Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MICROSOCIETY INC
MICROSOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,235,127 to it, the largest being CHRISTY AND JOHN MACK FOUNDATION ($1,654,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $281k
What Microsociety Inc does
Mission
The organization seeks to cultivate thinkers, problem solvers, and innovators ready to compete in the 21st century global economy by providing children and youth the opportunity to experiment, create, produce, and modify in their own interdependent, free market communities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Professional services major updates were made to our existing curriculum, including refreshes of our business venture guidebooks and digital versions of key microadventures lessons for inclusion in microsociety 2.0. New materials introduced this year include a teacher facilitator manual and stock market curriculum. All curriculum and instructional resources align with standards and connect to the increasingly complex real world of the microsociety learning environment. To meet the needs of students and educators in this ever-changing educational landscape, msi continues developing two digital tools: 1) microsociety? 2.0, a customizable web portal that utilizes google technologies and a digital financial system that uses custom software for piloting schools to take their microsocieties online, accelerate financial literacy and other career skills development, and expose students to 21st- century digital careers, and 2) 4th terra? , a 3d online simulation "game as service" to support subject matter instruction, particularly stem, along with critical thinking, decision-making and communication skills. In particular, the simulation facilitates students' ability to think deeply from…
$470,310 spent54% of program spendingProgram initiatives and research evaluation ("r&e") the pittsburgh expansion project, supported by a grant from the richard king mellon foundation, laid the groundwork for establishing a regional center of excellence in allegheny county, pennsylvania. The organization is preparing to add new microsociety sites in the region with penn hills charter school of entrepreneurship as a regional hub. University partnerships with carnegie mellon and west liberty universities have been instrumental in integrating cutting-edge programming to provide students with exciting new 21st-century learning opportunities, including a visualizing data project to teach children how to work with real-world data mined from their microsociety experiences. In its commitment to continuous improvement, msi undertook a third-party evaluation of microsociety 2.0 at penn hills charter school of entrepreneurship. This rigorous assessment will provide valuable insights that help us refine our approaches and maximize our impact on students and communities.
$378,726 spent43% of program spendingClient services and outreach msi's commitment to new school supports soared with the rollout of virtual "microchats" for school leadership teams and coordinators, "microforum," a private google chat space where microsociety educators can ask questions and get and share tips, and designing a "microportal" website, a go-to place for curriculum and classroom materials. These new communication tools, along with a new student youtube series, were showcased during msi's second virtual seminar, leveraging fresh perspectives and insights and exchanging ideas, best practices, and success stories, and in an august gathering of msi's faculty of certified consultants. Updated curriculum and training materials resulted in a revised teacher-training model that aligns with educational advances and efforts of the research and development ("r&d") work of msi. The two-day convening sparked renewed collaboration and strengthened a collective vision for future professional services.
$27,296 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $876,332.
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 2023 to 2024, from $142k to $635k (+348%).
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 59% · 2018 61% · 2019 48% · 2020 37% · 2021 32% · 2022 29% · 2023 28% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MICROSOCIETY INC’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. 4 of the last 8 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
Richard B Wickersham Jr
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $402k.
6 of 10 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 MICROSOCIETY INC’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
MICROSOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 49% · 2022 50% · 2023 70% — 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
75% of MICROSOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
MICROSOCIETY INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $552k 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
MICROSOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 MICROSOCIETY INC
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MICROSOCIETY INC?
- MICROSOCIETY INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,235,127 to it, the largest being CHRISTY AND JOHN MACK FOUNDATION ($1,654,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MICROSOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $3,235,127 in grants to MICROSOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MICROSOCIETY INC?
- CHRISTY AND JOHN MACK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,654,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MICROSOCIETY 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.
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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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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