Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION
PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,613 to it, the largest being THE JULIAN A AND LOIS G BRODSKY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $841k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $142k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation does
Mission
The Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation's mission is to inspire young people to pursue careers in accounting and to provide educational, motivational, and financial support to those working to attain the certified public accountant (cpa) credential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cpas work in a myriad of businesses and possess a broad spectrum of skills and knowledge. Studies show that young people who are exposed to, and influenced by, cpas are more likely to consider an accounting career. The Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation provides opportunities for students to learn about career options available to them when they choose to pursue an accounting degree. In addition, the Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation provides financial, educational, and career guidance.a record number of students have chosen accounting as a major in recent years, many are not becoming cpas. This has created a talent gap in accounting firms of all sizes. Leaders of the profession continue to cite talent acquisition and retention as their most critical challenge. The path to become a cpa is not an easy one. But with the right financial, educational, and motivational support, the journey can be less onerous. The Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation works to deliver that through cpa exam and licensing information, updates to the cpa exam, cpa exam scholarship and awareness programing.while many of the Pennsylvania Cpa Foundation's programs reach and support disadvantaged students among prospective cpas,…
$793,384 spentof which $138,000 as grants$9,800 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $793,384.
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 $82k to $3.0M (+3512%).
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.
86% of PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Jennifer Cryder Cpa Mba
CEO, treasurer
Board chair
Pamela Baker Cpa
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $53k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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: $4.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants). These are real filings, and they are not money PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION’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 CPA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
46% 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 CPA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 45% · 2021 54% · 2022 30% · 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
40% of PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k 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 CPA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (Picpa) · exempt
- Picpa Foundation for Education and Research · exempt
- Pennsylvania Institute of Cpas Insurance Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION: 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 CPA FOUNDATION?
- PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,613 to it, the largest being THE JULIAN A AND LOIS G BRODSKY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $141,613 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION?
- THE JULIAN A AND LOIS G BRODSKY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA CPA FOUNDATION 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 11 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