How much does Penn State Health give?

Penn State Health reported 16 itemized grants totaling $264,487, out of $440,427 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Penn State Health fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (98%), Community Improvement (1%), Philanthropy (0%).

Who are Penn State Health's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pennsylvania State University ($72M), Harrisburg Regional Chamber ($114k), Cocoa Packs Inc ($113k).

Does Penn State Health fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Penn State Health?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Capital Region, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals.

Where is Penn State Health based?

Penn State Health is based in PA.

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Penn State Health

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$440k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 16
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 15%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $264k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $61,412
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 23; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.9B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Penn State Health funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	15	$232k	13%
FY2024	20	$72M	15%
FY2023	17	$232k	35%
FY2022	23	$324k	57%
FY2021	13	$172k	31%
FY2020	20	$358k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$72MCommunity Improvement$370kPhilanthropy$255kArts & Culture$185kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$105kHuman Services$78kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pennsylvania State University	$72,080,443	1	n/a
Harrisburg Regional Chamber	$114,338	6	2%
Cocoa Packs Inc	$112,500	3	2%
The Ms Hershey Foundation	$112,320	4	0%
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry	$105,550	4	1%
The Penn State Alumni Association Philadelphia Chapter	$75,000	1	82%
American Heart Association Inc	$67,250	1	0%
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry	$67,000	4	0%
Friends of Derry Township Parks & Recreation	$60,000	2	18%
Vickie's Angel Walk Inc	$60,000	5	3%

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All grantees of Penn State Health by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pennsylvania State University	$72,080,443	1	n/a
Harrisburg Regional Chamber	$114,338	6	2%
Cocoa Packs Inc	$112,500	3	2%
The Ms Hershey Foundation	$112,320	4	0%
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry	$105,550	4	1%
The Penn State Alumni Association Philadelphia Chapter	$75,000	1	82%
American Heart Association Inc	$67,250	1	0%
Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry	$67,000	4	0%
Friends of Derry Township Parks & Recreation	$60,000	2	18%
Vickie's Angel Walk Inc	$60,000	5	3%
Hershey Volunteer Fire Company	$60,000	6	2%
United Way of the Capital Region	$56,724	6	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$51,500	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pa	$45,500	4	1%
Downtown Hershey Association	$43,500	6	21%
Hampden Township Veterans Recognition Committee	$40,000	3	56%
The Hershey Symphony Orchestra Society Inc	$35,250	4	5%
Township of Derry	$35,000	2	n/a
New Birth of Freedom Council Boy Scouts of America #544	$31,250	3	0%
United Way of Lebanon County Inc	$30,000	3	1%
The Caring Cupboard Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Keystone Human Services	$27,500	4	0%
Lebanon Valley College	$20,000	2	0%
Harrisburg Area YMCA	$20,000	2	0%
Cumberland Area Economic Development Corporation	$20,000	2	0%
Harrisburg Symphony Association Inc	$17,500	1	0%
Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development	$17,000	2	0%
The Pennsylvania Dutch Council Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Lancaster Area Chamber of Commerce Inc	$15,000	1	12%
Breakthrough T1d	$13,000	2	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley	$12,500	1	0%
NAACP Lancaster Branch	$12,500	1	n/a
Respect Together	$12,500	2	0%
Hospice of Central Pennsylvania	$11,500	1	0%
United Way of Lancaster County	$10,500	1	0%
Harrisburg Community Theatre Theatre Harrisburg	$10,000	1	3%
The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society	$10,000	1	n/a
Courtyard of Honor	$10,000	1	5%
Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair	$10,000	1	16%
Pennsylvania Partnership for Culture Health and Education Inc	$10,000	1	10%
Trojan Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Beacon Clinic for Health and Hope	$8,750	1	2%
YWCA Greater Harrisburg	$7,800	1	0%
Township of Derry Industrial and Commercial	$7,500	1	n/a
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank	$7,500	1	0%
Joy of Sports Foundation	$6,000	1	n/a
West Shore Chamber of Commerce	$5,055	1	1%
Community Action Commission	$5,000	1	0%

Penn State Health supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 41.

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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.

United Way of the Capital RegionPA42.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Capital Region · The Foundation for Enhancing Communities · Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals · John Crain Kunkel Foundation · Upmc Group · Schwab-Silfen Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · P a Staples Testamentary Trust · Joseph T and Helen M Simpson Foundation · Alexander and Jane Boyd Ta Foundation · Members 1st Charitable 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 State Health

How much does Penn State Health give?: Penn State Health reported 16 itemized grants totaling $264,487, out of $440,427 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Penn State Health fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (98%), Community Improvement (1%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are Penn State Health's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pennsylvania State University ($72M), Harrisburg Regional Chamber ($114k), Cocoa Packs Inc ($113k).
Does Penn State Health fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Penn State Health?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of the Capital Region, The Foundation for Enhancing Communities, Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals.
Where is Penn State Health based?: Penn State Health is based in PA.