· Public charity
Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund
Provide educational opportunity thru educational choice to students from low and middle income families facilitated using scholarships and educational improvement programs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k29 grants · $206k
- $10k–50k200 grants · $4.8M
- $50k–250k138 grants · $17M
- $250k+69 grants · $43M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY | $1,816,280 |
| ST JAMES SCHOOL | $1,459,900 |
| SOUTH HILLS CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $1,415,250 |
| LOGOS ACADEMY | $1,346,840 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $1,283,990 |
| BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,258,383 |
| SEWICKLEY ACADEMY | $1,249,968 |
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $1,183,777 |
| HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH | $1,149,897 |
| GREENSBURG CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $1,080,813 |
| YESHIVA SCHOOLS | $1,059,618 |
| LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $994,250 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $989,100 |
| SHADY SIDE ACADEMY | $956,900 |
| OUR LADY OF SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL | $934,314 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
370 repeat relationships: 315 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSAINT JAMES SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +359% · 25% of their budget
- TNTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY6× · 2018–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +422%
- BGBISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +58% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCENTRAL CHRISTIAN ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $364k · revenue -66%
- TJTHE JAY & LINDA SEDWICK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $157k · revenue -86%
- CACENTRAL ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $100k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Education - private school grades preschool through twelfth
Presbyterian day school strives to glorify god by developing boys in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and men.
To inspire each child's unique potential and desire for life-long learning through a strong academic, social and environmental curriculum.
Christian central academy is an independent, inter-denominational college preparatory christian school for students in kindergarten through grade twelve.
Mckinney christian academy exists to honor jesus christ by teaching students to live biblically through education of mind, body, and spirit.
Christian education provided for preschool through twelfth grade.
Chester charter scholars academy prepare children to employ their intellectual and creative powers to enrich their community.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Ankeny christian academy provides a biblical based education to over 500 children per school year.
The school provides classical christian education to students in grades junior kindergarten through twelve.
To provide christian education to students in grades pre-k to 12.
We will provide a moral and rigorous education, accomplished in a hands-on, technology infused educational environment that will allow our students to attend college, while developing a commitment to global citizenship, environmental…
How this is measured
338 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 338 of the 564 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BISHOP GUILFOYLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SEWICKLEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIGUORI INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds VERITAS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER HARRISBURG INC ↗
- Who funds The City School ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GRAYSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHADY SIDE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH HILLS CATHOLIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VALLEY SCHOOL OF LIGONIER ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PERKIOMEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH PREP ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENN-MONT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOVE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Henkels Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Bruno & Lena Degol Family Found · York County Community Foundation · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · Eqt Foundation · The Maguire Foundation · Powder Mill Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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