Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
TRADEOFFS INC
TRADEOFFS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,274,541 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1,201,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TRADEOFFS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- The George Washington Universityshared funders
- Craig Newmark Foundationportfolio match
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
94% of TRADEOFFS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $315k → $727k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 TRADEOFFS INC’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
TRADEOFFS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
38% 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 TRADEOFFS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 52% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of TRADEOFFS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% 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
TRADEOFFS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $590k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Craig Newmark Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luminate Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Peter G Peterson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Constitutional Governmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Anita Keller Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pivotal Philanthropies Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for the Study of Democratic Institutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reset Techportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quadriviumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 62 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.
Organizations like TRADEOFFS INC
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 TRADEOFFS INC: 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 TRADEOFFS INC?
- TRADEOFFS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,274,541 to it, the largest being The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($1,201,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRADEOFFS INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,274,541 in grants to TRADEOFFS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRADEOFFS INC?
- The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,201,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRADEOFFS INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 15funders 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