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Richard and Patricia Penske Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard and Patricia Penske Foundation

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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$52kEducation$11kRecreation & Sports$500Health$450Public Safety & Disaster$100Food & Nutrition$100Civil Rights$60Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$52k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY$6,250
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 3 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$53k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +100%
  • MA
    MORAVIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +64%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $350 · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HILLSIDE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +20%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +37%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
3
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
4
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
5
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
6
Hathaway Brown School

The school is dedicated to excellence in the education of girls. our true mission, as reflected in our motto "non scholae sed vitae discimus," is learning & preparation for life.

Education
7
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
8
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
9
The Academy of the New Church

The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
12
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is J Wood Platt Caddie Scholarship Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $48,770 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEYTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOLMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $4,000 · OtherMORAVIAN ACADEMYUNITED WAY: $3,000 · OtherUNITED WAY+4 more: $510 · OtherTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $500 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Heart Association Inc: $350 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 · HealthDESALES UNIVERSITY: $250 · EducationST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 · Human Services
Philanthropy$48,770Other$13,510Recreation & Sports$500Health$450Education$375Human Services$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY: $48,770 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMORAVIAN ACADEMY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDESALES UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Salvaggio Family Foun…United Way of the Gre…Vanguard Charitable E…The Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Salvaggio Family FoundationPA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salvaggio Family Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard and Patricia Penske Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard and Patricia Penske Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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