Pennsylvania · Public charity
Friends Council on Education
The mission of the FRIENDS COUNCIL ON EDUCATION is to provide leadership in drawing friends schools together in unity of spirit and cooperative endeavors. The council's work nurtures the quaker life of schools, strengthens the network of support across schools, promotes friends education through consultations, programs and publications…
- $277k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $154k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,995
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Friends Council on Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $154k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $173k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $191k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $177k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $227k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $145k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $128k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $113k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westtown School | $257,594 | 9 | n/a |
| George School | $190,620 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends Select School | $174,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Wilmington Friends School Inc | $113,822 | 9 | n/a |
| Rational Partners | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends Central School | $95,760 | 8 | n/a |
| Abington Friends School | $94,205 | 8 | 0% |
| Germantown Friends School | $88,684 | 8 | n/a |
| Moorestown Friends School | $57,583 | 7 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $39,620 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westtown School | $257,594 | 9 | n/a |
| George School | $190,620 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends Select School | $174,710 | 8 | 0% |
| Wilmington Friends School Inc | $113,822 | 9 | n/a |
| Rational Partners | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends Central School | $95,760 | 8 | n/a |
| Abington Friends School | $94,205 | 8 | 0% |
| Germantown Friends School | $88,684 | 8 | n/a |
| Moorestown Friends School | $57,583 | 7 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $39,620 | 6 | n/a |
| Newtown Friends School | $30,125 | 4 | n/a |
| United Friends School of the Greater Lehigh Valley Inc | $29,590 | 5 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $28,500 | 4 | n/a |
| William Penn Charter School Inc | $25,907 | 4 | 0% |
| Brooklyn Friends School | $25,190 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends School Corporation | $16,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $13,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Princeton Friends School | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sandy Spring Friends School | $5,840 | 1 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $5,775 | 1 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $5,761 | 1 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends School of Portland | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Richmond Friends School Inc | $5,280 | 1 | 1% |
| Stratford Friends School | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
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: T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Friends Council on Education
- How much does Friends Council on Education give?
- Friends Council on Education reported 12 itemized grants totaling $154,020, out of $276,790 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friends Council on Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Friends Council on Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Westtown School ($258k), George School ($191k), Friends Select School ($175k).
- Does Friends Council on Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friends Council on Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include T Wistar Brown Teacher's Fund, Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools, Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund.
- Where is Friends Council on Education based?
- Friends Council on Education is based in PA.
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