Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,997,176 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,289,064). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $67M
What Clarion University Foundation Inc does
Mission
To provide financial and other support deemed necessary and appropriate to strengthen the well being of pennsylvania western university - clarion (pennwest clarion) and the total pennwest clarion community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Student housing:programs of the foundation include reinhard villages, the student housing project at pennwest clarion on-campus residence halls suites - phase I and the student housing project at pennwest clarion on-campus residence halls suites - phase ii. These programs include residential buildings on the university campus and provide living quarters for students of the university.
$3,286,773 spent$2,609,716 earned by the program57% of program spendingFoundation supported activities and programs - approximately 100 different programs.
$1,217,990 spent$171,426 earned by the program21% of program spending26 grants for special projects benefiting students, alumni, personnel, and the college community.1,876 scholarships and awards benefiting 620 students.
$1,291,089 spentof which $1,291,089 as grants$340,000 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,795,852.
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 2021 to 2022, from $163M to $153M (−6%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’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. 8 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.
Chief executive
Max Smith
Executive director/ex-officio
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $206k → $347k.
13 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 52% · 2020 73% · 2021 27% · 2022 39% · 2023 58% — 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
44% of CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
59% of CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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
CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 20 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Pennsylvania Western University · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (3) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: 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 CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,997,176 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,289,064). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,997,176 in grants to CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,289,064 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLARION UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC 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.
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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 41 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing