Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA
GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,182,721 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ($775,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Graduate Philadelphia does
Mission
Graduate Philadelphia is a nonprofit organization with a mission to increase the number of low-to-moderate income adults completing a postsecondary credential in the greater philadelphia region, by engaging business, higher education, government, organized labor, workforce and economic development, community building organizations, and social service providers to align existing resources, remove barriers, and create new pathways. As both a direct service provider and systems impact leader, Graduate Philadelphia serves uniquely at the intersection of postsecondary education, workforce development, and community engagement. Focusing on the adult learner community, Graduate Philadelphia takes a community-level approach to recruit and to support adult learners and front-line workers through the following core activities: * coaching and advising non-traditional, diverse adult learners to obtain academic and workforce credentials and a living wage income * delivering foundational skills-based training in high-demand industries and connecting that foundational training to associate and bachelor's degree pathways and stackable credentials. * working with businesses and employers to design…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Graduate Philadelphia's work is focused on advancing learning pathways and economic opportunity. Our three largest programs include the following:career integrated learning advisingGraduate Philadelphia's career integrated learning advising focuses on supporting adult learners from pre-enrollment through degree completion and attainment of other workforce credentials. The goal is to assist adult learners in obtaining the skills and opportunities needed for greater social and economic mobility and to support them in preparing to obtain family-sustaining wage employment opportunities. Leveraging best practices in proactive advising, Graduate Philadelphia's advising services proactively provide information to adult learners in learning options, career resources, wraparound services, and financial literacy.upskilling & reskilling of low-to mid-skilled workersthrough a network partnership with colleges, universities, and other learning providers, Graduate Philadelphia provides access to upskilling and reskilling resources and programs focused on credential attainment and degree completion. Examples include professional development, certificates, certifications, industry credentialing,…
$1,192,861 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,192,861.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $1.5M (−7%).
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 13% · 2022 37% · 2023 37% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Malik Brown
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $451k → $504k.
9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 25 of 26 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
GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA 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
47% 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 GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 64% · 2022 40% · 2023 20% — 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
57% of GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 58% 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
76% of GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA: 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 GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA?
- GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,182,721 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ($775,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $3,182,721 in grants to GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA?
- THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRADUATE PHILADELPHIA 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 26 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