Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WIDENER UNIVERSITY
WIDENER UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,053,482 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYERS TRUST ACCOUNT BOARD ($1,244,600). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WIDENER UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half 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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- V E & Betty Phillips Scholarship Fundportfolio match
- Virginia E Stauffer Scholarship 51portfolio 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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 3% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of WIDENER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $320k → $880k.
19 of 133 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 133 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
WIDENER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
65% 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 13% · 2021 22% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of WIDENER UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
75% of WIDENER UNIVERSITY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 133 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 99 organizations that share your funders
- V E & Betty Phillips Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia E Stauffer Scholarship 51portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George E Gordy Family Educational Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hill Ruth a - Uiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Aid of Penn Central Sch Iasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Otto Ruth Varner-Seneca Valley Highportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Van Horne E for Educational Fdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T Manning Curtis Athletic Scholarship Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 136 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.4M on record — $26.4M federal, $1.0M state.
- Department of Education$15.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$7.9M
- National Science Foundation$2.5M
- Department of Justice$399k
- Department of Defense$225k
- Environmental Protection Agency$90k
- DE$856k
- NJ$173k
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 WIDENER 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- The Neuropsychology Assessment Center · exempt
- Providence Enterprises Inc · corp_trust
- Pioneer Pub of Widener Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WIDENER 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 WIDENER UNIVERSITY?
- WIDENER UNIVERSITY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 133 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,053,482 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYERS TRUST ACCOUNT BOARD ($1,244,600). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WIDENER UNIVERSITY have?
- IRS filings report 133 organizations giving $7,053,482 in grants to WIDENER UNIVERSITY, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WIDENER UNIVERSITY?
- PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYERS TRUST ACCOUNT BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $1,244,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WIDENER 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 133funders 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