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THE PAI CORPORATION

THE PAI CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,527 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($238,727). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$24M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$471k
Net assets
$19M
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What The Pai Corporation does

Mission

To provide support for people with developmental needs through early childhood, residential, and day services to enable people with developmental needs to live as independently and fully as they desire within the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Residential services for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Provided services to over 85 individuals.

    $15,974,290 spentof which $525,000 as grants$18,708,011 earned by the program
    79% of program spending
  2. Life enrichment services center-based and community-based services for individuals with intellectual disabilities. Provided services to over 120 individuals.

    $2,231,880 spent$2,613,828 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Early childhood services, comprising therapy, preschool, and transportation. Provided services to over 400 individuals.

    $1,973,580 spent$2,311,323 earned by the program
    10% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,179,750.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($17M) Expenses 100 ($17M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 110 ($18M) Expenses 99 ($17M) Net assets 162 ($4.2M)2019 Revenue 131 ($22M) Expenses 123 ($21M) Net assets 198 ($5.1M)2020 Revenue 134 ($23M) Expenses 132 ($23M) Net assets 197 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 127 ($21M) Expenses 118 ($20M) Net assets 243 ($6.3M)2022 Revenue 153 ($26M) Expenses 119 ($20M) Net assets 448 ($12M)2023 Revenue 172 ($29M) Expenses 130 ($22M) Net assets 707 ($18M)2024 Revenue 145 ($24M) Expenses 134 ($23M) Net assets 766 ($20M)2025 Revenue 144 ($24M) Expenses 146 ($25M) Net assets 738 ($19M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (146)Net assets (738)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $21M (+35%).

$5.7M
$7.2M
$8.3M
$12M
$13M
$16M
$21M
$23M
$22M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of THE PAI CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$284k
’17
$1.6M
’18
$910k
’19
−$6k
’20
$1.2M
’21
$5.3M
’22
$6.7M
’23
$1.5M
’24
−$746k
’25
3.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Christopher A Shaak

Chief executive officer

Board chair

Lucy Dowd

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed191717171917202317
Joined·+6+7+5+7+6+6+6+1
No longer listed·87558337
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $37k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $88k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Aspire Foundation for Excentia Human Services). These are real filings, and they are not money THE PAI CORPORATION raised.

From the IRS filings of THE PAI CORPORATION’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 PAI CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 PAI CORPORATION.

51%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 51% · 2023 65% — 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 PAI CORPORATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

57% of THE PAI CORPORATION'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 $204k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $267k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE PAI CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like THE PAI CORPORATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Aspire Foundation for Excentia Human Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE PAI CORPORATION?
THE PAI CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $470,527 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($238,727). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE PAI CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $470,527 in grants to THE PAI CORPORATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PAI CORPORATION?
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $238,727 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PAI CORPORATION 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 10 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