Pennsylvania · Public charity
Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation
To actively promote physical well-being, encourage teamwork, stress the value of education and provide essential life skills to young people in our community through youth hockey and other activities.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $588k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 94
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $563k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $682k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.7M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.2M | 71% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.5M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $1.8M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 72 | $1.9M | 38% |
| FY2017 | 94 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mario Lemieux Foundation | $4,966,232 | 6 | 30% |
| Pittsburgh Penguins Elite Amateur Hockey | $1,332,072 | 7 | 11% |
| Hockey Sticks Together Foundation | $457,000 | 4 | 58% |
| Upmc Western Behavioral Health Foundation | $213,693 | 1 | n/a |
| Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Civic Light Opera Association of Greater Pittsburgh | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hill Community Development Corporation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Allegheny Intermediate Unit | $99,523 | 3 | n/a |
| Envision Blind Sports | $95,000 | 5 | 10% |
Show all 173 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Upmc Group · Hillman Family Foundations · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation
How this is measured
About Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation
- How much does Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation give?
- Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $587,810, out of $2,845,362 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 94 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (53%), Recreation & Sports (21%), Education (7%).
- Who are Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mario Lemieux Foundation ($5.0M), Pittsburgh Penguins Elite Amateur Hockey ($1.3M), Hockey Sticks Together Foundation ($457k).
- Does Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Upmc Group.
- Where is Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation based?
- Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation is based in PA.
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