Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PACE SCHOOL
PACE SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,830 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Pace School does
Mission
Pace School is a placement option for school districts in allegheny and surrounding counties and serves children, kindergarten through age twenty one, with emotional challenges or autism.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pace encompasses a variety of services under its umbrella. The largest service is the approved private school program. The aps is a licensed private special education school which has been "approved" by the pa department of education to serve students with emotional disturbance and autism. Students referred to pace's approved private school have complex emotional and behavioral disorders that complicate their educational success and impair their development and functioning. For this reason, pace also provides a partial hospitalization program. The php is an intensive service delivery model that provides mental and behavioral health services fully integrated into the special education program. Students in the school based partial hospitalization program have chronic psychiatric needs and this service model allows them to receive interventions tailored to their changing needs.in all its programs, pace provides educational and therapeutic services that enable any child to thrive. We teach children to break through the social and emotional barriers to school success.
$8,824,759 spentof which $1,000,000 as grants$8,288,676 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,824,759.
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 2017 to 2018, from $9.1M to $8.3M (−9%).
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: 2020 2% · 2021 6% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of PACE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 7 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 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pace School Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money PACE SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of PACE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
PACE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
32% 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 PACE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 94% · 2019 69% · 2020 59% · 2021 53% · 2022 64% · 2023 16% — 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
86% of PACE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 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
84% of PACE SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PACE SCHOOL is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PACE SCHOOL
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Pace School Endowment Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PACE SCHOOL: 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 PACE SCHOOL?
- PACE SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,830 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($28,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PACE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $91,830 in grants to PACE SCHOOL, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PACE SCHOOL?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PACE SCHOOL 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.
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 12 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