Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENN PRAXIS INC
PENN PRAXIS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,480 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($94,980). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $685k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $287k
- Net assets
- $420k
What Penn Praxis Inc does
Mission
Penn praxis serves to further the mission of the stuart weitzman school of design in the fields of architecture, planning, landscape architecture, community development, fine art and historic preservation. Penn praxis is a vehicle for carrying out practical or applied projects for external clients. Penn praxis serves to provide opportunities for student and faculty education and development, strengthen community ties, and provide service to the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Statement of program service accomplishments penn praxis operates to support the charitable, scientific and educational purposes of the trustees of the university of pennsylvania ("penn"). The focus of penn praxis' activities are to broaden and enrich penn's academic experience and to further the mission of the stuart weitzman school of design in the fields of architecture, planning, landscape architecture, community development, fine art and historic preservation. In addition, penn praxis provides opportunities for student and faculty education and development, strengthens community ties, and provides services to the community. In this regard, the objectives of Penn Praxis Include: offering increased and enhanced educational opportunities for faculty and students to test ideas and apply theories through practical projects; providing the opportunity for students to work collaboratively with faculty, while offering financial support for students during their studies; encouraging joint projects by faculty across the various disciplines of the stuart weitzman school of design, as well as promoting community outreach and providing assistance to members of the community who do not have…
$1,163,332 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,163,332.
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 $383k to $214k (−44%).
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.
100% of PENN PRAXIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Ellen Nieses
Exec. Director
Board chair
Frederick Steiner
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $60k → $133k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 PENN PRAXIS INC’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
PENN PRAXIS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 PRAXIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 38% — 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.
Where its funders are
59% of PENN PRAXIS INC'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 $118k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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
PENN PRAXIS INC's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PENN PRAXIS INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PENN PRAXIS INC?
- PENN PRAXIS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $287,480 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($94,980). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PENN PRAXIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $287,480 in grants to PENN PRAXIS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PENN PRAXIS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $94,980 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENN PRAXIS INC 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 6 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