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THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,742,323 to it, the largest being WOODWARD GEO JR AND HARRIET E T W ($1,674,971). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 64 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 64 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared funders
- Hu Family Foundationportfolio match
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio match
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.
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% · 2021 2% · 2022 6% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $849k → $1.7M.
10 of 86 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 86 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
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
32% 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 THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 60% · 2019 27% · 2020 15% · 2021 18% · 2022 12% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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 THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
59% of THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 86 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Hu Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Museum of Natural Historyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph E Cades Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The C K Williams Fdn Inv Adv Acctportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eshe Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goldsmith-Weiss Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert J Cummins Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Orser Jonathan Charitable Pfdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ns Goldstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leads Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Herbert R Fineburg & Lynn Rosenthal Fouportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.1M on record.
- National Science Foundation$5.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$808k
- Environmental Protection Agency$670k
- Department of the Interior$404k
- Department of State$25k
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 THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Drexel University · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 86 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,742,323 to it, the largest being WOODWARD GEO JR AND HARRIET E T W ($1,674,971). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 86 organizations giving $11,742,323 in grants to THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA?
- WOODWARD GEO JR AND HARRIET E T W is the largest funder on record, with $1,674,971 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 86funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing