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WILLIAM PENN HOUSE

WILLIAM PENN HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,188,964 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$433k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$1.2M
Grants received
$-464436
Net assets
2/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%

Against its field

WILLIAM PENN HOUSE is better cushioned than half of the 15,926 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−69% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,926 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($360k) Expenses 100 ($381k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2018 Revenue 89 ($321k) Expenses 96 ($366k) Net assets -7 ($-2782)2019 Revenue 83 ($298k) Expenses 95 ($364k) Net assets -177 ($-68012)2020 Revenue 241 ($867k) Expenses 71 ($269k) Net assets 1378 ($530k)2021 Revenue 96 ($345k) Expenses 40 ($151k) Net assets 1883 ($724k)2022 Revenue 134 ($482k) Expenses 177 ($676k) Net assets 1377 ($529k)2023 Revenue 160 ($574k) Expenses 206 ($787k) Net assets 824 ($317k)2024 Revenue 89 ($319k) Expenses 210 ($801k) Net assets -429 ($-164911)2025 Revenue 120 ($433k) Expenses 192 ($732k) Net assets -1208 ($-464436)
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Revenue (120)Expenses (192)Net assets (-1208)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

18% of WILLIAM PENN HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,851 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
17
$45k
18
$65k
19
$598k
20
$194k
21
$194k
22
$213k
23
$481k
24
$300k
25
6.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $250k.

5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)54% 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 WILLIAM PENN HOUSE’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

WILLIAM PENN HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 WILLIAM PENN HOUSE.

46%
largest funder
97%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 97% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%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

0% of WILLIAM PENN HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

54% of WILLIAM PENN HOUSE'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 $550k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states.

CA
NE
VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
22
23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 WILLIAM PENN HOUSE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $362 on record.

State$362
Top programs
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $362

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 WILLIAM PENN HOUSE

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 Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 24%Fundraising 3%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

70%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 27 states

NH
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Friends Committee on National Legislation · exempt
  • Fcnl Education Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAM PENN HOUSE: 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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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 WILLIAM PENN HOUSE?
WILLIAM PENN HOUSE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,188,964 to it, the largest being Fulk Family Foundation Inc ($550,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WILLIAM PENN HOUSE have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,188,964 in grants to WILLIAM PENN HOUSE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM PENN HOUSE?
Fulk Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WILLIAM PENN HOUSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 8funders 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