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PENN HILLEL

PENN HILLEL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,850 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,079,856). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$3.2M
Revenue FY2025
35
Funders on record
$4.2M
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
20/35 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

PENN HILLEL is better cushioned than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($4.0M) Net assets 100 ($13M)2021 Revenue 99 ($3.3M) Expenses 68 ($2.7M) Net assets 112 ($14M)2022 Revenue 97 ($3.2M) Expenses 77 ($3.1M) Net assets 110 ($14M)2023 Revenue 89 ($2.9M) Expenses 82 ($3.3M) Net assets 72 ($9.1M)2024 Revenue 107 ($3.5M) Expenses 131 ($5.3M) Net assets 58 ($7.3M)2025 Revenue 98 ($3.2M) Expenses 89 ($3.6M) Net assets 53 ($6.7M)
201920212022202320242025
Revenue (98)Expenses (89)Net assets (53)Peer revenue range

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.

2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of PENN HILLEL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$741k
19
$523k
21
$101k
22
$369k
23
$1.8M
24
$372k
25
7.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $425k → $642k.

16 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)79% 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: $8.0M from 15 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life). These are real filings, and they are not money PENN HILLEL raised.

From the IRS filings of PENN HILLEL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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

PENN HILLEL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

95% 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 PENN HILLEL.

49%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 56% · 2019 45% · 2020 38% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 37%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

25% of PENN HILLEL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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

79% of PENN HILLEL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $903k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states.

NY
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC

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

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18
19
20
21
22
23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 35 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PENN HILLEL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 16%Fundraising 14%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Penn Hillel Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENN HILLEL: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PENN HILLEL?
PENN HILLEL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,210,850 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,079,856). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PENN HILLEL have?
IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $4,210,850 in grants to PENN HILLEL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PENN HILLEL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,079,856 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PENN HILLEL 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 35funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing