Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,321,903 to it, the largest being WESLEY JOSEPH & MARION FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,465,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $25M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $59M
- Net assets
- $277M
What Williamson College of the Trades does
Mission
Williamson College of the Trades prepares deserving young men to be respected leaders and productive members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To accomplish the mission, williamson provides students with academic, trade, technical, moral and leadership education with a christian perspective that fosters the values of faith, integrity, diligence, excellence, and service. Through a comprehensive financial aid portfolio, the tuition, room, and boarding net cost for all students is zero. Program expenses are partially addressed by $1,598,455 in pell funding, $24,650 in fseog funding and $1,201,125 in pa state grant funding.expenses are incurred for educational training in trade and general education courses.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $186M to $226M (+22%).
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: 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 10% · 2023 5% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES’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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $461k → $4.9M.
19 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 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
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 59% · 2019 71% · 2020 70% · 2021 65% · 2022 26% · 2023 43% — 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
50% of WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
57% of WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES 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
Government funding WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record — $2.0M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Education$2.0M
- SCHOLARSHIPS$2k
- INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES$2k
- TUITION REIMBURSEMENTS$400
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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: 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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES?
- WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,321,903 to it, the largest being WESLEY JOSEPH & MARION FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,465,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $59,321,903 in grants to WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES?
- WESLEY JOSEPH & MARION FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,465,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES 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.
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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 112 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