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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.

$452k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT$60,000
MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM$60,000
UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY$50,000
TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM$15,000
READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$15,000
MARY'S SHELTER$14,250
RODALE INSTITUTE$11,000
IM ABLE FOUNDATION$10,300
ARAB AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEAGUE$10,000
ALLIANCE TO FIGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN SWLA$10,000
COURAGEOUS INC$10,000
DETROIT YOUTH SPORTS COMMISION INC$10,000
CATALYST DETROIT$10,000
ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $494k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MOM-N-PA: $5k → 8%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $6k → 9%EASTER SEALS WESTERN & CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 11%LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $100k → 17%ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%EASTER SEALS NEVADA: $5k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEVADA INC: $10k → 13%THE SAMARITAN WOMEN INC: $3k → 19%SOUTH MOUNTAIN YMCA: $5k → 9%ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%ORCHARD'S CHILDREN SERVICES: $58k → 8%ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ORCHARDS CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $47k → 8%HERSHEY FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $250 → 12%HERSHEY FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $250 → 12%HERSHEY FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $250 → 12%HERSHEY FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $150 → 12%PROJECT 150: $10k → 13%PROJECT 150: $10k → 13%NEVADA BLIND CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOURTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF SOURTHERN NEVADA: $5k → 13%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $10k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $9k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $5k → 11%CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $3k → 11%BERKS ENCORE: $2k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF READING: $1k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $11k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $16k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $14k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $14k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $13k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $6k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $5k → 11%SAFE BERKS: $5k → 11%MARY'S SHELTER: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Penn Entertainment Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 64%.

Penn Entertainment Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 48 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

48 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
72

Total granted

$1.7M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +37%
  • LA
    LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $127k · revenue +4%
  • SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $126k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • EO
    EMPLOYEES OF PENN NATIONAL GAMING I
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M
  • LA
    Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
2
Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…

Health
3
Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute

Ppi is operated solely by penn state health and is dedicated to providing exceptional clinical care, advancing diverse educational opportunities for the next generation of behavioral health specialists, fostering impactful research, and…

Health
4
Wayne Memorial Hospital

It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.

Health
5
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
6
Reading Berks Association of Realtors Inc

The reading berks association of realtors promotes a high standard of professionalism, advocates for private property rights, and strives to improve the quality of life in our communities.

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7
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
8
The Milton S Hershey Medical Center

Mshmc's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care, educate and trains healthcare…

Health
9
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
10
Pennsylvania Medical Society

The pennsylvania medical society is the voice of pennsylvania's physicians and the patients they serve. we advance quality patient care and the ethical practice of medicine. we promote physician leadership, education, professional…

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11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is My Sistahs Pink Journey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 152 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/103
Grantees still filing
63/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,528,065 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEMPLOYEES OF PENN NATIONAL GAMING I: $1,257,352 · OtherEMPLOYEES OF PENN NATIONAL GAMING ILATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $127,000 · Other+80 more: $896,067 · Other+80 moreORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $104,942 · Human ServicesORCHARDS CH…Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesLesbian and…ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesROBERT IRVI…MARY'S SHELTER: $78,354 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHEL…SAFE BERKS: $30,540 · Human ServicesSAFE BERKSYMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY: $28,925 · Human ServicesYMCA OF REA…CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC: $26,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT 150: $20,000 · Human Services+12 more: $48,925 · Human Services+12 moreUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $207,500 · PhilanthropyBASEBALLTOWN CHARITIES: $62,500 · PhilanthropyIM ABLE FOUNDATION: $53,800 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMY SISTAHS PINK JOURNEY: $113,565 · HealthPenn State Health: $50,000 · HealthLANEY'S LEGACY OF HOPE: $33,150 · HealthREADING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $17,919 · HealthGrant A Gift Autism Foundation: $10,000 · HealthCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+14 more: $28,739 · HealthMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $125,845 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & Culture18th WONDER IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $14,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · EducationTECH IMPACT: $10,000 · EducationMoney Matters 4 Youth: $10,000 · EducationVEGAS STRONGER: $5,000 · EducationALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $2,150 · EducationTHE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT YOUTH GOLF: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOURAGEOUS INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentOLIVET BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF READING AND BERKS COUNTY PA: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$3,808,484Human Services$523,186Philanthropy$364,800Health$293,373Arts & Culture$170,845Education$132,150Youth Development$85,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budget
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.

Berks County Communit…The Breidegam Family …United Way of Berks C…The Wyomissing Founda…Henry Janssen Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Helping Harvest Fresh…Blue Mountain Foundat…Firstenergy FoundationNevada Community Foun…NV Energy Charitable …Mgm Resorts Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Penn Entertainment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Penn Entertainment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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