Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,266,815 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($876,009). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences does
Mission
A dynamic and academically rigorous institution, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences (the "college") is a private, accredited, four-year college offering associate, baccalaureate and graduate degree programs, as well as certificate programs in healthcare. Located in lancaster, pa, the college attracts a select group of approximately 1,800 students to study with faculty who are experts in their specialty areas. Effective december 31, 2023, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences merged into saint joseph's university (ein: 23-1352674).
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
The college is a private, co-educational, middle states-accredited, four-year college offering a variety of associate, baccalaureate and graduate degree programs, as well as certificate programs in healthcare. A select group of approximately 1,800 students study with faculty who are experts in their specialty areas. Pa college is the educational arm of the penn medicine/lancaster general health system. The clinical facilities of the hospital enrich the learning environment for students. Learnng at the college occurs in an interactive atmosphere that encourages and provides opportunities for self-direction and critical thinking. The learning environment is nurturing and promotes the cultivation of global perspectives, self-awareness and intelligent citizenship. The curricula are developed to promote the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable learners to become professionally competent and socially responsible.
$16,972,114 spentof which $840,538 as grants$33,213,081 earned by the program63% of program spendingThe college provides students with a complete set of administrative services and policies that provide for a high-quality college experience. Some of those services include computing resources, health, counseling, campus safety and security, advising and registration, career, and financial aid resources. An online portal provides a one-stop home for all student support questions and functions. The portal is available 24 hours, seven days per week. The college also has over 8,000 square feet dedicated to provide academic support services designed to help each student attain maximum academic achievement.
$10,119,097 spent$121,336 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,091,211.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $85M to $0 (−100%).
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 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 4% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Chip Sernyak
Trustee/chairperson
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $384k → $53k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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: $15k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey). These are real filings, and they are not money PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES raised.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES’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 HEALTH SCIENCES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 HEALTH SCIENCES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 62% · 2019 75% · 2020 28% · 2021 68% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — 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
58% of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
75% of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES'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 $313k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $954k 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.
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 90 related entities
- The Leonard and Madlyn Abramson Inst · exempt
- Carl V S Patterson 19 Un of Pa · exempt
- Chester County Hospital & Health System · exempt
- Clinical Care Associates of Uphs · exempt
- Lancaster General Health · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES?
- PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,266,815 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($876,009). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,266,815 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $876,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 14 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