Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND
THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,563,444 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($970,475). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Philadelphia Education Fund does
Mission
The mission of The Philadelphia Education Fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. Pef focuses on philadelphia public school students attending schools with low graduation, postsecondary persistence, college enrollment, and college completion rates. Pef fulfills its mission by embedding a college and career going framework in the philadelphia public school system; delivering in person, school based, and virtual supports; aligning secondary and postsecondary instruction; providing scholarship aid; and supporting students, educators, districts, and communities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct services to students: the goal of pef's direct services to students is to create pathways to college and career by equipping philadelphia public school students with the guidance, preparation, and financial resources needed to pursue postsecondary education. During the reporting period, pef provided college advising, preparatory workshops, standardized test preparation, academic enrichment, and hands on assistance to an estimated 8,000-10,000 students (estimate), in partnership with the school district of philadelphia, higher education institutions, community organizations, and businesses.pef's short term objective is to increase students' college readiness, enrollment, and affordability; its long term objective is to improve postsecondary persistence and completion for students from historically under resourced schools. Through the philadelphia scholars program, pef stewarded an endowment that awarded last dollar, gap filling scholarships to more than 100 students annually and supported recipients through workshops, mentoring, resource sharing, and assistance accessing leveraged third party scholarships. In the reporting year, pef distributed $625,000 in scholarship aid,…
$3,427,849 spentof which $719,067 as grants$1,334,464 earned by the program77% of program spendingTeaching and learning:through its teaching and learning and school services programming, pef supports schools, educators, and nonprofit partners in building college going, career ready school cultures. During the year, pef provided professional development, technical assistance, and capacity building supports to an estimated 300-400 educators and school staff.the short term objective of this work is to strengthen educator practice and align instruction with college and career expectations; the long term objective is to embed sustainable college and career going systems within philadelphia public schools. By strengthening teaching and learning environments, pef multiplies the impact of its direct student services and advances its charitable mission to improve educational outcomes citywide.
$1,049,615 spentof which $133,929 as grants23% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,477,464.
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 $9.8M to $12M (+23%).
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 22% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 26% · 2021 30% · 2022 18% · 2023 28% · 2024 23% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Farah Jimenez
President and CEO
Board chair
Asim Z Haque
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $523k → $1.1M.
12 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
48% 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 PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 25% · 2019 50% · 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 44% · 2023 38% — 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
51% of THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
70% of THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.8M on record.
- Department of Education$7.8M
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 PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND
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
88% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND: 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 PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND?
- THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,563,444 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($970,475). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $5,563,444 in grants to THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $970,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND 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 77 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