Pennsylvania · Public charity
Pennsylvania State Education Association
We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.
- $605k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $398k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $210,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $264M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Pennsylvania State Education Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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 | 8 | $398k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $342k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $293k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $245k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $160k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $378k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $243k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $256k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psea Education Foundation | $574,000 | 9 | 99% |
| Shelly Lyons | $445,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Phi Delta Kappa International Inc | $315,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Keystone Research Center Inc | $301,725 | 9 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania Spotlight | $165,000 | 4 | 28% |
| School District of the City of York | $127,782 | 3 | n/a |
| Pa Alliance Action | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Psea Scholarship Trust | $82,647 | 6 | 75% |
| Wolf Inaugural 2019 | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aaron's Acres | $48,000 | 4 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psea Education Foundation | $574,000 | 9 | 99% |
| Shelly Lyons | $445,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Phi Delta Kappa International Inc | $315,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Keystone Research Center Inc | $301,725 | 9 | 4% |
| Pennsylvania Spotlight | $165,000 | 4 | 28% |
| School District of the City of York | $127,782 | 3 | n/a |
| Pa Alliance Action | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Psea Scholarship Trust | $82,647 | 6 | 75% |
| Wolf Inaugural 2019 | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aaron's Acres | $48,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Children First PA | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Central Pennsylvania Food Bank | $39,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education | $38,000 | 4 | 0% |
| State College and University Professional Association | $27,053 | 1 | 36% |
| Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Pennsylvania Afl-Cio | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Education Association of the United States | $23,250 | 3 | 0% |
| African American Museum of Bucks County | $20,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Camp Discovery | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Economic Policy Institute | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Pennsylvania Council on Economic Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kennett Education Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Cornell School District | $9,476 | 1 | n/a |
| Science Explorers | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Bellefonte Education Association | $7,134 | 1 | n/a |
| Wreaths Across America | $5,100 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Pennsylvania State Education Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Pennsylvania State Education Association
- How much does Pennsylvania State Education Association give?
- Pennsylvania State Education Association reported 8 itemized grants totaling $398,000, out of $604,706 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pennsylvania State Education Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Employment (23%), Public Benefit (16%).
- Who are Pennsylvania State Education Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Psea Education Foundation ($574k), Shelly Lyons ($445k), Phi Delta Kappa International Inc ($315k).
- Does Pennsylvania State Education Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania State Education Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Pennsylvania State Education Association based?
- Pennsylvania State Education Association is based in PA.
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