Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals
Harrisburg, PA · EIN 25-1778644. Reported 112 grants totalling $3,249,007 to 69 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E220) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 69 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $14,750. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $29,600; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $531,754. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upmc | Pittsburgh, PA | $531,754 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Patients R Waiting Inc | Lititz, PA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Veterans Outreach of Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $203,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Foundation for the Central Dauphin Schools | Harrisburg, PA | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Paxton Street Home Benevolent Society Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $135,544 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Peyton Walker Foundation | Camp Hill, PA | $130,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Cancer Society Inc | Atlanta, GA | $126,180 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Capital Area Girls on the Run | Enola, PA | $101,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts | Harrisburg, PA | $100,150 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Downtown Improvement District Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA Charter School Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Harrisburg Area Community College | Harrisburg, PA | $76,176 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Pennsylvania College Education Foundation | Enola, PA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vickies Angel Walk Inc | New Cumberlnd, PA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development | Lancaster, PA | $54,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Symphony Association | Harrisburg, PA | $53,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Home for the Friendless | Harrisburg, PA | $51,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Susquehanna Art Museum | Harrisburg, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harrisburg School District | Harrisburg, PA | $49,550 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of Harrisburg | Harrisburg, PA | $48,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Dauphin County CASA | Harrisburg, PA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Downtown Daily Bread | Harrisburg, PA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Penn State University | Erie, PA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harrisburg Regional Chamber | Harrisburg, PA | $32,653 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bridgetower Opco LLC | Atlanta, GA | $30,210 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Central Penn College | Summerdale, PA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Family Service of Greater Harrisburg Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Zero Prostate Cancer | Alexandria, VA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harrisburg Area YMCA | Harrisburg, PA | $28,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Foundation for Enhancing Communities | Harrisburg, PA | $26,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nursing Foundation of Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $25,900 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hershey Dtc | York, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Hershey Symphony Orchestra Society | Hershey, PA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hospice of Central Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $24,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $24,250 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs | Newport, PA | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dauphin County Economic Development Corporation | Harrisburg, PA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| On-Line Publishers Inc | Lancaster, PA | $22,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of the Capital Region | Enola, PA | $21,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| York Fresh Food Farms | York, PA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pink Power | York, PA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dauphin County Community Fund | Harrisburg, PA | $19,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YWCA Greater Harrisburg | Harrisburg, PA | $18,490 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| West Shore Chamber of Commerce | Camp Hill, PA | $17,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Hershey-Derry Township Historial Society | Hershey, PA | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Pennsylvania Partnership for Culture Health and Education Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $14,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | Harrisburg, PA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $11,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Township of Derry Industrial and Commercial | Hershey, PA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harrisburg Young Professionals | Harrisburg, PA | $10,025 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | Rye Brook, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Harrisburg Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania | Camp Hill, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Leadership Carlisle | Camp Hill, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Luthercare | Lititz, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pennon Organization | Harrisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hampden Township | Mechanicsburg, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Downtown Camp Hill Association | Camp Hill, PA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Advance Local Holdings Corp | New York, NY | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic | Essington, PA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania | Harrisburg, PA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cal Ripken SR Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Penn Business Group on Health | Lancaster, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hamilton Health Center Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vista Foundation | Hershey, PA | $5,960 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Assembly of God Church of Newport Pennsylvania | Newport, PA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania | Bala Cynwyd, PA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brighton Communications LLC | Carlisle, PA | $5,265 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 69 (49%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Harrisburg Downtown Improvement District
JOSHUA GROUP SUMMER PROGRAM - City of Harrisburg
THE COMMUNITY CHECK-UP CENTER: HEALTH CARE WITHIN OUR BOARDERS - Hershey Symphony Orchestra
VICKIE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION: VAF HARVEST SWEETHEART DANCE - Hospice of Central Pa
DAUPHIN COUNTY CASA: SUPERHERO 5K/FAMILY FUN RUN - Pink Power
BRETHREN HOUSING ASSOCIATION: ANNUAL CELEBRATION - Harrisburg Area YMCA
VISION RESOURCES: 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 48 of 69 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 | $73,500 | $20,500 |
| 2021 | 23 | $420,700 | $12,000 |
| 2022 | 49 | $1,093,452 | $14,500 |
| 2023 | 36 | $1,661,355 | $20,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
93% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 5 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 8700, Harrisburg, PA, 17105.
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