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Penske Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Health$13MArts & Culture$6.9MEducation$5.0MPhilanthropy$3.1MPublic Benefit$3.0MHuman Services$655kYouth Development$610kRecreation & Sports$295kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+12 grants · $9.5M
$125,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$219M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAKLAND COUNTY$2,000,000
HENRY FORD HEALTH$2,000,000
CULVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,015,000
THE HENRY FORD FOUNDATION$1,000,000
STEADFAST LA FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MAYO CLINIC$1,000,000
CANCER VACCINE COALITION$250,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN$250,000
THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN$250,000
NXG YOUTH MOTORSPORTS$250,000
GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FRIEDKIN DISASTER RELIEF FUND$250,000
MICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER$200,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC$150,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$125,000
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 (FY17–25, $355k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY FIRST: $45k → 13%BIRTHSTONE CORPORATION: $250k → 11%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%CHILDSAFE MICHIGAN: $10k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 18 repeat orgs$9.9M 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 +10% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
12

Total granted

$16M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HF
    HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +18%
  • THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $3.5M · revenue +46%
  • RB
    RYAN BLANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $235k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CF
    CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • BC
    BIRTHSTONE CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -57% · 72% of their budget

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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Navy Seal Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ryan Blaney Family Foundation. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Veteran Support ServicesPublic University Foundatio…Cancer Support OrganizationsYouth Development CentersDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Community Health CentersIndependent K-8 SchoolsClassical Music EnsemblesChild and Family ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Land Conservation Organizat…Education Equity LeadershipCommunity Arts Organizations
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 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr16%51%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr16%83%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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

36 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. 36 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
21/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC — $6,400,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $4,000,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $1,500,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA+3 more — $500,000 · HealthINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 · OtherINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDA…OAKLAND COUNTY — $2,000,000 · OtherOAKLAND COUNTYCHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONTHE HENRY FORD FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherTHE HENRY FORD FOUNDATIONSTEADFAST LA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · OtherSTEADFAST LA FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MICHIGAN — $750,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MICHIGANNANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL — $400,000 · Other+14 more — $1,553,333 · Other+14 moreHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $1,300,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASS…Culver Educational Foundation — $1,015,000 · EducationCulver Educationa…UCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…EL EDUCATION INC — $230,000 · EducationMICHIGAN SCIENCE CENTER — $200,000 · Education+4 more — $325,000 · Education+4 moreTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $3,500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT IN…NANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC — $435,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET DREA…NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $250,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MEDAL…+3 more — $190,000 · Arts & CultureRYAN BLANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $235,000 · PhilanthropyTECHFORCE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyEASY DAY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN — $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARK DONOHUE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIRTHSTONE CORPORATION — $250,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN — $60,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FIRST INC — $45,000 · Human Services
Health$12,400,000Other$10,203,333Education$5,070,000Arts & Culture$4,375,000Philanthropy$485,000Youth Development$360,000Human Services$355,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC — $6,400,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM — $4,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $3,500,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC — $1,300,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation — $1,015,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC — $435,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCANCER VACCINE COALITION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetBIRTHSTONE CORPORATION — $250,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetRYAN BLANEY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $235,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC — $230,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $165,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTECHFORCE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK DONOHUE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN — $60,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY DETROIT — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FIRST INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDetroit Historical Society — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

Ford PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation …Dte Energy FoundationThe Kresge FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationRaymond James Charita…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…
Ford PhilanthropyMI17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ford Philanthropy · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Penske Foundation Inc 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 · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Penske Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Penske Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 51 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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