Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY
PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,585 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($786,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,726 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,726 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Upmc Pinnacle Hospitalsshared funders
- The Physicians Foundation Incportfolio match
- M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35portfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
0% of PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $172k → $8k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY’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
PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 96% · 2019 96% · 2020 97% · 2021 41% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Upmc Pinnacle Hospitalsshared fundersPA · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- The Physicians Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mason Martha Lockhartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lassin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James & Barbara Summers Family Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Speranza Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No 5portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Copic Medical Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCleary Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Staley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Pennsylvania Medical Society · exempt
- Medical Legacy Fund · exempt
- Pennsylvania Medical Action Committee · exempt
- The Foundation of the Pennsylvania Medical Society · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY?
- PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $899,585 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($786,585). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $899,585 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY?
- UPMC GROUP is the largest funder on record, with $786,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY CHARITABLE TRUST FKA FDN OF THE PA MEDICAL SOCIETY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing