Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,505,275 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($11,843,984). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 269
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc does
Mission
The mission of special olympics is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other special olympics athletes, and the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Special olympics pennsylvania (sopa) continues to expand its reach across the commonwealth, delivering year-round sports training, competition, and inclusive programming for individuals with intellectual disabilities. In 2025, sopa provided 30,350 program experiences across 1,109 training sites, engaging 15,167 unique participants in community and school-based programs. These experiences reflect multiple touchpoints across a participant's journey, including sports training, competition, school-based programming, and fitness initiatives, demonstrating both the breadth and depth of sopa's impact. Programming spans both community-based sport opportunities and inclusive school environments, ensuring athletes have consistent engagement pathways regardless of age or entry point.
$6,488,413 spent60% of program spendingSopa also prioritizes leadership development and inclusive community-building. In 2025, 147 athletes served in meaningful regional leadership roles, contributing to volunteer engagement, fundraising, and program advocacy. Additionally, 21 unified youth leadership summits engaged 1,684 participants, and 315 unified champion schools clubs supported ongoing inclusion and leadership development within school communities. Together, these efforts advance sopa's mission by building inclusive communities where individuals with and without intellectual disabilities lead, compete, and grow together.
$1,868,454 spent17% of program spendingSopa remains a leader in advancing the health and wellness of individuals with intellectual disabilities through direct services and structured programming. In 2025, the organization delivered 2,008 healthy athletes screenings and engaged 687 athletes in fitness-focused initiatives. These screenings serve as both immediate interventions and entry points into ongoing fitness and health programming. Fitness programs continue to demonstrate measurable outcomes, including: 19.27% improvement in high-risk bmi rates 27.42% improvement in cardiovascular endurance these improvements reflect sustained engagement in structured fitness programming and reinforce the role of sport as a critical tool for improving long-term health outcomes.
$1,357,992 spent13% of program spendingSopa continued to deliver a robust schedule of competitive opportunities and inclusive sports programming. In 2025, the organization hosted 1,366 competitions across 26 sports, including both traditional special olympics sports and unified sports. This includes 7,240 one-day sports experiences, which provide low-barrier entry points for new athletes and schools while expanding awareness and participation across the state. Participation in school-based unified champion schools (ucs) remains a key driver of growth, with 493 schools engaged and 7,148 ucs athletes participating alongside unified partners. Importantly, sopa is strengthening pathways from school to community engagement, achieving a 12.05% transition rate of ucs participants into community-based program, reinforcing lifelong participation in sport and inclusion.
$1,113,276 spent10% of program spendingVolunteer engagement remains central to sopa's impact. In 2025, 11,888 volunteers supported programming statewide, including 3,243 sport volunteers, 8,344 one-day volunteers, and 301 non-sport volunteers. This diverse and growing volunteer base powers competitions, training, and athlete experiences while also strengthening community awareness and inclusion. Continued improvements in data tracking and engagement strategies allow sopa to better understand and expand its volunteer pipeline. This includes a growing pipeline of youth and school-based participants who transition into ongoing volunteer roles, strengthening long-term sustainability of the movement.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,828,135.
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.
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 $14M to $11M (−20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 31% · 2023 23% · 2024 31% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Matthew B Aaron
President & CEO
Board chair
C Shannon Barry
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 69 funders to 121 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.9M.
31 of 269 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 269 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
86% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 58% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 63% · 2022 61% · 2023 57% — 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
48% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 269 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,505,275 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($11,843,984). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 269 organizations giving $20,505,275 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $11,843,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 269 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing