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Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

EIN 23-3078729Education Pennsylvania Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Hope, Opportunity, Success

Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP) is a privately-funded program, established in 1998, whose mission is to broaden educational opportunities for K-8th grade students from low-income families in Philadelphia by providing them with tuition assistance. These four-year scholarships are need-based and awarded by random lottery. Currently, approximately 5,200 children have a CSFP scholarship to attend a private, parochial or other tuition-based community school. CSFP has awarded over 24,500 scholarships chosen from 175,000 applications in the last seventeen years.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

98.87Overall score
out of 100

98.41Financial score
out of 100

100.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$13,968,589

Total expenses · USD$11,496,186

Program expenses

$10,806,414.84 recorded amount

94.0%

Fundraising expenses

$413,862.70 recorded amount

3.6%

Administrative expenses

$264,412.28 recorded amount

2.3%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.04 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Ina Lipman
Recorded compensation: $199,673.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 1.73%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	100.0
`category` Category	Education
`description` Mission & description	Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia (CSFP) is a privately-funded program, established in 1998, whose mission is to broaden educational opportunities for K-8th grade students from low-income families in Philadelphia by providing them with tuition assistance. These four-year scholarships are need-based and awarded by random lottery. Currently, approximately 5,200 children have a CSFP scholarship to attend a private, parochial or other tuition-based community school. CSFP has awarded over 24,500 scholarships chosen from 175,000 applications in the last seventeen years.
`ein` EIN	23-3078729
`tot_exp` Total expenses	11496186.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.023
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.04
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.036000000000000004
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.94
`fscore` Financial score	98.41
`leader` Recorded leader	Ina Lipman
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	199673.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0173
`motto` Tagline	Hope, Opportunity, Success
`name` Charity name	Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia
`tot_rev` Total revenue	13968589.0
`score` Overall score	98.87
`state` State code	PA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Scholarship and Financial Support
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	10806414.84
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	413862.69600000005
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	264412.278

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 23-3078729
Source category: Education
Source subcategory: Scholarship and Financial Support
Recorded location: Pennsylvania (PA)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.