Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 463 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,786,851 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($20,557,775). 267 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
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.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Idsa Education and Research Foundationportfolio match
- The Computing Research Association Incshared funders
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 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 202 funders, grant income rose $10M → $31M.
38 of 463 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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: $14M from 33 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest 1889 Foundation Inc); $1.3M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Avalon Network Inc); $9k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Thomas Jefferson University). These are real filings, and they are not money THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY raised.
From the IRS filings of THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 463 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
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 17 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 17 funders to its left
54% 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 19% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 22% · 2022 12% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.
“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
42% of THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 463 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 141 organizations that share your funders
- Idsa Education and Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Computing Research Association Incshared fundersDC · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Blood Cancer United Incshared fundersDC · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Brightfocus Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 107 organizations that share your funders
- Huntington's Disease Society of America Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- American Federation for Aging Research Incshared fundersNY · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- The Broad Institute Incshared fundersMA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 98 organizations that share your funders
- The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Incshared fundersTX · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Breakthrough T1dshared fundersNY · backs 114 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $823.9M on record — $818.2M federal, $5.7M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$737.6M
- Department of Defense$48.2M
- Department of Education$26.1M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$2.4M
- National Science Foundation$1.4M
- Department of Energy$1.3M
- DE$5.0M
- NJ$698k
- FL$3k
- OK$549
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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 117 related entities
- 925 Walnut Holding LLC · disregarded
- Tju Fairwater LLC · disregarded
- Jefferson Horizon Research LLC · disregarded
- Jeffcare Alliance LLC · disregarded
- Tj-Nonqualified LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: 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 THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY?
- THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 463 organizations whose IRS filings report $183,786,851 to it, the largest being Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program ($20,557,775). 267 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 463 organizations giving $183,786,851 in grants to THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY, 267 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY?
- Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program is the largest funder on record, with $20,557,775 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY 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 463funders 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