Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,112,374 to it, the largest being TULL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,687,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Sewickley Academy does
Mission
Sewickley Academy's mission is to evaluate knowledge, character, and community through an intentionally extraordinary and innovative education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As pittsburgh oldest co-educational college preparatory, independent day school, Sewickley Academy prepares its students for a lifetime of success by inspiring them to reach their full potential as curious, courageous, and compassionate learners. The student body is highly diverse and reside in various school districts in the tri-state area. Exceptional programs, small classes, and talented faculty help students become conscientious leaders, critical thinkers, and responsible members of a global community. Achievements can be found at the academy's website.
$19,054,236 spentof which $6,912,431 as grants$16,783,946 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $19,054,236.
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 $87M to $76M (−12%).
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 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 19% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of SEWICKLEY ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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.
Board chair
Dennis Zeitler
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $564k → $4.1M.
11 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SEWICKLEY ACADEMY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 SEWICKLEY ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 48% · 2019 61% · 2020 65% · 2021 26% · 2022 82% · 2023 64% — 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
25% of SEWICKLEY ACADEMY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SEWICKLEY ACADEMY's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SEWICKLEY ACADEMY
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SEWICKLEY ACADEMY: 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 SEWICKLEY ACADEMY?
- SEWICKLEY ACADEMY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,112,374 to it, the largest being TULL FAMILY FOUNDATION ($6,687,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEWICKLEY ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $15,112,374 in grants to SEWICKLEY ACADEMY, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEWICKLEY ACADEMY?
- TULL FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,687,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEWICKLEY ACADEMY 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 52 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