Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,571 to it, the largest being THE DONALD B AND DOROTHY L STABLER FOUNDATION ($340,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Pennsylvania College of Art & Design does
Mission
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pennsylvania college of art and design (pca&d) is one of the region's leading cultural centers. Pca&d offers signature events, artist talks, classes, workshops, and gallery events throughout the year that are unique within and closely link us to the lancaster community. Pca&d students are an integral part of the fabric of our community. The mosaic project provides scholarships for under-served middle school and high school students from two lancaster city/county districts so they may spend a day with professional artists who are successful in their fields. These students also see, first hand, that careers in art and design are truly within their reach. Through the 24-hour designathon, pca&d has partnered with over two dozen non-profits throughout lancaster county. This program provides real-world experience for graphic design students by matching them with non-profits in need of professional-quality design work. The pca&d campus extends to the art garden, located directly across prince street from the college's main entrance. The art garden is a pocket of green space that the entire community enjoys. It is often a meeting place on first fridays, and it provides another welcome…
$12,968,307 spentof which $3,297,335 as grants$15,004,789 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,968,307.
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 $17M to $19M (+16%).
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 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 11% · 2023 1% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
James D Warner
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $22k → $211k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN’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
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
55% 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 43% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 52% — 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
38% of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
76% of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $624k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN has grown faster 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record — $2.5M federal, $164k state.
- Department of Education$2.5M
- TUITION REIMBURSEMENTS$87k
- TUITION OUT/ST OR PRIVATE$76k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$750
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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
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
76% 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN?
- PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,542,571 to it, the largest being THE DONALD B AND DOROTHY L STABLER FOUNDATION ($340,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,542,571 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN?
- THE DONALD B AND DOROTHY L STABLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $340,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 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 21 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