Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NEED IN DEED
NEED IN DEED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072,795 to it, the largest being Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc ($125,100). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Need in Deed does
Mission
With commitment to equity in education, Need in Deed improves the education experience of students grades 3-8 in philadelphia's public schools, transforming teaching and learning through a unique approach to service- learning that connects the classroom with the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
With a mission to improve the education of students grades 3-8 in philadelphia's traditional public and charter schools, Need in Deed serves 3,600 to 3,900 students annually, helping them to increase their academic and 21st-century skills through the transformative experience of service- learning that connects the classroom with the community. We engage students in a yearlong process of active problem-solving around community issue of each classroom's choice. Known as service-learning, the process deepens students' connection to school; improves their academic, social, and emotional skills; and builds habits of inquiry, problem solving, and civic participation. We make this experience possible through a unique partnership in which up to 150 school district of philadelphia teachers in some 60 schools across the city voluntarily elect to integrate our approach into their classroom practice; representatives of the city's vast network of public agencies and private organizations voluntarily serve as classroom resources during the students; inquiry and design process; and Need in Deed staff supports each classroom from initial inquiry through project implementation.
$470,251 spent$6,920 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $470,251.
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 $1.5M to $1.2M (−21%).
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 11% · 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of NEED IN DEED’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $83k → $157k.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 NEED IN DEED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
NEED IN DEED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
38% 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 NEED IN DEED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 45% · 2019 37% · 2020 28% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 22% — 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
48% of NEED IN DEED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
69% of NEED IN DEED's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $295k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NEED IN DEED's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding NEED IN DEED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $53k on record.
- INSTR SUPPORT SERVICES$34k
- ASSOC DUES AND CONF FEES$10k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES$9k
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 NEED IN DEED
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
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 NEED IN DEED: 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 NEED IN DEED?
- NEED IN DEED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,072,795 to it, the largest being Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc ($125,100). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEED IN DEED have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $1,072,795 in grants to NEED IN DEED, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEED IN DEED?
- Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $125,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEED IN DEED 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 44 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