Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,631,556 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,435,676). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 125
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $95M
What Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts does
Mission
The academy operates a post-secondary educational program in fine arts as well as a gallery collection of american art. In addition, the academy sponsors fine arts classes for all ages and free arts programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pafa's post-secondary fine arts program offers programs in painting, print-making, sculpting and drawing. The school grants a four year certificate, a bachelor of fine arts degree, and a master of fine arts degree.
$8,372,076 spentof which $1,105,265 as grants$1,794,589 earned by the program73% of program spendingPafa operates a gallery that displays great works of american art. It is the oldest such gallery in the u.s. And its principal building is a historical structure. The school also hosts several special exhibitions each year.
$1,923,569 spent$829,391 earned by the program17% of program spendingPublic education team sponsors fine art classes for all ages both on and off-site.
$1,119,915 spent$741,396 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,415,560.
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 2021 to 2022, from $134M to $118M (−12%).
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: 2017 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 15% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 5% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
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
Eric G Pryor
President & CEO
Board chair
Donald R Caldwell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.7M.
17 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 27% · 2019 20% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 19% · 2023 30% — 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
46% of PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
70% of PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Education$1.4M
- Department of the Interior$750k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$474k
- National Endowment for the Arts$425k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$225k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: 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 PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS?
- PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,631,556 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,435,676). 79 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $17,631,556 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, 79 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,435,676 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS 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 125 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