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Susquehanna Health Foundation

Susquehanna Health Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,850 to it, the largest being GRAHAM L AND B SCH ($399,537). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2020
$1.3M
Funders on record
36
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$13M
25/36 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Susquehanna Health Foundation does

Mission

Susquehanna Health Foundation is a subsidiary of the exempt organization UPMC Susquehanna. SHF is an related exempt organization founded to carry out the charitable missions of its related exempt organizations. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and technological innovation, research, and education.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($6.8M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2019 Revenue 76 ($2.8M) Expenses 22 ($1.5M) Net assets 96 ($12M)2020 Revenue 34 ($1.3M) Expenses 32 ($2.2M) Net assets 104 ($13M)
201720192020
Revenue (34)Expenses (32)Net assets (104)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $15M to $18M (+17%).

$13M
$15M
$18M
201720192020
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

277% of Susquehanna Health Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3.1M
’17
$1.4M
’19
−$916k
’20
24
months of
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.

201720192020
Listed232020
Joined··+3
No longer listed··3
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $15k → $312k.

8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $749k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania). These are real filings, and they are not money Susquehanna Health Foundation raised.

From the IRS filings of Susquehanna Health Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

Susquehanna Health Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

45% 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 Susquehanna Health Foundation.

25%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 43% · 2019 69% · 2020 22% · 2021 26% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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

45% of Susquehanna Health Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

Susquehanna Health Foundation draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states in all.

MI
NY
NV
PA
NJ
MO
MD
NC
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $616k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Susquehanna Health Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 6,764 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−72% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve24.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,764 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2020

Organizations like Susquehanna Health Foundation

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

PA

Part of a family of 180 related entities

  • Upmc Senior Communities Inc · exempt
  • Pittsburgh Lifetime Care Community · exempt
  • Canterbury Place · exempt
  • Seneca Place · exempt
  • Shadyside Hospital Supporting Foundatio · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Susquehanna Health Foundation: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Susquehanna Health Foundation?
Susquehanna Health Foundation (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,593,850 to it, the largest being GRAHAM L AND B SCH ($399,537). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Susquehanna Health Foundation have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $1,593,850 in grants to Susquehanna Health Foundation, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Susquehanna Health Foundation?
GRAHAM L AND B SCH is the largest funder on record, with $399,537 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Susquehanna Health 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 36 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