Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SCHOOL OF LIVING
SCHOOL OF LIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,086 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $51k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $43k
- Net assets
- $861k
What School of Living does
Mission
School of Living is an educational organization that explores solutions to the challenges of living, holds land in trust for present and future generations, promotes personal empowerment, and supports the development of just and sustainable communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In 2025, our fiscally sponsored project Auphir Education, was transferred to Federation of Intentional Communities (FIC), a 501(c)3 corporation. This was done at the request and under the direction of the project's lead member. FIC is an organization with which we have common interests and an ongoing relationship.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
In 2025 the Heathcote Care Farm and Education Center (HEC) offered 11 educational events serving a total of 72 participants. HEC's main educational program was a series of 7 Community Days attended by 30 people featuring hands-on learning projects, a potluck, a community tour, and a visit to the Black Locust Hops Farm Brewery next door to Heathcote. HEC hosted 1 Rain Barrel workshop facilitated by the Gunpowder Valley Conservancy for 6 participants and a tour of the property for 7 farmers who had attended the BIPOC Farmer's Conference. In addition, HEC was a co-sponsor with the Chesapeake Education Arts and Research Society (CHEARS) of a North American Analog Forestry Certification course and internship program facilitated by the International Analog Forestry Network (IAFN.) It consisted of 8 online classes and an internship for hands-on experience at one of four analog forestry host sites for 21 participants. Three participants did their internship at Heathcote. The second annual Honoring of the Land Ceremony took place on Sept. 22, 2025, facilitated by the Spiritual Center for Indigenous Living, and was attended by 8 participants.
$13,359 spent$24,682 earned by the program65% of program spendingSchool of Living's Community Land Trust (CLT) involves 6 parcels of land in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia. Each parcel supports a residential community that involves a living and learning center, demonstrating and teaching cooperative community living, ecology and conservation, sustainable development, and natural living. In 2025, we continued to work on developing a new lease for our Amherst County, Virginia parcel. Our intention has been to lease this parcel to Stellar Roots, a collective of Black, Brown, and Indigenous People, rooted in healing and in service of land based community living. We also followed up on supporting our other parcels in the Land Trust; helping to solve disputes among parties and updating legal documents. Another focus of School of Living's CLT is public outreach and follow-up with outside inquiries to our CLT.
$6,254 spent$11,679 earned by the program31% of program spendingIn 2025, School of Living's Administration Committee supported our public education projects by registering with the charitable solicitation agencies of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. These registrations were mandated steps in allowing our projects to solicit funds from citizens and apply for corporate and governmental grants to support their work.
$800 spent$223 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,413.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $807k to $851k (+6%).
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.
50% of SCHOOL OF LIVING’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28 → $24.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 SCHOOL OF LIVING’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
SCHOOL OF LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 SCHOOL OF LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
77% of SCHOOL OF LIVING'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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SCHOOL OF LIVING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,195 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SCHOOL OF LIVING
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOOL OF LIVING: 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 SCHOOL OF LIVING?
- SCHOOL OF LIVING (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,086 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SCHOOL OF LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $43,086 in grants to SCHOOL OF LIVING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOOL OF LIVING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOOL OF LIVING 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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