Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,539,156 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($105,420,281). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 27 funders to 49 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 650 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared funders
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Incportfolio match
- American Theatre Wing Incportfolio match
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.
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 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 2% · 2021 4% · 2022 5% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $13M → $16M.
14 of 101 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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: $707k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The University of the Arts). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 101 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 96% · 2019 94% · 2020 90% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 81% — 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
41% of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
99% of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 101 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 40 organizations that share your funders
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Theatre Wing Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angelo Donghia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Americana Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Liu Shiming Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stockman Family Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R D Cundiff Scholarship Trust Dtd 10121portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lyrasisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The Julian a and Lois G Brodsky Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9.6M on record — $9.3M federal, $274k state.
- Department of Education$9.3M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
- NJ$254k
- DE$18k
- CT$2k
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 UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Viola Foulke Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS?
- THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 101 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,539,156 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($105,420,281). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 101 organizations giving $115,539,156 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $105,420,281 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 101funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing