· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k14 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $319k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSBURGH PENGUINS ELITE | $150,000 |
| UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $64,243 |
| UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $54,450 |
| UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| UPMC PRESBYTERIAN-SHADYSIDE | $25,000 |
| THREAD INTERNATIONAL PBC INC DAY OWL | $25,000 |
| AIU3 | $20,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $19,205 |
| PIHL GIRLS' DIVISION FOR SPORTS MATTER GAME SUPPORT OF DSGF | $15,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE - US (HOST OF THE STRONG CITIES NETWORK) | $15,000 |
| PITTSBURGH HARDBALL ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN PA | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $687k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
81 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MLMARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $5.0M · revenue +29% · 30% of their budget
- PPPITTSBURGH PENGUINS ELITE AMATEUR HOCKEY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +63%
- EBENVISION BLIND SPORTS5× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- BCBraddock Carnegie Library Assocone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -56%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +26%- HCHILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -35%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
The pittsburgh promise promotes high educational aspirations among urban youth, funds scholarships for post-secondary access, and fuels a prepared and diverse regional workforce.
Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
The pittsburgh venture capital association was founded in 1982 to catalyze venture investment and entrepreneurialism in western pennsylvania. since then it has become the leading voice of private equity investors in the region.through a…
An employer-led coalition that champions outcomes-based, cost-effective healthcare through education, market expertise, group purchasing, comparative data and decision support.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life center is a member of pittsburgh mercy health system…
How this is measured
153 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 153 of the 177 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARIO LEMIEUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS ELITE AMATEUR HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY STICKS TOGETHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPMC WESTERN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Braddock Carnegie Library Assoc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ENVISION BLIND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AND UPMC MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TIER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Penguins Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COHERENT II-VI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH WARRIORS HOCKEY ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH ICE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHERS KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE PSP STRONG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMOR ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION TROOP APPRECIATION ↗
- Who funds Operation Warm Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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