· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $35,995 |
| FRIENDS CENTRAL SCHOOL | $17,325 |
| FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL | $17,210 |
| WILMINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| ABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $12,600 |
| GEORGE SCHOOL | $11,025 |
| FRIENDS SCHOOL MULLICA HILL | $9,450 |
| NEWTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $7,875 |
| BUCKINGHAM FRIENDS SCHOOL | $6,300 |
| SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,840 |
| STRATFORD FRIENDS SCHOOL | $5,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +13% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFABINGTON FRIENDS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +35%
- WPWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +13%
- FSFRIENDS SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2024–2025 · $17k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BFBROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $25k
- PFPRINCETON FRIENDS SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -1%
- PYPHILADELPHIA YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDSone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 25 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
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Friends Council on Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends Council on Education. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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