Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,739,413 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($10,160,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $62M
What The College of Physicians of Philadelphia does
Mission
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia advances the cause of health, while upholding the ideals and heritage of medicine
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Library expenditures incurred to maintain an extensive historical medical library used for various research projects. The library is one of the world's premier collection of rare books and independent libraries devoted to the history of medicine.
$630,485 spent12% of program spendingMuseum exhibits open to medical students, the general public, health care professionals, and students of all ages for purposes of education and research. The museum is home to over 20,000 objects including medical instruments, specimens, medical illustrations, and memoribilia of outstanding physicians and scientists.
$2,986,959 spent$2,121,564 earned by the program57% of program spendingEducational seminars, fellowship, and events. Various informational projects and educational seminars provided to specific user groups and the public. The fellowship program is comprised of close to 1,000 established leaders in the fields of medicine, law, and business. Educational seminars cover a wide range of current topics and issues for the benefit of both health professionals and the general public
$1,604,352 spent$333,315 earned by the program31% of program spendingPublic health and education: george & judy wohlreich junior fellows is a summer afterschool program aimed at under resourced phila. High school students to follow career paths in healthcare and medicine. Girls one diaspora club is an after-school internship program for teen girls in phila who are from africa or were born outside the us and have an interest in healthcare or stem careers. Out4stem is an after-school internship program that aims to provide phila. Lgbtqia youth with healthcare and stem oriented instruction, mentoring and academic support. Stem internship is a (science, technology, engineering & math) and social justice program for phila high school students who have been impacted by community violence. History of vaccines.org explores the heritage, development and use of vaccines throughout history in a dynamic internet-based format.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,221,796.
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 2023 to 2024, from $53M to $66M (+25%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Erica R Thaler Md
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $1.2M → $413k.
9 of 41 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 THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 91% · 2019 65% · 2020 77% · 2021 72% · 2022 31% · 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
50% of THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 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 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.
Government funding THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $301k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$301k
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 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA
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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA?
- THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,739,413 to it, the largest being HESS FOUNDATION INC ($10,160,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $14,739,413 in grants to THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA?
- HESS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS 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 41 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