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Wharton Graduate Association

The purpose of the wga is to be an advocate for the student voice and facilitate student endeavors, all under the auspices of improving wharton school.

$184k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$640kArts & Culture$89kHousing & Shelter$69kEducation$40kHealth$24kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$150Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $114,024, the rows itemized in this filing. The $184,281 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,257 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.
$114,024
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PHILA$114,024
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 (FY18–18, $150) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $150 → 7%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 68% of Wharton Graduate Association’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 32%.

Wharton Graduate Associationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$668k · 4 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +53% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$668k
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+99%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    5× · 2019–2025 · $568k · revenue +66%
  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $69k · revenue +137%
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $62k · revenue +53%
  • SI
    SWELLA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MA
    MON AMI INC
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
6
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
7
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy

See schedule owe are an inclusive community on a mission to inspire unbounded curiosity and independent thought in every one of our students. in a unique educational environment that extends well beyond campus, we nurture students'…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
11
Publicolor Inc

Publicolor is an innovative educational youth development organization that empowers students facing immense life challenges for academic and career success through a multi-year project-based continuum of programs. the organization's…

Education
12
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $568,165 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $62,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INCREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $68,504 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADE…SWELLA INC: $50,000 · OtherSWELLA INCMON AMI INC: $20,000 · OtherMON AMI INCPRUUVN INC: $20,000 · OtherPRUUVN INCCYDEPLOY INC: $10,000 · OtherTML COMMUNICATIONS: $10,000 · OtherANCIENT HEALING TEAS: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherDARE TO INNOVATE INC: $10,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $8,500 · Other+2 more: $6,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $17,184 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $11,577 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,535 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMINDING YOUR MIND: $13,700 · HealthSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $500 · Food & NutritionPRATHAM USA: $493 · PhilanthropyJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $150 · Human Services
Youth Development$630,165Other$223,504Education$39,296Health$13,700Food & Nutrition$500Philanthropy$493Human Services$150

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $568,165 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER PHILADELPHIA: $68,504 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $62,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH FOR CHANGE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $17,184 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINDING YOUR MIND: $13,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $11,577 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $9,535 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $8,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNew York University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $493 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH RELIEF AGENCY: $150 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Fidelity Investments …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Wharton Graduate Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wharton Graduate Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 22 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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