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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,081,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($9,019,843). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.3M
Revenue FY2025
30
Funders on record
$16M
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
23/30 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.0M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 95 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 105 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 106 ($4.2M) Expenses 112 ($4.2M) Net assets 108 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 131 ($5.2M) Expenses 116 ($4.3M) Net assets 177 ($2.4M)2021 Revenue 127 ($5.1M) Expenses 123 ($4.6M) Net assets 214 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 220 ($8.8M) Expenses 149 ($5.5M) Net assets 451 ($6.0M)2023 Revenue 158 ($6.3M) Expenses 162 ($6.0M) Net assets 484 ($6.5M)2024 Revenue 169 ($6.7M) Expenses 174 ($6.5M) Net assets 519 ($7.0M)2025 Revenue 207 ($8.3M) Expenses 199 ($7.4M) Net assets 602 ($8.1M)
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Revenue (207)Expenses (199)Net assets (602)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 13% · 2019 12% · 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 6% · 2024 22% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$266k
17
$73k
18
$36k
19
$923k
20
$490k
21
$3.2M
22
$306k
23
$257k
24
$854k
25
6.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.8M.

10 of 30 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 30 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

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC.

56%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 76% · 2019 79% · 2020 74% · 2021 69% · 2022 66% · 2023 54%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

73% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

IL
NV
OH
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

03Its place in the field

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 30 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.3M on record.

Federal$2.3M
grants $2.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Education$2.3M

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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 9%Fundraising 8%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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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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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,081,236 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY ($9,019,843). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $16,081,236 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY is the largest funder on record, with $9,019,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA 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.

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 30funders 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