· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN FUND UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $4,000 |
| ADLER APHASIA CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF BERGEN COUNTY AND NORTH HUDSON | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCHAVURAH BETH SHALOM INC2× · 2019–2020 · $6k
- AAADLER APHASIA CENTER3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
- JHJEWISH HOME FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $5k
Funded once
- KJKAPLEN JCC ON THE PALISADESone grant, 2020 · $9k
- JCJEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS INCone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue 0%
- J(JCPA (JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS )one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deane & Susan Penn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adler Aphasia Center: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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