Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,398,145 to it, the largest being MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($970,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $85M
What Lackawanna College does
Mission
Lackawanna College is an accredited, private, non-profit education institution whose mission is to provide a quality education to all persons who seek to improve their lives and better the communities in which they live. The college strives to be an affordable, open-enrollment college, providing a high quality and transferable education that exceeds academic expectations for students at all learning levels. The college is committed to providing educational opportunities for students who are academically underprepared for college level work, and nurturing students' sense of self-worth and capacity to make a difference. The college is also committed to cultivating and maintaining active partnerships with our regional community, including other educational institutions, businesses, and non-profit agencies. The college delivers service through excellence in programs that prepare students to succeed in the workforce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tuition and fees for undergraduate students. Lackawanna College is an institution of higher education accredited by the middle states commission on higher education. The institution offers 22 associate degree programs and 8 bachelor degree programs to its undergraduate student population. In fall 2024, lackawanna enrolled nearly 1,910 undergraduate students.
$24,268,536 spentof which $3,136,497 as grants$32,359,055 earned by the program81% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprise revenue. Ninety-five percent (95%) of Lackawanna College's auxiliary enterprise revenue is generated by offering housing and food service to approximately 300 students in college-owned facilities.
$4,231,034 spent$3,827,844 earned by the program14% of program spendingContinuing education and miscellaneous program revenue. Lackawanna College operates a continuing education department that addresses the educational needs of the community that do not fall under the traditional college credit structure. Through the department, the college offers a diploma program in its act 120 police academy and various certificate and workforce development programs, including programs funded under the trade adjustment assistance for workers and workforce innovation and opportunity acts.
$1,526,460 spent$1,795,707 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $30,026,030.
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 2024 to 2025, from $79M to $110M (+39%).
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: 2018 9% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2022 21% · 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of LACKAWANNA COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jody Cordaro
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $40k → $291k.
9 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 81% · 2020 32% · 2021 33% · 2022 20% · 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
40% of LACKAWANNA COLLEGE'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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $510k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LACKAWANNA COLLEGE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LACKAWANNA COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.9M on record — $16.8M federal, $132k state.
- Department of Education$15.7M
- Department of Commerce$963k
- Appalachian Regional Commission$160k
- FEDERAL$132k
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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LACKAWANNA COLLEGE: 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 LACKAWANNA COLLEGE?
- LACKAWANNA COLLEGE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,398,145 to it, the largest being MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC ($970,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LACKAWANNA COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,398,145 in grants to LACKAWANNA COLLEGE, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LACKAWANNA COLLEGE?
- MOSES TAYLOR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $970,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LACKAWANNA COLLEGE 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 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing