Nevada · Private foundation
William N Pennington Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $36M
- Granted FY2022
- 63
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $32M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $5,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 51
- FY2021 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 3
- Total assets, FY2022
- $482M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 67% of the organizations William N Pennington Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 80% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 51 | $32M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $28M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Renown Health Foundation | $12,500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeastern Nevada | $4,455,512 | 2 | 29% |
| Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation | $3,094,300 | 2 | 82% |
| Great Basin College Foundation | $2,400,000 | 1 | 89% |
| Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education | $2,365,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nevada Health Centers Inc | $1,500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Care Chest of Sierra Nevada | $1,049,570 | 2 | 26% |
| University of Nevada Reno Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Western Nevada College Foundation | $865,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Elko Senior Citizens Center Inc | $557,741 | 1 | 80% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William N Pennington Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 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.
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How this is measured
About William N Pennington Foundation
- How much does William N Pennington Foundation give?
- William N Pennington Foundation reported 63 itemized grants totaling $31,696,780, out of $36,329,555 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 51 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
- What does William N Pennington Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Health (12%), Education (7%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are William N Pennington Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Renown Health Foundation ($13M), Boys and Girls Clubs of Northeastern Nevada ($4.5M), Truckee Meadows Community College Foundation ($3.1M).
- Does William N Pennington Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William N Pennington Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William N Pennington Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The E L Cord Foundation, NV Energy Charitable Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Nevada.
- Where is William N Pennington Foundation based?
- William N Pennington Foundation is based in NV.
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