Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,154,150 to it, the largest being BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ($663,882). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $70M
What Philadelphia University does
Mission
The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research and patient care. We are a university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for 21st century students with excellence in architecture, business, design, engineering, fashion & textiles, health, science and social science - infused with the liberal arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Expenses incurred in providing an experiential education and providing more than 20 laboratories and studios for hands-on experience in architecture and interior design, engineering, textile design, fashion design, graphic design, industrial design, physician assistant studies and other allied health fields, as well as faculty access to the most sophisticated technology available. For additional information, please refer to the organizations statement of program service accomplishments included in schedule o.
$166,034,935 spentof which $75,962,538 as grants$168,700,873 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $166,034,935.
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 $230M to $208M (−10%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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
Joseph G Cacchionemdfacc
Trustee - CEO tju/jeff health
Board chair
Patricia Wellenbach
Chair - trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 22 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $228k → $670k.
4 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $594k from 8 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Carnegie Mellon University). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY 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
86% 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 PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 51% · 2019 40% · 2020 84% · 2021 45% · 2022 56% · 2023 90% — 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
15% of PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k 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.
Against its field
PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $246k on record — $246k federal, $10 state.
- Department of Defense$246k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $10
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 PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 109 related entities
- Abington Health Foundation · exempt
- Abington Memorial Hospital · exempt
- Albert Einstein Medical Center · exempt
- Aria Health Orthopaedics · exempt
- Aria Health Physician Services · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY?
- PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,154,150 to it, the largest being BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ($663,882). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,154,150 in grants to PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY?
- BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $663,882 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA UNIVERSITY 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 51 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