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Comcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Lives

Comcast spectacor charities, which includes flyers charities and wings charities, cares about and invests in the health of our community by: honoring our legacy of supporting local families impacted by cancer; growing our game inclusive of new and diverse participants and audiences; supporting continuous improvements in sustainability…

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.6MHealth$1.4MEducation$442kHuman Services$326kFood & Nutrition$321kCommunity Improvement$113kPhilanthropy$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $1,203,444, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,279,725 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,281 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $322k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $553k
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$11,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education$301,660
Ryan's Case for Smiles$230,000
Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Association Inc$100,000
Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau Founda$95,000
Leveling the Playing Field Inc$77,500
Archbishop Damiano School$50,000
Mazzoni Center$35,000
Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education$30,000
Ryan's Case for Smiles$27,500
University of Pennsylvania$25,000
Dear Jack Foundation$20,000
American Red Cross$16,000
Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Association Inc$15,400
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Philadelphi$15,000
Chamber of Commerce Greater Philadelphia$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BEAU BIDEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HOPE LOVES COMPANY: $20k → 11%USA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY: $25k → 8%USA WARRIORS ICE HOCKEY: $7k → 8%Ryan's Case for Smiles: $230k → 6%Ryan's Case for Smiles: $28k → 6%IT TAKES PHILLY - BLACK DOCTORS CONSORTIUM: $10k → 7%Ryan's Case for Smiles: $25k → 6%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YMCA: $25k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
49

Total granted

$4.9M
$922k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+1%

Still filing today

95%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $164k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • ES
    ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +76%
  • ES
    ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $613k · revenue +41%
  • Philabundance
    7× · 2017–2025 · $321k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • CS
    Comcast Spectacor LLC (Ridley rink)
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • PE
    PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED
    one grant, 2023 · $85k · revenue -10%
  • MC
    MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Police Athletic League of Philadelphia
Youth Development
4
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation

Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.

Community Improvement
5
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.

Health
6
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
7
Greater Philadelphia Cancer Foundation - Honor of Barbara Colameco
Health
8
Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital & Technologies

Greater philadelphia alliance for capital and technologies (pact)'s vision is to be a premier resource for emerging growth companies in the information technology, clean technology, and life sciences industries. pact connects emerging…

Membership Benefit
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
Phillies Charities Inc

Established exclusively for charitable purposes particularly raising contributions and payment of contributions to organizations described as exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

Philanthropy
11
Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative

The mission of philadelphia youth sports collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every…

Philanthropy
12
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy

The parker institute for cancer immunotherapy's (pici) mission is to develop and accelerate access to breakthrough cancer therapies, curating innovation from discovery to patient access.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley; the most unlike its peers is Hammerheads Sled Hockey Associationinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
52/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $1,727,279 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATIONED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION INC: $612,887 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION INCPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $167,500 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INCPHILADELPHIA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Recreation & Sports+9 more: $144,001 · Recreation & SportsPOTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $200,000 · HealthPOTTSTOWN REGION…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $133,209 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER …MICHAEL'S WAY: $100,000 · HealthMICHAEL'S WAYSIMON'S FUND: $62,673 · HealthSIMON'S FUNDBRINGING HOPE HOME: $57,000 · HealthBRINGING HOPE HO…THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $51,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTI…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 · HealthVINCERA FOUNDATION: $37,000 · Health+18 more: $252,958 · Health+18 moreComcast Spectacor LLC (Ridley rink): $100,000 · OtherComcast Spectacor …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $97,528 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HO…MAZZONI CENTER: $71,000 · OtherMAZZONI CENTERPHILADELPHIA FUTURES FOR YOUTH: $60,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA FUTUR…USO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey Inc: $54,858 · OtherUSO of Pennsylvani…ARCHBISHOP DAMIANO SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherMID ATLANTIC AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · OtherSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $52,420 · OtherYOU CAN PLAY: $37,095 · Other+31 more: $453,598 · Other+31 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 · EducationPhiladelphia Flyers Alumni Association: $134,900 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $54,800 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $282,500 · Human ServicesUSA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc USAWIHP: $32,390 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 · Human ServicesHope Loves Company Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesPhilabundance: $321,000 · Food & NutritionPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Recreation & Sports$3,011,667Health$933,840Other$1,021,499Education$421,700Human Services$395,890Food & Nutrition$321,000Youth Development$229,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION: $1,727,279 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION INC: $612,887 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPhilabundance: $321,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $282,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $250,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetPOTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $200,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $167,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Flyers Alumni Association: $134,900 over 3y, 47% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $133,209 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetMICHAEL'S WAY: $100,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $97,528 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $85,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOUNDATION INC: $72,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMAZZONI CENTER: $71,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON'S FUND: $62,673 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetBRINGING HOPE HOME: $57,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetUSO of Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey Inc: $54,858 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $54,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $52,420 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $51,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMID ATLANTIC AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH PENGUINS ELITE AMATEUR HOCKEY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOU CAN PLAY: $37,095 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetVINCERA FOUNDATION: $37,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetUSA Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc USAWIHP: $32,390 over 2y, 14% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Autism: $28,905 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $23,616 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAMMERHEADS SLED HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONINC: $20,001 over 2y, 11% of budgetHope Loves Company Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA UNION FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA VETERANS COMFORT HOUSE CORP: $15,000 over 2y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…Future Standard Found…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Wawa Foundation I…The Snider FoundationThe Neubauer Family F…Phillies Charities IncLincoln Financial Fou…Ibew Local #98 Labor …International Brother…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA34.7× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Wawa Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Phillies Charities Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ibew Local #98 Labor Management Cooperative Committee Inc · International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers #98

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Comcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Lives funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Comcast Spectacor Charities Flyers Wives Fight For Lives. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Usa Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc Usawihp: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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