Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT
PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,500 to it, the largest being PA ALLIANCE ACTION ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $247
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $0
What Pennsylvania Spotlight does
Mission
To educate the public on issues that enhance the well-being of middle class families and workers here in pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Educating the public about attempts to divide our state. Pennsylvanians deserve an inclusive vision that values all people, creates a strong middle class, and does not fall into the divisive politics we have seen emerge across the nation.
$6,402 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $7k to $95k (+1303%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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 Rosso
Director/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $110k → $105k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SPOTLIGHT’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 SPOTLIGHT 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
100% 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 SPOTLIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 45% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 89% · 2022 28% · 2023 57% — 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
29% of PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 SPOTLIGHT draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $190k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 SPOTLIGHT
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT: 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 SPOTLIGHT?
- PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,017,500 to it, the largest being PA ALLIANCE ACTION ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,017,500 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT?
- PA ALLIANCE ACTION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA SPOTLIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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