Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersMostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →
Plinth

· Public charity

Penn State Health

Penn State Health's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people of pennsylvania, and beyond.

$440k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$72MCommunity Improvement$370kPhilanthropy$255kArts & Culture$185kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$105kHuman Services$78kPublic Benefit$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $264,487 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $440,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $175,940 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION$61,412
FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES$32,000
LANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$26,525
PA CHAMBER BUSINESS & INDUSTRY$26,000
HARRISBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER$19,550
UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY$10,500
UNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY$10,000
FOUNDATION OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY$10,000
SCHREIBER PEDIATRIC REHAB CTR$10,000
THE CARING CUPBOARD INC$10,000
HERSHEY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO$10,000
VICKIES ANGEL FOUNDATION$10,000
DOWNTOWN HERSHEY ASSOCIATION$8,500
KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES$7,500
UNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGN$6,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 11%THE CARING CUPBOARD INC: $10k → 11%YWCA GREATER HARRISBURG: $8k → 12%HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PA: $12k → 12%TRI COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 24 repeat orgs$72M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
22

Total granted

$1.2M
$72M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+1%

Still filing today

92%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • HR
    HARRISBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $114k · revenue +33%
  • CP
    COCOA PACKS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +39%
  • PC
    PENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $72M
  • TP
    THE PENN STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +1% · 82% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Chambersburg Hospital

The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.

Health
2
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
3
Hanover Area Chamber of Commerce

The organization delivers value to its members and advances the interests of the business community.

—
4
Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadephia

The chamber of commerce for greater philadelphia (the chamber) brings area businesses and civic leaders together to promote growth and create opportunity in our region. our members represent eleven counties, three states, and roughly…

—
5
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
6
Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce

To help our members prosper and to enhance the quality of life in the chambersburg area.

—
7
Hunterdon County Chamber of Commerce

Hunterdon chamber of commerce is a business organization consisting of members from the local community. the organization's primary purpose is to promote, assist, and enhance local business in hunterdon county.

—
8
Gettysburg Adams Chamber of Commerce

The gettysburg adams chamber of commerce supports and strengthens our members and the adams county area by promoting diverse economic opportunities through advocacy, building relationships, providing timely information and developing…

—
9
The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania

To advocate for and provide services to pennsylvania's hospitals and health systems to advance high-quality accessible and financially sustainable health care.

—
10
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.

Health
11
Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the shippensburg area chamber of commerce is to provide members with services that promote and support economic vitality as well as develop shippensburg as a great place to live, work, play, visit, and invest.

—
12
Highlands Hospital

Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley and the most unlike its peers is Courtyard of Honor. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPennsylvania Community Orga…Child & Family AdvocacyIndustry Trade AssociationsFamily Philanthropic Founda…Performing and Visual Arts …Youth Development Organizat…Lancaster County FoundationsEmergency Services & Fire P…Veterans Social ClubsRegional Health Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr15%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr15%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
8%
532/6,744

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 49 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
30/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY — $72,080,443 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY+21 more — $661,605 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc — $67,250 · HealthVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC — $60,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $51,500 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $27,500 · HealthSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $17,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $13,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $12,500 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES — $158,250 · Human ServicesTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $11,500 · Human ServicesYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG — $7,800 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION — $112,320 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION — $56,724 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHARRISBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER — $114,338 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN HERSHEY ASSOCIATION — $43,500 · Community ImprovementCUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Community ImprovementCOCOA PACKS INC — $112,500 · Food & NutritionCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $7,500 · Food & NutritionTHE HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $35,250 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $10,500 · Arts & CultureHARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCourtyard of Honor — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$72,742,048Health$258,750Human Services$212,550Philanthropy$209,044Community Improvement$177,838Food & Nutrition$120,000Arts & Culture$83,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES — $158,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHARRISBURG REGIONAL CHAMBER — $114,338 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCOCOA PACKS INC — $112,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE MS HERSHEY FOUNDATION — $112,320 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY — $105,550 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE PENN STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER — $75,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $67,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA CHAMBER OF BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY — $67,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVICKIE'S ANGEL WALK INC — $60,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF DERRY TOWNSHIP PARKS & RECREATION — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHERSHEY VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY — $60,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE CAPITAL REGION — $56,724 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $51,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF CENTRAL PA — $45,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN HERSHEY ASSOCIATION — $43,500 over 6y, 21% of budgetHAMPDEN TOWNSHIP VETERANS RECOGNITION COMMITTEE — $40,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetTHE HERSHEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC — $35,250 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetNEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #544 — $31,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LEBANON COUNTY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARING CUPBOARD INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARRISBURG AREA YMCA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCUMBERLAND AREA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARRISBURG SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHREIBER CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC DEVELOPMENT — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLANCASTER AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRESPECT TOGETHER — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY — $10,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRISBURG COMMUNITY THEATRE THEATRE HARRISBURG — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCourtyard of Honor — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PARTNERSHIP FOR CULTURE HEALTH AND EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE — $8,750 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYWCA GREATER HARRISBURG — $7,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST SHORE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $5,055 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of the Cap…The Foundation for En…Upmc Pinnacle Hospita…John Crain Kunkel Fou…Upmc GroupSchwab-Silfen Foundat…Pennsylvania Automoti…Central Pennsylvania …P a Staples Testament…Joseph T and Helen M …Alexander and Jane Bo…Members 1st Charitabl…
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

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 State Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home
    State money flows
    the interactive map of money crossing state lines