Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,556,373 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($615,490). 52 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
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 85
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $68M
What West Chester University Foundation does
Mission
The foundation was formed to promote the charitable, scientific, and educational interests of west chester university. It achieves this purpose by soliciting funds and other property in accordance with priorities established by the university.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation's program service accomplishments during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the foundation raised more than $13 million in contributions in support of west chester university. This total included $5.9 million in outright gifts and $7.1 million in future commitments.of the $5.9 million in outright gifts, more than $2.1 million was designated for endowments to provide long-term support for student scholarships and university programs and activities. Over $3.7 million was designated for current-use purposes, supporting student scholarships and university programming.during the fiscal year, approximately $2 million in scholarships was awarded to nearly 1,200 students based on donor-established criteria. For many recipients, these scholarships made it possible to access and benefit from a high-quality education at west chester university, opportunities that would not have been attainable without this financial support.
$5,783,175 spentof which $3,978,746 as grants$4,986,963 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,783,175.
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 2023 to 2024, from $56M to $66M (+17%).
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 0% · 2022 4% · 2023 5% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Debra Cornelius
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $509k → $1.5M.
22 of 85 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest University Student Housing). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 85 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
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 8% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
60% 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 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 28% · 2019 24% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 33% — 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
49% of WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION'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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 23 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- University Student Housing LLC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 85 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,556,373 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($615,490). 52 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 WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 85 organizations giving $7,556,373 in grants to WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 52 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $615,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 85 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