Grants and funding in Pennsylvania
16,789 foundations reported granting into Pennsylvania on their most recent IRS filings: 76,572 itemized grants worth $8.7B between them. On top of that, 23 live grant programs and 52 contract opportunities are specific to Pennsylvania, alongside 3,344 nationwide programs also open here.
- foundations granting into the state
- 16,789
- of 129,981 grantmaking foundations on file
- in itemized grants into the state
- $8.7B
- across 76,572 grants on IRS filings
- live grants specific to Pennsylvania
- 23
- of 3,984 live grants tracked nationwide
- community lenders serving the state
- 67
- of 483 CDFIs on file
What a typical foundation grant runs here
The 16,789 foundations granting into Pennsylvania, grouped by the average size of their grants. The middle of this chart is where most applications belong: funders whose typical check is thousands, not millions.
Who gives the most into Pennsylvania
The five foundations reporting the largest itemized grant dollars into Pennsylvania on their most recent filings. Size and openness are different things: the giants here are mostly endowments that choose their own recipients, which is why the list worth working from is the 16,789 above filtered to funders that accept applications.
What the live Pennsylvania grants offer
Award ceilings on the Pennsylvania-specific programs that publish one, in the same size bands as the foundation chart above.
Who the Pennsylvania-specific grants are for
Of the 23 live grant programs specific to Pennsylvania, here is who the announcements name. 11 more are open to any organization type and counted separately, never twice.
Wherever you sit, nonprofits, cities and towns, tribal organizations and every other reader get their own page saying what Quillify does and does not do for them.
The lenders almost nobody checks
67 community development lenders serve Pennsylvania: below-market debt that takes no ownership, for organizations a bank would make wait. Among them: Community Reinvestment Fund, Inc., NDN Fund, Inc., Community Impact Loan Fund, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, Accion Opportunity Fund. Quillify tracks all 483 nationwide alongside the grants, because the right answer to a funding gap is sometimes a loan you can actually get.
Pennsylvania foundation grants by focus
The foundations above, cut by what they fund and filtered to the ones that accept applications.
- Education grants in Pennsylvania (256 funders)
- Human Services grants in Pennsylvania (242 funders)
- Arts, Culture & Humanities grants in Pennsylvania (198 funders)
- Health Care grants in Pennsylvania (87 funders)
- Philanthropy & Grantmaking grants in Pennsylvania (69 funders)
- Food, Agriculture & Nutrition grants in Pennsylvania (63 funders)
- Religion grants in Pennsylvania (59 funders)
- Environment grants in Pennsylvania (56 funders)
- Youth Development grants in Pennsylvania (50 funders)
- Animal Welfare grants in Pennsylvania (41 funders)
Opportunity figures count live, unexpired programs as of September 1, 2026 and refresh twice monthly. Foundation figures come from IRS filings for tax year 2022 and move as new filings arrive. Segment counts are programs that explicitly name the segment; programs open to any organization type are reported separately, never double-counted.
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