Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RSVP Volunteers
RSVP Volunteers (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,628 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($508,413). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $850k
What RSVP Volunteers does
Mission
RSVP is a 501(c)3 nonprofit with over 50 years program management experience utilizing over 1,000 volunteers. RSVP Volunteers creates and runs unique community programs powered by skilled volunteers to advance education and wellness for all ages and strengthens nonprofits through capacity building and volunteer services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
RSVPs Digital Literacy Program provides adults with essential technology skills to navigate daily life and access critical services, and succeed in todays workforce. Trained volunteers offer one-on-one and group instruction on using devices such as smartphones tablets, and computers. Participants learn to use email, browse the internet safely, attend virtual meetings,search for jobs, complete online applications, and more, supporting greater independence and digital confidence. In 2025 the program served 827 individuals. 93% of clients report they are more confident in using their device (75% much more confident) after participating in the program.
$258,090 spent31% of program spendingRSVPs Elementary Literacy Program trains volunteers as literacy coaches to help children in grades kindergarten through 5th grade. Volunteers provide guided reading for students in need of academic support to help them improve their reading abilities and literacy skills. The program supports students in person during school, as well as virtually afterschool and in the summer months. Teachers report 92% of students improved reading comprehension and 86% improved fluency as a result of working with RSVP volunteers.
$158,585 spent19% of program spendingRSVPs MY Free Tutor Program provides virtual, one-on-one math tutoring and STEM career awareness to students with academic needs. Trained volunteer math coaches are matched with the same student for an entire semester, offering consistent academic support and mentorship. A diagnostic math program is used at the start of tutoring to identify specific fundamental concepts the student needs to strengthen, allowing for a targeted, individualized approach. Students receive one hour of tutoring per week, with a focus on building math confidence and core skills. The program serves students from 3rd grade through college, as well as veterans returning to school. STEM career presentations introduce students to a wide range of potential career paths. In 2025, 94% of participants improved their understanding of subject matter and 82% improved math grades.
$98,635 spent12% of program spendingRSVPs PA MEDI program matches community members with counselors (RSVP volunteers) who offer free, easy-to- understand information about the best Medicare plans for health coverage, without bias. RSVP PA MEDI volunteers attend extensive training through the State of Pennsylvania to become specialists authorized to provide the service. Counselors have a thorough understanding of navigating the Medicare system including enrollment coverage options, financial assistance programs, appeals, and more. Counselors help community members navigate the Medicare system with a customized approach based on the persons income and health circumstances
$114,320 spent14% of program spendingRSVPs Family Literacy Program is a multifaceted approach to early literacy. Collaborating with Head Start, RSVP provides program materials and trained volunteers for Head Start Pre-K classrooms. Volunteers read books to Head Start preschoolers helping develop their reading skills and prepare them for learning. To increase access to books at home, each child is gifted six new books a year along with parent reading tips. Additionally, parent workshops are offered to help parents understand the importance of reading with their young children.
$78,548 spent9% of program spendingVolunteer Executive Consultant program provides highly skilled volunteers with business and professional experience to help small and mid-sized nonprofit agencies in the community with projects and strategic planning to build their capacity and enhance their service delivery through consultations and management assistance. In addition, VEC provides educational workshops for nonprofit leaders.
$60,058 spent7% of program spendingRSVPs Volunteer Services program recruits, screens, interviews and places volunteers with over 150 nonprofit partners to help improve their their capacity to serve the community
$62,089 spent7% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $830,325.
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 2024 to 2025, from $696k to $925k (+33%).
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 63% · 2018 63% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 59% · 2022 59% · 2023 66% · 2024 63% · 2025 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Michele Moll
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $94k → $277k.
6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 RSVP Volunteers’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
RSVP Volunteers leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 RSVP Volunteers.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 47% · 2019 40% · 2020 49% · 2021 62% · 2022 66% · 2023 46% — 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
44% of RSVP Volunteers'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
83% of RSVP Volunteers's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k 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.
Government funding RSVP Volunteers receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$3.4M
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 RSVP Volunteers
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RSVP Volunteers: 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 RSVP Volunteers?
- RSVP Volunteers (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,242,628 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ($508,413). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RSVP Volunteers have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,242,628 in grants to RSVP Volunteers, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RSVP Volunteers?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY is the largest funder on record, with $508,413 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RSVP Volunteers 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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing