The foundation concentrates almost exclusively on supporting K–12 private schooling in the Pittsburgh area, with a strong emphasis on subsidizing tuition through scholarship/program support for Jewish day schools. Grants are large, targeted, and recurrent to a very small set of schools, with occasional support to other independent private schools in the region. The foundation’s giving is clearly mission-driven toward maintaining access to faith-based elementary and secondary education locally.
Highly concentrated: few, very large grants directed repeatedly to the same core grantees (multi-grant relationships), focused on scholarship/program support rather than broad geographic or program diversity.
Pittsburgh Jewish Educational Improvement Foundation concentrates its recent giving on scholarship program support for a small group of Pittsburgh schools, with three Jewish day schools receiving the largest awards. In 2023, Yeshiva Schools received $964,212, Community Day School received $726,741, and Hillel Academy received $595,805, showing a clear emphasis on tuition support for K–12 education. That pattern continued in 2024, when the same schools again received scholarship funding: Yeshiva Schools got $381,468, Community Day School $308,197, and Hillel Academy $234,191. The foundation also provided smaller support to Winchester Thurston School, another Pittsburgh private school, with grants of $25,000 in both 2023 and 2024. Across the recent grants listed, the foundation gives restricted education support rather than broad operating gifts, and the recipient set is narrow and repeated. The result is a grantmaking profile centered on sustaining access to local private schooling, especially Jewish elementary and secondary education in Pittsburgh.
Scholarship support is the clearest theme in the foundation’s grantmaking. The largest grant in the recent list was $964,212 to Yeshiva Schools for scholarship program support, followed by similar awards to Community Day School and Hillel Academy for the same purpose. That makes tuition assistance a core mechanism, not an occasional one. The foundation also supports education access across multiple Jewish day-school settings, with grants to both Orthodox-leaning and broader Jewish community schools in Pittsburgh. Beyond those schools, it made two $25,000 scholarship program support grants to Winchester Thurston School, indicating some support for independent private schooling outside the Jewish day-school network. The named recipients and repeated purpose text point to a focused approach: direct student financial aid through school-based scholarship programs.
Typical grant size is substantial: the 25th percentile is $181,893, the median is $344,832, and the 75th percentile is $628,539. The recent record shows repeated awards to the same schools in both 2023 and 2024, so the pattern is recurring rather than one-off. Grants are program-specific scholarship awards, not unrestricted support, and the foundation does not fund individuals directly. The grant list also suggests a tightly managed portfolio, with a small number of recipients absorbing most of the dollars.
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Most grants fall between $182K and $629K, with a median of $345K.
25th Percentile
$182K
Median
$345K
75th Percentile
$629K
JEFFREY H FINKELSTEIN
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Notable grantees: Yeshiva Schools, Community Day School, Hillel Academy, Winchester Thurston School
Grantmaking is local and entirely in Pennsylvania, with 100% of grants going to recipients in the HQ state. The recipient city shown in the recent grants is Pittsburgh, including Yeshiva Schools, Community Day School, Hillel Academy, and Winchester Thurston School. The pattern is concentrated in one metro area rather than spread across multiple states or countries.
It mainly funds scholarship program support for Pittsburgh private schools, especially Jewish day schools. In the recent grants list, the largest awards went to Yeshiva Schools, Community Day School, and Hillel Academy for scholarship program support.
Its grant sizes are relatively large and tightly clustered. The 25th percentile is $181,893, the median is $344,832, and the 75th percentile is $628,539.
Yes. Yeshiva Schools, Community Day School, and Hillel Academy each received scholarship program support in both 2023 and 2024, and Winchester Thurston School also appears in both years.
The grants are restricted to scholarship program support. That pattern appears across the recent list, indicating direct tuition-assistance funding rather than general operating support.
The grants are local and all recent recipients in the data are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The recipient country distribution is entirely U.S.-based, and 100% of grants went to recipients in the HQ state of Pennsylvania.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | PITTSBURGH, PA | $965,301 | 2026 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $805,776 | 2026 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HILLEL ACADEMY | PITTSBURGH, PA | $768,445 | 2026 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $25,000 | 2026 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | PITTSBURGH, PA | $726,272 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $560,824 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HILLEL ACADEMY | PITTSBURGH, PA | $437,746 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $25,000 | 2025 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | PITTSBURGH, PA | $381,468 | 2024 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $308,197 | 2024 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HILLEL ACADEMY | PITTSBURGH, PA | $234,191 | 2024 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $25,000 | 2024 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | PITTSBURGH, PA | $964,212 | 2023 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $726,741 | 2023 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| HILLEL ACADEMY | PITTSBURGH, PA | $595,805 | 2023 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | PITTSBURGH, PA | $25,000 | 2023 | SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM SUPPORT |