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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 23-6745014

Cairns Ernestine Bacon Trust UW

A private foundation in Pittsburgh, PA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 3 grants and $100,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

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Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $100,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $2,213,269

  • Tax year 2024

    $100,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $2,247,170

  • Tax year 2023

    $100,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $1,934,663

  • Tax year 2022

    $110,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $1,957,780

  • Tax year 2021

    $110,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $2,034,912

  • Tax year 2020

    $110,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $1,946,945

  • Tax year 2019

    $105,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $1,977,084

  • Tax year 2018

    $105,000

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $2,004,364

Grants paid in 2025

3 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. The Curtis Institute of MusicPhiladelphia, PA

    General operating

    $50,000
  2. Individual

    Scholarships

    $25,000
  3. Settlement Music SchoolPhiladelphia, PA

    General operating

    $25,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $50,000100% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Pennsylvania2 grants $75,000

Officers, directors and trustees

1 person as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • BNY Mellon N ATRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $39,714

The return

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