Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC
THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,549,373 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $0
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Graduate Network Inc does
Mission
The graduate network (tgn), a national nonprofit organization, was organized to catalyze movement toward educational equity for adults particularly those adults who are historically underrepresented in the college labor market. These are the 45 million individuals in the u.s. With some college credit but no degree (comebackers). Many stopped out because of a mismatch with their college or university or challenges balancing family and life issues with school, finances or debt. Today, they seek good jobs with good pay and a chance to overcome the stigma of failure. On august 31, 2023, cael announced a new strategic partnership with the graduate network to operate tgn's portfolio of products and services. Read the full announcement here. The graduate network's important work in the field endures through several of its hallmark initiatives, including bridging the talent gap and data that move us. The graduate network also has fostered long-term partnerships with a number of industry organi
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The graduate network illuminates solutions to the educational inequities facing economically vulnerable adults and activates pathways for those adults to attain their educational goals. We achieve this by amplifying lived experience through data and storytelling, co-creating models for postsecondary completion, and championing policies that contribute to a more just society.
$100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $100,000.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $173k (−88%).
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 56% · 2018 20% · 2019 30% · 2020 15% · 2021 65% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $425k → $495k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 GRADUATE NETWORK INC’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
THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 GRADUATE NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 58% · 2019 69% · 2020 39% · 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% — 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
15% of THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 GRADUATE NETWORK INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $489k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC
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
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC: 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 GRADUATE NETWORK INC?
- THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,549,373 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($1,180,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,549,373 in grants to THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GRADUATE NETWORK INC 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 15 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