Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY
MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,990 to it, the largest being HOCKEY STICKS TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($136,440). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $506k
- Net assets
- $29k
What Mighty Penguins Sled Hockey does
Mission
The organization operates therapeutic and competitive ice hockey programs for the benefit of disabled individuals in pennsylvania and adjacent areas to develop character, sportsmanship, and physical fitness among disabled youth and adults to promote and improve the standard of sled hockey. Also to conduct a sled hockey program consistent with the rules and regulations of usa hockey, inc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ice rental expense - money paid to ice rink facilities to provide playing surface for persons with physical disabilities.
$43,190 spent28% of program spendingTravel expenses, equipment and tournament fees - money paid to provide travel, accomodations and tournament fees for participants
$111,747 spent72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $154,937.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $81k to $46k (−43%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
60% of MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Melissa Everly
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $52k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 61% · 2019 47% · 2020 82% · 2021 35% · 2022 41% · 2023 38% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY?
- MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,990 to it, the largest being HOCKEY STICKS TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($136,440). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $505,990 in grants to MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY?
- HOCKEY STICKS TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $136,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIGHTY PENGUINS SLED HOCKEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 14 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing