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The Pg 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.

$589k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$518kRecreation & Sports$325kCommunity Improvement$272kHuman Services$238kArts & Culture$76kInternational$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$819k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$271,666
HARLEM LACROSSE$75,000
HELEN'S PINK SKY FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF GOLF INC$50,000
SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$40,000
JOHN DYNIEWSKI FOUNDATION$25,000
LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION$16,989
LAS MADRINAS$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S LOS ANGELES$10,000
ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD$10,000
POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$10,000
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND$5,400
AIM FOR MENTAL HEALTH$5,000
THE PAINTED TURTLE$5,000
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $246k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%BOULDER CREST RETREAT: $40k → 7%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $250 → 9%BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%UNITED IN HARMONY: $10k → 14%BOULDER CREST RETREAT: $10k → 7%UNITED IN HARMONY: $10k → 14%BOULDER CREST RETREAT: $10k → 7%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $3k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $25k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $25k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $15k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $10k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%WESTSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%KESEM: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $5k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 21 repeat orgs$553k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
29

Total granted

$1.5M
$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+72%

Still filing today

100%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $359k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • Cornell University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $325k · revenue +46%
  • HL
    HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $155k · revenue +57%
  • NK
    National Kidney Foundation Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • WG
    WOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS SINAI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CC
    CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +198%
  • B
    BABY2BABYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +72%

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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
3
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
4
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
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
9
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
12
La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At la jolla institute for immunology, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease. our discoveries apply to many diseases, ranging from diabetes to heart disease,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hungarian-American Coalition. 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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community FoundationsCancer Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%65%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,927

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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 58 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
38/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION — $926,667 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCornell University — $325,000 · EducationCornell UniversityEpiscopal Academy — $74,500 · Education+7 more — $136,400 · Education+7 moreUCLA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $271,666 · OtherUCLA DEVELOPMENT FOUN…FRIENDS OF GOLF INC — $75,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF GOLF INCHELENS PINK SKY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherHELENS PINK SKY FOUND…WOMEN'S GUILD CEDARS SINAI — $25,000 · OtherTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL — $23,000 · OtherBABY2BABY — $20,000 · OtherLAS MADRINAS — $20,000 · Other+16 more — $80,000 · Other+16 moreNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $140,000 · HealthNational Kidn…SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $115,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S …ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $35,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GR…VISION TO LEARN — $35,000 · HealthVISION TO LEA…+5 more — $32,500 · Health+5 moreAllies for Every Child Inc — $107,500 · Human ServicesAllies fo…BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $85,000 · Human ServicesBOULDER C…UNITED IN HARMONY — $27,500 · Human ServicesUNITED IN…LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION — $16,989 · Human ServicesLOS ANGEL…+5 more — $13,750 · Human Services+5 moreHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $155,000 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LA…JOHN DYNIEWSKI FOUNDATION — $70,000 · Recreation & SportsJOHN DYNI…CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCRYSTAL C…PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,462,567Other$564,666Health$357,500Human Services$250,739Recreation & Sports$250,000Arts & Culture$60,000Philanthropy$15,000

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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $926,667 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $155,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc — $107,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBOULDER CREST FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF GOLF INC — $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEpiscopal Academy — $74,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN DYNIEWSKI FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES — $42,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREADY TO SUCCEED — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY — $27,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JOHN THOMAS DYE SCHOOL — $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBABY2BABY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAS MADRINAS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOM COUGHLIN JAY FUND FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING LAB VENTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBEEBE MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $5,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND TYPE 1 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHonorED Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN CENTER OF PARK CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CONSERVATION CORPS — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Otis Booth Founda…California Community …Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Community Foun…American Endowment Fo…The Rose Hills Founda…Pasadena Community Fo…Weingart FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Otis Booth FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Otis Booth Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · American Endowment Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 The Pg 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Beebe Medical Foundation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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

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How do I get to The Pg Penske Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pg 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 58 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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