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NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE

NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,291,509 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ($1,175,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$949k
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$2.2M
11/20 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Negro Educational Emergency Drive does

Mission

Need provides career and college access services which empower youth from the pittsburgh region to aspire to, learn about, prepare for and complete higher education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Needs flagship program awards grants to eligible students to fill the gaps when all local,state, and federal college fundingsources have been exhausted. Many of the students receiving last dollar grants are first generation, low income at-risk students.

    $741,829 spent
    67% of program spending
  2. Need provides various student service programs to help youth from the pittsburgh region to aspire to, learn about,prepare for and complete higher education.these programs include the african american male mentoring initiative, access to college & career education program,workforce diversity internship program, historical black college & university tour and the stem program.

    $361,586 spent
    33% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,103,415.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 95 ($950k) Expenses 79 ($1.3M) Net assets 92 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 119 ($1.2M) Expenses 85 ($1.3M) Net assets 88 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 95 ($953k) Expenses 79 ($1.3M) Net assets 78 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 109 ($1.1M) Expenses 71 ($1.1M) Net assets 89 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 54 ($538k) Expenses 80 ($1.3M) Net assets 69 ($2.5M)2023 Revenue 168 ($1.7M) Expenses 90 ($1.4M) Net assets 76 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 163 ($1.6M) Expenses 99 ($1.6M) Net assets 75 ($2.7M)2025 Revenue 94 ($949k) Expenses 94 ($1.5M) Net assets 60 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (94)Expenses (94)Net assets (60)Peer revenue range

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 $3.3M to $2.6M (−23%).

$3.8M
$3.5M
$3.3M
$2.9M
$3.3M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$587k
’17
−$303k
’18
−$145k
’19
−$302k
’20
−$36k
’21
−$733k
’22
$257k
’23
$62k
’24
−$549k
’25
1.4
months of
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

Marcia Sturdivant

CEO

Board chair

Ross Johnson

Chairperson of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed10118887878
Joined·+3+1+0+0+0+2+1+1
No longer listed·24001120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $454k → $641k.

7 of 20 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 NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE’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

NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE.

36%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 37% · 2019 48% · 2020 35% · 2021 49% · 2022 46% · 2023 62% — 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

50% of NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

100% of NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $557k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−58% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 23%Fundraising 3%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE?
NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,291,509 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ($1,175,400). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $3,291,509 in grants to NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE?
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH is the largest funder on record, with $1,175,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEGRO EDUCATIONAL EMERGENCY DRIVE 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 20 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