Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL
THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,757,588 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($2,757,707). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $30M
What The Philadelphia School does
Mission
The Philadelphia School educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. Learn here. Go anywhere.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education for students from preschool to 8th grade; 41 preschool, 52 kindergarten, 91 primary unit (grades 1-2), 132 junior unit (grades 3-5), 95 middle school (grades 6-8).The Philadelphia School (tps) opened its doors to its first students over 50 years ago. A leader in the philadelphia educational landscape, tps has come to be known over time for three distinctive and unique features: we are progressive, our classroom is everywhere, and we are preschool through eighth grade by design. We know that learning happens everywhere - in the city, in the country, and in the classroom. Connecting lessons to the real world helps children understand how they fit into the big picture and learn how to advocate for themselves and others. Tps graduates emerge as self-confident leaders more than prepared not only for the next steps of their educational journey, but to shape the world in important and meaningful ways. We've always thought outside of the classroom. We'll be doing the same for the next 50 years.The Philadelphia School's progressive educational approach has deep thinking, innovation, and agency as its guiding principles. We encourage children to explore and push the boundaries of…
$12,541,187 spentof which $2,386,792 as grants$13,975,067 earned by the program90% of program spendingAuxiliary programming for students including, but not limited to music, chess, sports, clubs, and summer camp.
$1,448,473 spentof which $111,653 as grants$1,425,307 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,989,660.
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 2022 to 2023, from $27M to $30M (+11%).
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 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $176k → $1.4M.
13 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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 SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 43% · 2019 53% · 2020 58% · 2021 63% · 2022 65% · 2023 29% — 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
56% of THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
98% of THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL: 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 SCHOOL?
- THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,757,588 to it, the largest being DREXEL UNIVERSITY ($2,757,707). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $7,757,588 in grants to THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL?
- DREXEL UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $2,757,707 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL 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 40 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