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ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania does
Mission
The purpose of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (aicup) is to serve and promote independent colleges and universities as vital, distinctive components of the higher education community in pennsylvania and the nation, to preserve and promote the strengths and distinctive characteristics of non-proit higher education institutions and to increase the financial means available to these institutions, to further the availability of education opportunity for residents of pennsylvania and others who seek education or training at independent colleges and universities in pennsylvania, to enhance the business and educational partnership in pa and increase the effectiveness of donations in advancing higher education, to encourage and solicit corporate, business, and other giving to the independent colleges and universities in pennsylvania, to further by study, research, publication, and teaching an understanding of the role and needs of higher education, to
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Distributed voluntary contributions received from member colleges, the general public, foundations and corporations for various programs of the association.
$295,100 spentof which $295,100 as grants17% of program spendingThe association served as a unified voice for independent higher education in pennsylvania before state and federal elected officials and government agencies. Issues addressed by the association included input into public policies with regard to student financial aid programs, funding for institutional needs, preservation of state and local tax exemptions for colleges and universities and several other issues which impact independent higher education.
$665,044 spent38% of program spendingThe association serves its members in many ways. It disseminated information and provided various services both to its members and to the public. The association also sponsored various programs through royalty agreements with independent vendors to help colleges and universities realize savings through economies of scale. Such programs include a telecommunications program, bond facilities program, employment benefits program, energy procurement and energy management program, student loan program, software procurement program, tuition installment program, purchase card program, envionmental compliance, student health insurance, cyber security initiative, and a multiple employer retirement plan.
$391,271 spent$1,493,157 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe association conducted various research studies which included the following: freshman admission and financial aid, student financial aid, financial analysis and trends, tuition and fee and patterns of voluntary support, baccalaureate research study. The association has undertaken an economic development project designed to align state, local, and college economic development initiatives and assist individual member schools or consortia of schools with specific projects. The association publishes an overall economic impact report of pa's independent higher education sector.
$415,035 spent$15,584 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,766,450.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.5M to $5.1M (+16%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750 → $35k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Council of Independent Colleges). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
50% 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 ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2023 71% — diversifying over time.
“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.
Where its funders are
50% of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is 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.
Against its field
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
68% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA?
- ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($55,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $109,000 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF PENNSYLVANIA 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 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing