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Penn Entertainment Foundation

Support of local non-profit organizations in the communities where penn entertainment operates, focusing on projects that promote community development, education, human services, cultural affairs and diversity, health and human services, and support of veterans and active members of the military. Its fy2024 filing reports that it…

$452k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
49
Grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
48%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 49
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Penn Entertainment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2024still arriving48$427k58%
FY202333$555k48%
FY202210$261k50%
FY202133$1.9M55%
FY202010$1.4M20%
FY201937$368k43%
FY201831$150k45%
FY201749$138kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.8MHuman Services$446kHealth$415kPhilanthropy$390kCommunity Improvement$287kArts & Culture$231kYouth Development$222kHousing & Shelter$219kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 110 grantees
All grantees of Penn Entertainment Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Berks County Inc$207,50050%
Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development Inc$127,00026%
Southwest Solutions Inc$125,84621%
Motown Historical Musuem Inc$125,84521%
My Sistahs Pink Journey$113,5652n/a
Bing Youth Institute$113,5652n/a
Orchards Children's Services Inc$104,94220%
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc$100,00011%
Robert Irvine Foundation Inc$85,000317%
Mary's Shelter$78,35472%
Opportunity House$63,76870%
Baseballtown Charities$62,500510%
The Midnight Golf Program$60,00013%
Im Able Foundation$53,80077%
Pennsylvania State University$50,0001n/a
Penn State Health$50,00010%
Laney's Legacy of Hope$33,15055%
Hope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading$32,00051%
Safe Berks$30,54060%
Reading Hospital Foundation$30,00020%
YMCA of Reading & Berks County$28,92560%
Centro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc$26,50041%
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc$25,00010%
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank$21,00050%
Project 150$20,00020%
American Cancer Society Inc$17,91940%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$15,0001n/a
Unshakeable$15,00032%
Foundation for the Reading Public Museum$15,00010%
Lgbt Center of Greater Reading$15,00013%
John Paul II Center for Special Learning$14,0004n/a
Jarret Yoder Foundation$12,500117%
Rodale Institute$11,00010%
Greater Reading Economic Partnership$11,00021%
South Mountain YMCA$10,50020%
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation$10,00020%
Alvernia University$10,00010%
Alliance to Fight Human Trafficking in Swla$10,000112%
Clark County Public Education Foundation Inc$10,00020%
Discovery Children's Museum$10,00020%
Concussion Legacy Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Detroit Youth Sports Commission Inc$10,0001n/a
Detroit Youth Golf$10,00012%
Courageous Inc$10,00016%
Tech Impact$10,00020%
Gay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada$10,00020%
Communities in Schools of Nevada Inc$10,00010%
Catalyst Detroit$10,0001n/a
Money Matters 4 Youth$10,00012%
Pennsylvania State University Philanthropic Fund$9,1291n/a
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation$8,50010%
Rebuilding Together Southern Nevada$7,50010%
18th WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION$6,00015%
Pennsylvania Dental Foundation$5,00013%
The Shade Tree Inc$5,00010%
Capability Health & Human Services$5,0001n/a
Historical Society of Berks County$5,00010%
Lend a Hand of Boulder City$5,00012%
The Animal Foundation$5,00010%
Vegas Stronger$5,00010%
Goodwill Industries of Southern Nevada$5,00010%
Albright College$5,00010%
Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada$5,00010%
Equality California Institute$5,00010%
Olivet Boys' & Girls' Club of Reading and Berks County Pa$5,00020%
Goggle Works$4,50020%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$3,78040%
Berks T1d Connection$3,500313%
Laurens Foundation Inc$3,0002n/a
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$2,50010%
Reading Science Center$2,50011%
National Trafficking Sheltered Alliance$2,50011%
Richard J Caron Foundation$2,50010%
West Jefferson Hospital Foundation$2,50011%
Institute for Survivor Care Inc$2,50010%
Headstrong Foundation$2,43410%
Foundation for Reading Area Community College$2,00010%
Berks Encore Inc$2,00010%
Law Foundation of Berks County$1,75011%
New Journey Community Outreachinc$1,50010%
Winning the Race With Diabetes$1,5001n/a
Christ Church Preservation Trust$1,00010%
Foundation for Estonian Arts and Letters Inc$1,0001n/a
Operation Veterans' Hope$1,0001n/a
Easter Seal Society of Western and Central Pennsylvania$1,00010%
Tara Miller Melanoma Foundation$1,00020%
Nevada Blind Children's Foundation$1,00010%
Reading Public Library Foundation$1,00020%
Family Promise of Berks County Inc$1,00020%
Ptsd Foundation of America$1,00010%
The Children's Home of Reading$1,00010%
Hannahs Hope Ministries Inc$1,00010%
Hershey Food Bank and Community Outreach Inc$90040%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$52520%
Friends of Karen Inc$50010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$50010%
Veterans Museum Miami Valley$50010%
Pitties Love Peace$50010%
Cornwall Terrace PTO$5001n/a
Berks County Police Heroes Fund$50012%
Wood to Wonderful Inc$5001n/a
Pennsylvania Regional Ballet$50010%
Fur the Love of Animals Sanctuary & SVCS$450213%
Xaverian Brothers High School$2501n/a
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma$25010%
American Heart Association Inc$22530%
Southern Illinois University Foundation$10010%
Friends of the Scarsdale Library Inc$5010%
Hcsc - Blood Center$2510%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Penn Entertainment Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Berks County Inc: $207,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLatin Americans for Social and Economic Development Inc: $127,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSouthwest Solutions Inc: $125,846 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMotown Historical Musuem Inc: $125,845 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOrchards Children's Services Inc: $104,942 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRobert Irvine Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMary's Shelter: $78,354 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetOpportunity House: $63,768 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBaseballtown Charities: $62,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Midnight Golf Program: $60,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetIm Able Foundation: $53,800 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetPenn State Health: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaney's Legacy of Hope: $33,150 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetHope Rescue Mission of the City of Reading: $32,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSafe Berks: $30,540 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetReading Hospital Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of Reading & Berks County: $28,925 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCentro Hispano Daniel Torres Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHelping Harvest Fresh Food Bank: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject 150: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $17,919 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnshakeable: $15,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFoundation for the Reading Public Museum: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLgbt Center of Greater Reading: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJarret Yoder Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetRodale Institute: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Reading Economic Partnership: $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSouth Mountain YMCA: $10,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlvernia University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance to Fight Human Trafficking in Swla: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetClark County Public Education Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDiscovery Children's Museum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcussion Legacy Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDetroit Youth Golf: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCourageous Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTech Impact: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGay & Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Nevada Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMoney Matters 4 Youth: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Southern Nevada: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget18th WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPennsylvania Dental Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Shade Tree Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Berks County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 94.

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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.

Berks County Community Foundation IncPA69.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · United Way of Berks County Inc · The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Henry Janssen Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank · Blue Mountain Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Mgm Resorts 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 Penn Entertainment Foundation

How much does Penn Entertainment Foundation give?
Penn Entertainment Foundation reported 49 grants totaling $452,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 49 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Penn Entertainment Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (51%), Human Services (8%), Health (8%).
Who are Penn Entertainment Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Berks County Inc ($208k), Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development Inc ($127k), Southwest Solutions Inc ($126k).
Does Penn Entertainment Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Penn Entertainment Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Penn Entertainment Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berks County Community Foundation Inc, The Breidegam Family Foundation, United Way of Berks County Inc.
Where is Penn Entertainment Foundation based?
Penn Entertainment Foundation is based in PA.

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 152 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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