Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION
BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,017,202 to it, the largest being BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ($1,516,399). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Searle Freedom Trustshared funders
- Tntp Incportfolio match
- Center for Black Educator Developmentportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
100% of BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION’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
BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION.
“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
55% of BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION'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 $1.4M that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Searle Freedom Trustshared fundersWI · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Tntp Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for Black Educator Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Poise Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caroline Alexander Buck Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Patricia Kind Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children Can Shape the Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Allen Hilles Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Shiras Twportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Education Leaders of Color Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION: 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 BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION?
- BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,017,202 to it, the largest being BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC ($1,516,399). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,017,202 in grants to BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION?
- BRADLEY IMPACT FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,516,399 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK PASTORS UNITED FOR EDUCATION 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 12funders 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