Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PEGGY BROWNING FUND
PEGGY BROWNING FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,674,379 to it, the largest being STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION ($370,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $857k
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $514k
What Peggy Browning Fund does
Mission
Description of organization's mission statement: the Peggy Browning Fund (pbf) educates and inspires the next generation of advocates for workplace justice. Through fellowships, workers' rights conferences, regional workshops, networking, alumni activities and other programs, pbf provides unique opportunities for law students to work for economic and social justice. Description of organization's vision statement: the Peggy Browning Fund is a preeminent training ground and recruiting source of legal advocates for social and economic justice for workers. It carries the message to law students that workers' rights are civil rights and that the movement for workplace democracy and justice is both a noble calling and a viable career. Pbf promotes students' awareness of the evolving challenges that face workers and encourages activism around legal strategies that address them. The workplace justice movement looks to the Peggy Browning Fund as a highly selective and prestigious source of legal talent. Pbf's diverse programs and national alumni network enable the next generation of committed lawyers to find and afford meaningful careers on behalf of working people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fellowship program see attachment to schedule o for description of program services.
$814,327 spentof which $203,000 as grants$58,672 earned by the program100% of program spendingAnnual national law students workers rights' conference see attachment to schedule o for description of program services.
Networking meetings, events, and related activities - the organization holds various networking meetings and events throughout the year for its students and for others in the labor movement. These meetings provide important opportunities for students to be exposed to the broader labor community and for members of that community to network with each other and to learn about their respective issues and programs.
Newsletter - the organization publishes a newsletter providing news about its events and programs.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $814,327.
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 $1.3M to $668k (−48%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of PEGGY BROWNING FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Rachel Del Rossi
Executive director (p)
Board chair
Richard Brean Esq
Chair (p)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $199k → $114k.
4 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 PEGGY BROWNING FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
PEGGY BROWNING FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
99% 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 PEGGY BROWNING FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 17% · 2019 22% · 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 15% · 2023 35% — 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
30% of PEGGY BROWNING FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
PEGGY BROWNING FUND draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
PEGGY BROWNING FUND receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PEGGY BROWNING FUND
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEGGY BROWNING FUND: 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 PEGGY BROWNING FUND?
- PEGGY BROWNING FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,674,379 to it, the largest being STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION ($370,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEGGY BROWNING FUND have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $1,674,379 in grants to PEGGY BROWNING FUND, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEGGY BROWNING FUND?
- STEELWORKERS CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $370,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEGGY BROWNING FUND 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 58 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