Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GENERATIONS ON LINE
GENERATIONS ON LINE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,323 to it, the largest being THE SARAH RALSTON FOUNDATION ($165,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $87k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $677k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Generations on Line does
Mission
Generations on Line's mission is to foster and promote internet literacy, access and skills to older adults.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We celebrated our 25th anniversary in september, with tributes to those who brought us to this point and a retrospective from the launch with the u.s. Secretary of commerce norman mineta and philadelphia mayor john street on september 7, 2000. Moving from a 5-year vision to serve 72,000 seniors, we have now trained more than 300,000 older adults in every state and in some english-speaking countries through our web-based tutorials and apps. 2025 was a major year for our work in philadelphia, thanks to the sarah ralston foundation which provided a significant two-year innovation grant to help us develop imacomputer.org, a training, safety, and experiential introduction to conversational ai. We completed five focus groups and five diverse pilot studies to create and refine a learner-centered tutorial in 9 languages. Some 6,000 individuals over the age of 65 were trained on the use of their phone or tablet so they could take advantage of everything from apps to zooming with family. 18 new groups contacted us about creating a sip & swipe caf, our deployment strategy for basic internet literacy. This is in addition to the 48 sip & swipe cafes we have had in philadelphia over time. We…
$147,332 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $147,332.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $265k to $177k (−33%).
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 25% · 2022 67% · 2023 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of GENERATIONS ON LINE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Tobey Dichter
Chair & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $130k → $42k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 GENERATIONS ON LINE’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
GENERATIONS ON LINE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders 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 GENERATIONS ON LINE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 40% · 2019 78% · 2020 76% · 2021 71% · 2022 79% · 2023 60% — 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
25% of GENERATIONS ON LINE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
91% of GENERATIONS ON LINE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
GENERATIONS ON LINE's revenue fell 47% between 2019 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GENERATIONS ON LINE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 GENERATIONS ON LINE: 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 GENERATIONS ON LINE?
- GENERATIONS ON LINE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $677,323 to it, the largest being THE SARAH RALSTON FOUNDATION ($165,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GENERATIONS ON LINE have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $677,323 in grants to GENERATIONS ON LINE, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENERATIONS ON LINE?
- THE SARAH RALSTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $165,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENERATIONS ON LINE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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