Wyncote Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263535044
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Phone
- 2155579577
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $33,262,488
- Expenses
- $28,355,050
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 139 grants totaling $26,273,216. The stated grant purposes included support for ongoing programs, support for current, and support for specific pictures, plus 16 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 96% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filing identifies who received its grants. The filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 93
- Cost Efficiency: 89
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 94
- Endowment Health: 64
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 17 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Fail
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 23.96; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: 92.8% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 64th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 155 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: 2 of 19 not reported.