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Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
50%
First-time grantees FY2021
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67% of Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Trustees Of The University Of Pennsylvania, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’19
5
’20
1
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2019 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$270k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 50% of the organizations Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20212$2k50%
FY202010$23k50%
FY20197$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Philanthropy$22kReligion$16kCivil Rights$12kEducation$11kHealth$7kHuman Services$6kRecreation & Sports$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc$7,00010%
Chavurah Beth Shalom Inc$5,5002n/a
Adler Aphasia Center$5,05030%
Rutgers Hillel Corporation$60010%
Vestibular Disorders Association$25010%
St Josephs Indian School$1501n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc

How much does Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc give?
Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc reported 3 grants totaling $6,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2021.
What does Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Religion (22%), Civil Rights (16%).
Who are Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2021: Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc ($7k), Chavurah Beth Shalom Inc ($6k), Adler Aphasia Center ($5k).
Does Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc based?
Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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