Arkansas · Private foundation
Penner Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $17M
- Granted FY2019
- 52
- Grants FY2019
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2019
- 57%
- First-time grantees FY2019
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Penner Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 59 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Penner Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 48 organizations, $17M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2019
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2019
- $3,598,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2019
- States reached, FY2019
- 9
- Total assets, FY2019
- $97M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2019, 57% of the organizations Penner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2019 | 49 | $14M | 57% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $8.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kipp Foundation | $10,775,200 | 5 | 6% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $10,506,100 | 7 | 2% |
| Georgetown University | $8,315,000 | 7 | 0% |
| USA Water Polo Inc | $5,350,000 | 7 | 21% |
| Fuller Theological Seminary | $5,060,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Teach for All Inc | $4,500,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Redf | $3,700,000 | 6 | 9% |
| The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education | $2,500,000 | 7 | 5% |
| St Paul's School | $2,016,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $1,600,000 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Penner Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · The Roberts Foundation · The Rob Walton Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Penner Family Foundation
- How much does Penner Family Foundation give?
- Penner Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $16,656,600 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
- What does Penner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (74%), Social Science (8%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Penner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Kipp Foundation ($11M), The Aspen Institute Inc ($11M), Georgetown University ($8.3M).
- Does Penner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2019, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Penner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Penner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Penner Family Foundation based?
- Penner Family Foundation is based in AR.
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