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CORE SCHOLARS

EIN 23-0355320 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Largest nonprofits in Pennsylvania

Revenue 2025
$237,942
Expenses 2025
$266,430

Program services were 83.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B82
Classification
1000
Street
1900 MARKET ST FL 8-148

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION ("CORE") IS A NONPROFIT CORPORATION FOUNDED IN PHILADELPHIA, PA IN 2003. CORE WAS ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND COLLEGE PREP ASSISTANCE TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. CORE SCHOLARSHIPS ARE ONLY APPLICABLE TO STUDENTS WHO RESIDE IN PHILADELPHIA. CORE IS A NONPROFIT INITIATIVE DESIGNED TO UNITE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE GOAL OF ENSURING THAT ALL CHILDREN HAVE ACCESS TO COLLEGE. CORE'S PREMIER PROGRAM, THE RISE FINANCIAL LITERACY SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM, IS A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND PROGRAM THAT OFFERS ALL HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS - WHETHER FROM PUBLIC, PRIVATE CHARTER OR PAROCHIAL SYSTEMS - IN PHILADELPHIA A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND ACCREDITED COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. CORE ISSUES AWARDS BASED ON THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS AVAILABLE FOR SCHOLARSHIPS. CORE IS PRIMARILY SUPPORTED BY A CHARITABLE TRUST AND GRANTS FROM FEDERAL ENTITIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION (CORE) IS DEDICATED TO UNITING COMMUNITIES AROUND THE GOAL OF ENSURING THAT POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IS AFFORDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL. CORE SCHOLARS IS THE FIRST SCHOLARSHIP OF ITS KIND TO FOCUS SPECIFICALLY ON HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS -WHETHER FROM THE PUBLIC, PRIVATE, CHARTER, OR PAROCHIAL SYSTEMS LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT (IDA) SAVINGS PROGRAM. OVER THE PAST NINE YEARS, CORE HAS AWARDED OVER 25,669 PHILADELPHIA STUDENTS A TOTAL OF MORE THAN 30 MILLION DOLLARS. OF OUR ORIGINAL GROUP OF CORE SCHOLARS, 58% ULTIMATELY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE OVER SIX YEARS.

  • CORE PROVIDE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS TO PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ARE ENROLLED FULL TIME AS A GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR, AND STUDENTS ATTENDING A PHILADELPHIA 2 OR 4-YEAR COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, OR TRADE SCHOOL; ALSO PROVIDED A STEADY FLOW OF COLLEGE PREP RESOURCE INFORMATION AND IMPORTANT FINANCIAL AID/COLLEGE APPLICATION DEADLINE ANNOUNCEMENTS TARGETED TO GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS AND COLLEGE STUDENTS. THE RISE FINANCIAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM IS OPEN TO ALL PHILADELPHIA RESIDENT PUBLIC, PRIVATE, CHARTER, OR PAROCHIAL SCHOOL STUDENTS. THE SCHOLARSHIP RECEIPIENTS ARE AWARDED THE RISE FINANCIAL LITERACY SCHOLARSHIP'S AMOUNT AFTER THEIR RISE APPLICATION IS COMPLETE AND APPROVED BY CORE. VERIFICATION/CONFIRMATION OF FULL TIME ATTENDANCE AT AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION IS PROVIDED BY THE EDUCATION INSTITUION'S FINANCIAL AID OFFICE. THE AWARD CHECK IS SENT DIRECTLY TO THE EDUCATION INSTITUTION ON THE STUDENT'S BEHALF. THE EDUCATION INSTITUTION THEN APPLIES THE SCHOLARSHIP TO THE STUDENT'S ACCOUNT BALANCE. NO SCHOLARSHIP AWARD CHECKS ARE GIVEN TO STUDENTS DIRECTLY. ALL CHECKS GO DIRECTLY TO THE INSTITUTIONS THEMSELVES.

    Expenses $77,500 · Grants $77,500

  • PROVIDED SCHOLARSHIPS FOR UNDER-SERVED YOUTH IN PHILADELPHIA AREA.

    Expenses $145,567

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Tucker

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Donyale Reavis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Naomi Nelson

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $237,942
    Expenses
    $266,430
    Contributions
    $237,942
    Grants paid
    $77,500
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $243,146
    Expenses
    $253,854
    Contributions
    $242,246
    Grants paid
    $52,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $247,336
    Expenses
    $215,187
    Contributions
    $241,431
    Grants paid
    $30,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $232,915
    Expenses
    $233,566
    Contributions
    $232,903
    Grants paid
    $40,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $390,923
    Expenses
    $246,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,821,484

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $44,624
    Expenses
    $222,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,421,678

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $349,164
    Expenses
    $127,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,477,018

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $401,751
    Expenses
    $381,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,773,773

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $305,239
    Expenses
    $406,205
    Assets (EOY)
    $221,017

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2018.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.