Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,049 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($208,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $545k
- Net assets
- $501k
What The Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement does
Mission
The rendell center promotes civic education and engagement. To accomplish this, the center offers opportunities for educators and students to develop knowledge, practices and dispositions of engaged citizenship. For educators, the center creates curriculum content, pedagogical tools, and professional development experiences. The rendell center also provides to students of all ages and grade levels opportunities, events, and spaces for dialogue about and engagement with issues of citizens and civics.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The rendell center conducts professional development programs for teachers including webinars, one and two day workshops and summer teacher institutes on the first amendment and the constitution. Programs are dependent on grant funds. In the summer of 2024, the rendell center conducted a summer teacher institute on the bill of rights for 30 teachers from across the united states.
$31,271 spent15% of program spendingThe Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement is continuing to develop k-12 civics curriculum entitled "we the civics kids" as well as other curricula and pedagogical tools that assist educators in the promotion of civic education and active citizenship among students. The largest program is our literature based mock trial initiative, which continues to expand, serving over 1400 students and 49 classes. An offshoot of the literature based mock trial program is our read aloud initiative which continues to expand with monthly read alouds during the school year.in 2025, the program served 323 classes and 9700 students.
$103,143 spent49% of program spendingThe rendell center is also partnering with the annenberg public policy center of the university of pennsylvania on judicial independence. Work includes podcasts, webinars and professional development programs for teachers, as well as development of a course and programming on the first amendment for community college students.
$49,816 spent24% of program spendingThe Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement hosts a yearly competition entitled the citizenship challenge. The competition is an essay contest for 4th and 5th graders in the philadelphia and pittsburgh area and encourages students to get involved by submitting essays on various constitutional issues facing our democracy. Cash and curriculum prizes are awarded to the classrooms of the top entries. In 2025, the center had students from across the commonwealth competing in the in person finals at the national constitution center. Over 200 essays were submitted.The Rendell Center for Civics and Civic Engagement also offers opportunities for educators and students to develop knowledge, practices and dispositions of engaged citizenship. These include the organization of speaking engagements, experiential learning activities as well as professional development opportunities for teachers including webinars and workshops. For the general public and those interested in civics education the rendell center conducts webinars and educational symposiums.
$27,726 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $211,956.
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 2019 to 2020, from $300k to $404k (+35%).
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: 2019 6% · 2020 17% · 2021 16% · 2022 30% · 2023 12% · 2024 17% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $15k → $82k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT’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 RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 60% · 2020 41% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 63% — 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
25% of THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
55% of THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT'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 $243k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $302k 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.
Against its field
THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $545k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $353k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$353k
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 RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,049 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($208,250). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $545,049 in grants to THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $208,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RENDELL CENTER FOR CIVICS AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 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 17 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