Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,436,920 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,788,706). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Committee of Seventy does
Mission
The Committee of Seventy is a nonpartisan civic leadership organization that advances representative, ethical and effective government in philadelphia and pennsylvania through citizen engagement and public policy advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Election & civic education engagement seventy's election program has several tools available to help voters learn about their rights as a voter and make informed decisions when they vote. The interactive voter guide allows voters to type in their address and review all of the candidates on their ballot before they head to the polls. They can review the options, select their candidates and print or save them; they can even share with friends and family to encourage others to vote, find their polling place, or apply to vote by mail. Seventy also broadcasts facebook live interviews from studio c70. The interviews, with candidates for public office, thought leaders, and political insiders, help voters get more informed and civically engaged. All of this information can be accessed through our social media channels and website. The wevote initiative promotes a culture of voting in businesses, organizations, and communities in the region and across the commonwealth. Participants can encourage all employees, volunteers, and constituents to vote, easily share our voter resources, and offer as much flexibility as possible on election day so there are fewer obstacles for voting. Seventy…
$1,278,376 spent69% of program spendingFall & spring events seventy's fall and spring events have become important and informative annual programs for individuals with influence and an interest in politics and government at every level. Past speakers have included a us vice president, us senators, governors, historians and political commentators.
$215,402 spent12% of program spendingState advocacy seventy's state advocacy includes policy agenda development and lobbying around priority issues that relate to ethical, representative, and/or effective government in harrisburg. Specific issue areas of interest for state government reform include redistricting (state legislative and congressional), elections and voting, ethics and gifts, and campaign finance. Advocacy efforts include external communications (press statements, emails, social media), working with coalitions and other organizations, and direct lobbying (meeting with state officials and staff). Seventy is also the sponsor of the ballot pa initiative, which advocates for open primary elections in pennsylvania.
$319,059 spent17% of program spendingOther mission critical programs
$44,671 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,857,508.
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 $1.5M to $2.7M (+79%).
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 5% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $168k → $1.3M.
17 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
41% 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 COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 60% · 2019 25% · 2020 42% · 2021 33% · 2022 30% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
68% of COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 976 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY: 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 COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY?
- COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,436,920 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,788,706). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $7,436,920 in grants to COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,788,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMITTEE OF SEVENTY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60 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