrades to buildings, shelters, restrooms, and recreational facilities and to replace equipment across the County's 9 regional parks, and various other projects

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh

Funding for shared services contingent on progress reports reviewed by the RAD Library Committee

Debt service

eiNetwork

eResources

$24,481,188

 


$1,000,000

$3,678,822

$269,844

$3,123,075

To eiNetwork for PC refresh for all CLP and county libraries, conditioned on needs assessment and evaluation

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

$3,735,423

$360,000

For an elevator modernization project at Carnegie Science Center

City of McKeesport - Renziehausen Park

$839,312

$500,000

For Main Pavilion improvements

City of Pittsburgh - Regional Parks

$8,331,670

$2,780,000

For improvements, including: Schenley Park Tennis and Pickleball Court upgrades, Schenley Park Soccer Field Lighting, Riverview Activities Building renovation, and Riverview Park Playground

National Aviary in Pittsburgh

$1,466,756

$252,000

For roof repairs

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

$2,827,904

$400,000

For Sunken Room restoration

Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium

$5,278,699

$1,500,000

For Evolv weapon detection system, ADA and other pathway improvements, public restroom upgrades, and additional projects

Total Contractual 2024

$85,222,526

 $14,480,075

 

Annual Assets

Organization Name

2024 Operating 

2024 Capital

Afro American Music Institute

Conditioned on timely reporting to RAD

$24,500

 

Allegheny Brass Band

$3,800

 

Allegheny Land Trust

$30,000

$253,850

For Allegheny Land for Dead Man's Hollow Calhoun Parking Lot ($15,000); Friends of the Riverfront for Three Rivers Heritage Trail in Baldwin Borough ($138,850); Hollow Oak Land Trust to build pedestrian/bike crossing of Beaver Grade Road ($30,000); Montour Trail Council to complete final 1,000 feet of trail in the floodway in Coraopolis ($50,000); and, Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy to construct a mile-long trail ($20,000)

Allegheny RiverTrail Park

$5,000

$253,850

To continue developing linear park in Aspinwall, O'Hara, and Sharpsburg

Andrew Carnegie Music Hall

$7,500

 

Arcade Comedy Theater

$8,000

$5,000

For portable production equipment

Assemble

$7,500

 

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh

$8,000

 

Attack Theatre

$65,000

 

Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania

$40,000

 

August Wilson African American Cultural Center

$550,000

$410,000

For audio-visual equipment ($75,000) and HVAC project ($335,000) contingent on raising remainder

August Wilson House

$25,000

 

Avonworth Municipal Authority - Avonworth Community Park

$35,000

 

Bach Choir of Pittsburgh

$9,120

 

Balafon West African Dance Ensemble

$3,000

 

Belle Voci

$3,000

 

Brew House Arts

$3,500

 

Bulgarian Macedonian National Educational and Cultural Center

$5,000

 

Calliope: The Pittsburgh Folk Music Society

$10,000

 

Chamber Music Pittsburgh

$20,000

 

Chatham Baroque

$22,000

 

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

$600,000

 

City of Asylum

$45,000

 

City Theatre Company

$175,000

$15,000

For egress wall

Confluence Ballet Co.

$3,000

 

Contemporary Craft

$89,000

 

Dreams of Hope

$12,500

 

Edgewood Symphony Orchestra

$4,800

 

Film Pittsburgh

$9,000

 

Focus On Renewal (Father Ryan Arts Center)

$10,500

 

Frick Environmental Center

$25,000

 

Front Porch Theatricals

$15,000

 

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

$20,000

 

Kelly Strayhorn Theater

$95,000

$121,186

For portable upgrades, including Projector, Alloy Studio Audio, Alloy Studio Lighting, and KST Lobby trusses

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild

$475,000

$135,000

To make ticketing box office and new Archives and Education Center on first floor of the building accessible to all

Mattress Factory

$95,000

 

Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh

$13,000

 

New Hazlett Theater

$50,000

$45,000

For window and door replacements and high-efficiency heat pump ductless unit, contingent on raising remainder

New Horizon Theater

$40,000

 

North Hills Art Center

$15,000

 

North Pittsburgh Symphonic Band

$2,000

 

PearlArts Movement and Sound

$7,500

$55,000

To complete buildout of Braddock Arts & Media project at 818 Braddock Ave, contingent on raising remainder

Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures

$36,000

 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre

$195,000

 

$150,000

To support Air Handler and Flooring replacement projects

Pittsburgh Botanic Garden

$75,000

 

Pittsburgh Camerata

$4,000

 

Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media

$35,000

 

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera

$225,000

$800,000

To replace the CLO Construction Center roof

Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting – WYEP

$45,000

To support marketing of RAD assets

$225,000

To replace WYEP's 15-year old FM transmitter

Pittsburgh Concert Chorale

$5,000

 

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

$2,200,000

 

$220,000

For Benedum Center Theatrical Lighting Upgrades

Pittsburgh Girls Choir

$2,500

 

Pittsburgh Glass Center

$85,000

$125,000

To reactivate a vacant building for flexible community arts space in Garfield

Pittsburgh Musical Theater

$80,000

$50,000

To redesign accessibility ramp

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble

$7,500

 

Pittsburgh Opera

$225,000

$153,789

For lighting equipment, projection equipment, costume cases, and commercial-quality laundry equipment

Pittsburgh Philharmonic

$4,900

 

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

$50,000

$141,000

To purchase four mini-split air conditioning units

Pittsburgh Public Theater

$230,000

$185,300

For safety and operational equipment at the O'Reilly Theater

Pittsburgh Regional Transit

$3,000,000

 

Pittsburgh Savoyards

$2,750

 

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

$1,750,000

$200,000

For partial match for terra cotta project

Pittsburgh Youth Chorus

$15,000

 

Pittsburgh Youth Concert Orchestra

$3,000

 

Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra

$20,000

 

Prime Stage Theatre

$17,000

 

Quantum Theatre

$48,000

 

Radiant Hall Studios

$5,000

 

Renaissance City Choir

$5,000

 

River City Brass

$115,000

 

Riverlife

$15,000

$398,800

For accessible mobile programming barge to be used on the Downtown Pittsburgh riverfront

Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation

$50,000

 

Saltworks Theatre Company

$11,600

 

Senator John Heinz History Center

$800,000

$600,000

To support phase one of HVAC replacement project

Silver Eye Center for Photography

$24,500

 

SLB Radio Productions

$12,000

 

Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum

$360,000

 

South Hills Chorale

$4,500

 

South Park Theatre

$11,000

 

Sports and Exhibition Authority

$800,000

 

Squonk Opera, Inc.

$17,500

 

Sweetwater Center for the Arts

$52,500

 

The Frick Pittsburgh

$185,000

$300,000

For accessibility improvements and $50,000 for climate control

Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras

$22,500

 

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

$265,000

 

$250,000

For paved trail extension of the Old Farm Road Trail

Venture Outdoors

$3,000

$100,000

For the construction of the Kayak Pittsburgh Downtown Concession & Community Hub relocation

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

$97,000

 

WQED Pittsburgh

$525,000

To support marketing of RAD assets

$84,750

For partial match to replace and update the equipment that feeds into the FM transmitter

Total Annual 2024

$14,637,870

$5,093,675

 

Multi-Year Agreement

Regional Asset

2024 Operating 

Sports and Exhibition Authority

SEA Stadium Convention Center Bond Issue

$13,400,000

Grand Total Multi-Year 2024

$13,400,000

Other

Category

2024

Project Grants (Connection and Accessibility/Inclusion)

$500,000

 Partnerships & Initiatives

$5,000,000

Access & Opportunity

$10,000

RAD Administration

$1,356,700

Total Other 2024

$6,866,700

 

Total 2024 Budget

 

2024 Operating

2024 Capital/Program

Total

$114,617,096

$25,083,750

GRAND TOTAL 2024 BUDGET

 

$139,700,846