Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,928,781 to it, the largest being THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ($1,162,273). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge #224portfolio match
- Henry & Louise Parker Scholarship Trustportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $280k → $1.4M.
17 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARCADIA UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
61% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARCADIA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 11% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 64% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
55% of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 112 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 74 organizations that share your funders
- Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge #224portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry & Louise Parker Scholarship Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gould Norman & Anna Schol Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Study Abroad Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dillon Henry Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angels Wings Foundation International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- King Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Posse Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Everett & Doris Bernardo Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Al & Ib Thomas Ed'L Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ARCADIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.6M on record — $20.3M federal, $334k state.
- Department of Education$15.3M
- National Science Foundation$3.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- Department of Justice$600k
- NJ$329k
- DE$5k
- FL$834
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARCADIA UNIVERSITY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCADIA UNIVERSITY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY?
- ARCADIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,928,781 to it, the largest being THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ($1,162,273). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARCADIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $7,928,781 in grants to ARCADIA UNIVERSITY, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCADIA UNIVERSITY?
- THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $1,162,273 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCADIA UNIVERSITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 112funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing