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Forty dollars a seat. More than $1 million later.
That’s the math behind Live! Casino Pittsburgh’s Charitable Community Bingo program, which has now sent more than $1 million to nonprofit organizations across Westmoreland County since it launched in June 2024.
The casino, Mega Money Bingo, and a group of nonprofit representatives will gather Thursday at The Venue Live! to mark the milestone.
The event is set for 11 a.m. on the casino’s second level at the Westmoreland Mall location in Greensburg. Executives from The Cordish Companies and Live! Casino Pittsburgh will join Mega Money Bingo officials and past donation recipients for the celebration.
How the bingo nights built to seven figures
The program runs weekly, with games at The Venue Live! and tickets priced at $40 per person. It has drawn more than 12,000 players since it started, according to figures the casino released last year. It crossed its first big number in July 2025, when the total reached more than $430,000.
Getting from there to $1 million in about 14 months means the pace has actually picked up. Roughly $570,000 more has moved to nonprofits in the time since that first milestone, well above the rate that got the program to $430,000 in its first 13 months. More players, more sessions, or both. The casino hasn’t broken out which.
Sean Sullivan, Live!’s general manager, described the program last year as part of a broader push by its parent company:
“It’s another chapter in our effort to fulfill The Cordish Companies’ vision of strengthening our communities.”
Michael Sarsfield, who organizes Mega Money Bingo, called the effort a major presence in the area. He said it was “having a tremendous impact in Westmoreland County.”
Dozens of local groups have benefitted
The list of beneficiaries has run long. Past recipients include Mutual Aid EMS, CASA of Westmoreland, Westmoreland Toys for Tots, Habitat for Humanity, the American Cancer Society, and Educated Athletes First, among dozens of others. Lisa Kennedy, who works in program development for Mutual Aid EMS, said the funding lets her organization keep doing lifesaving work across dozens of communities in the county.
Thursday’s event will name this round of recipients on stage rather than in a release, so the specific breakdown of the newest $570,000 isn’t public yet.
What is public: a weekly card game inside a mall casino has quietly become one of the bigger local philanthropic engines in Westmoreland County.
Forty dollars at a time.
