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Pennsylvania State Education Association at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Pennsylvania State Education Association

We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.

$605k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$657kEmployment$581kPublic Benefit$420kCivil Rights$350kSocial Science$327kHuman Services$58kFood & Nutrition$40kArts & Culture$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $398,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $604,706 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $206,706 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $321k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$264M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PDK INTERNATIONAL$210,000
PSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$60,500
CLEAR POINT COMMUNICATIONS$50,000
KEYSTONE RESEARCH CENTER INC$30,000
AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY$20,000
AARON'S ACRES$14,000
PSEA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST$7,500
NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AARON'S ACRES: $14k → 9%Public Citizens for Children & Youth (PCCY): $30k → 22%AARON'S ACRES: $12k → 9%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $10k → 22%AARON'S ACRES: $12k → 9%AARON'S ACRES: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 13 repeat orgs$248k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$2.3M
$228k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+2%

Still filing today

85%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationSocial ScienceArts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PE
    PSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $574k · revenue +62% · 99% of their budget
  • KR
    Keystone Research Center Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $302k · revenue +65%
  • PA
    PA ALLIANCE ACTION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +904%

Funded once

  • WI
    Wolf Inaugural 2019
    one grant, 2019 · $55k
  • SC
    STATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · 36% of their budget
  • PV
    Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +224%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Pennsylvania State Education Association

We support, empower, and advocate for members, students, and public education.

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2
Pennsylvania School Boards Association

Promote excellence in public education and school board governance through leadership, service, and advocacy.

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3
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education Foundation

To support the educational mission and activities of pennsylvania's state system of higher education (state system) by generating private sector financial support and engaging in other activities to advance the state system.

Education
4
Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials

Advance education at all levels by providing its members and the general public with information regarding management, organization, and coordination of school administration.

Education
5
Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children

The Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Childrens mission is to be an effective voice for high-quality early childhood care and education. We do this through policy development, advocacy and professional learning and…

Education
6
Pennsylvania Economy League Inc

The pennsylvania economy league (pel) is an independent non-profit public policy research and development organization comprised of three limited liability companies: pel, southeastern pa, llc, dba economy league of greater philadelphia;…

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7
Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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8
Prince George's County Educators' Association Inc

Pgcea is a teachers union that provides services to prince george's county public school teachers who are members of the association, such as representation and negotiation of the teachers' contract (pay, benefits, etc.).

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9
Pennsylvania Pharmacists Association Education Foundation

The mission of the ppa educational foundation is to invest in the future of pharmacy by fostering research and education and advancing innovative pharmacy practice and patient care.

Education
10
Pta Pennsylvania Congress

Parent Teacher Association

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11
The Philadelphia Education Fund

The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…

Youth Development
12
Planned Parenthood Association of Pa

Provide public education in support of planned parenthood health services, including family planning and abortion care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Education; the most unlike its peers is Psea Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $574,000 · OtherPSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONSHELLY LYONS: $445,000 · OtherSHELLY LYONSPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT: $165,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHTSCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF YORK: $127,782 · OtherSCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF YORKWolf Inaugural 2019: $55,000 · Other+12 more: $190,763 · Other+12 moreKeystone Research Center Inc: $301,725 · Social ScienceKeystone Resea…ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Social SciencePHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC: $315,000 · PhilanthropyPHI DELTA KAPP…PSEA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $82,647 · EducationTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $38,000 · EducationKENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $100,000 · Civil RightsAARON'S ACRES: $48,000 · Human ServicesChildren First PA: $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $39,600 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,557,545Social Science$316,725Philanthropy$315,000Education$130,647Civil Rights$100,000Human Services$88,000Food & Nutrition$39,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $574,000 over 9y, 99% of budgetPHI DELTA KAPPA INTERNATIONAL INC: $315,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKeystone Research Center Inc: $301,725 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT: $165,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetPA ALLIANCE ACTION: $100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPSEA SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $82,647 over 6y, 75% of budgetAARON'S ACRES: $48,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetChildren First PA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA FOOD BANK: $39,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION: $38,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSTATE COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: $27,053 over 1y, 36% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA AFL-CIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES: $23,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF BUCKS COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWreaths Across America: $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pennsylvania State Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania State Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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