[1] It provides grants from half of the proceeds of the 1% Allegheny County Sales and Use Tax.
25% of the funds go directly to the County and 25% goes to the other municipal governments based on a formula weighted to help distressed communities.
RAD grants are distributed to civic, cultural and recreational entities, libraries, parks and sports facilities.
[2] For 2018, the District adopted a budget of $99.9 million budget; about 32% of the funding will go to libraries, 30% to parks, trails and other green spaces, 15% to the sports and civic facilities, 12% to art and cultural organizations, 8% to regional facilities (Pittsburgh Zoo, National Aviary, Phipps Conservatory) and 3% to transit.
In 2018, the multi-year grants total about $14.1 million and, as in prior years, pays debt service on 1) bonds that were issued to support the Civic Arena project and related developments, and 2) bonds issued for the construction of Heinz Field, PNC Park and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
The total RAD funding for this group for 2018 is about $12.5 million, more than two-thirds of which goes to large, well-established organizations in the region, such as: