· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM | $60,000 |
| LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | $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 |
| DETROIT YOUTH GOLF | $10,000 |
| ARAB AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE TO FIGHT HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN SWLA | $10,000 |
| CATALYST DETROIT | $10,000 |
| ALVERNIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DETROIT YOUTH SPORTS COMMISION INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Penn Entertainment Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 64% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC5× · 2018–2024 · $208k · revenue +37%
- LALATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $127k · revenue +4%
SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC2× · 2019–2021 · $126k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1.5M
- EOEMPLOYEES OF PENN NATIONAL GAMING Ione grant, 2020 · $1.3M
- LALesbian and Gay Community Services Center Incone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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,…
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…
Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICANS FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC ↗
- Who funds BING YOUTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MY SISTAHS PINK JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds ORCHARDS CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ROBERT IRVINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BASEBALLTOWN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds IM ABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health ↗
- Who funds LANEY'S LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE RESCUE MISSION OF THE CITY OF READING ↗
- Who funds SAFE BERKS ↗
- Who funds READING HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF READING & BERKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRO HISPANO DANIEL TORRES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HARVEST FRESH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 150 ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE READING PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER OF GREATER READING ↗
- Who funds BERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNSHAKEABLE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Penn Entertainment Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.