Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE
ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,596 to it, the largest being BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ($460,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $822k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Ecole Francaise Internationale de Philadelphie does
Mission
The Ecole Francaise Internationale de Philadelphie, also known as efip or french international school of philadelphia, is an independent school serving a multicultural community and offering a dual curriculum in french and in english, accredited by the middle states association and the french ministry of education. Our students become fluent in both languages, competent in all academic subjects, grow as creative individuals with problem-solving skills, and gain an understanding and appreciation for other cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The french international school of philadelphia, also known as Ecole Francaise Internationale de Philadelphie (efip), offers a strong academic curriculum in french and english for students in preschool through eighth grade. It was founded in 1991 in rented space with just eight students. Eventually, as the school steadily grew, it was able to purchase two separate facilities in bala cynwyd - a lower school in 1997 and an upper school in 2006. Today there are 320 students enrolled, representing more than 45 different nationalities. Students who do not speak french can enter at age 3, 4, or 5. The french international school attracts equal numbers of french, american, and international families who want their children to receive a top quality academic education while gaining the added benefit of becoming bilingual and experiencing other cultures. The school offers a balanced program that capitalizes on the strengths of both the french and american educational systems. Its students succeed in developing their bilingual abilities because language acquisition and academic learning are occurring at the same time. The french international school is a not-for-profit independent school. It…
$9,237,855 spentof which $2,544,839 as grants$10,206,727 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,237,855.
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 $11M to $16M (+48%).
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: 2017 6% · 2018 7% · 2019 5% · 2020 6% · 2021 5% · 2022 15% · 2023 4% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Mrs Nadine Durham
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $120k → $39k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE’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
ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 66% · 2022 78% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $212k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE's revenue grew 47% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE?
- ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $821,596 to it, the largest being BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ($460,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $821,596 in grants to ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE?
- BUSINESS LEADERSHIP ORGANIZED FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS is the largest funder on record, with $460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLE FRANCAISE INTERNATIONALE DE PHILADELPHIE 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 9 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