Top Giving Foundations: PA

Foundations have far-ranging interests. With some research, you’ll find one that's a “fit” for your work.

learn more: foundation funding

They’re prescreened: they have a staff, issue RFPs, or otherwise indicate interest in receiving grant proposals. Some foundations are omitted, even though they award large grants, because they don’t accept unsolicited grant proposals. We list up to forty foundations for each state.

Foundation Name Total Annual Giving
John Templeton Foundation $151,822,648
The Pew Charitable Trusts $118,756,786
The William Penn Foundation $115,486,802
Richard King Mellon Foundation $92,990,972
Hillman Family Foundations $83,135,280
The Heinz Endowments $57,153,700
The PNC Foundation $48,515,504
The Pittsburgh Foundation $43,572,488
Sarah Scaife Foundation $28,698,000
McCune Foundation $26,699,927
The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation $21,664,195
Alcoa Foundation $21,373,323
The Allegheny Foundation $20,818,900
The Philadelphia Foundation $19,462,332
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation, Inc. $17,731,625
The Erie Community Foundation $17,386,856
The Luzerne Foundation $15,661,514
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation $13,725,600
The E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation $13,122,463
Connelly Foundation $11,058,047
The Wawa Foundation Inc. $10,666,699
Grable Foundation $10,387,899
The Lancaster County Community Foundation $10,116,616
Eden Hall Foundation $9,584,230
Lenfest Foundation $9,554,840
Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust $8,324,500
Oberkotter Foundation $8,256,305
The Hillman Foundation, Inc. $7,876,500
The Rite Aid Foundation $7,795,839
W.W. Smith Charitable Trust $7,406,560
John R. McCune Charitable Trust $7,279,000
The Sidney Kimmel Foundation $7,255,985
CIGNA Foundation $6,182,200
EQT Foundation $6,130,131
English-Bonter-Mitchell Foundation $5,953,000
Harry C. Trexler Trust $5,899,250
The Air Products Foundation $5,874,321
The Graham Foundation $5,685,850
DSF Charitable Foundation $5,656,700
PPG Industries Foundation $5,508,311