Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,219,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($757,850). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $-337721
What Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation does
Mission
To actively promote physical well-being, encourage teamwork, stress the value of education and provide essential life skills to young people in our community through youth hockey and other activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Little penguins learn to play program - 16,000 pittsburgh area youths are introduced to the game of hockey and provided free sets of hockey equipment. The penguins foundation has teamed with sidney crosby to provide the equipment free to kids ages 4-9.
$1,047,050 spentof which $1,047,050 as grants32% of program spendingThe foundation raises funds and provides grants and other support to local youth sports and other charitable organizations that share the foundation's mission.
$2,168,855 spentof which $1,331,909 as grants65% of program spendingHeads up pittsburgh program - since 2011, the Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation and upmc sports medicine have teamed up to create and expand heads up pittsburgh, which includes baseline concussion testing for young athletes, as well as educational programs for parents. The program has since expanded beyond the sport of hockey, to over 31 additional sports. To date, over 31,000 athletes have been tested.
$61,570 spent2% of program spendingFood drive - the penguins annual food drive began in 1992 and has generated more than 37,000 pounds of food and over $35,000. All proceeds benefit the greater pittsburgh community food bank.
$27,670 spent1% of program spendingPensfit program - designed to introduce children to the sport of hockey and facilitate an increase in physical activity. Provides free street hockey equipment to qualifying elementary schools (both public and private) in allegheny county.
$9,860 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,315,005.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $2.2M (+89%).
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.
25% of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Yvonne Maher
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $150k → $301k.
5 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 36% · 2019 38% · 2020 90% · 2021 57% · 2022 78% · 2023 44% — 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
27% of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
62% of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $851k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.2M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pittsburgh Penguins · partnership
- Lemieux Group LP · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION?
- PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,219,054 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($757,850). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,219,054 in grants to PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $757,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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