Pennsylvania · Public charity
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia
Culturetrust's mission is to provide a charitable home and shared management resources for fiscally sponsored projects in the arts, culture, heritage and social impact sectors.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $444,457
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $1.2M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.1M | 52% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $881k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.4M | 82% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $719k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $677k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $665k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $995k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| History Making Productions | $3,411,394 | 8 | n/a |
| Monument Lab Inc | $1,215,193 | 2 | 6% |
| Bearded Ladies Cabaret | $772,327 | 4 | 35% |
| Artphilly | $339,686 | 1 | 12% |
| Presente Media LLC | $235,255 | 2 | n/a |
| Get Fresh Daily LLC | $210,980 | 2 | n/a |
| Get Fresh Daily | $177,736 | 2 | n/a |
| Shameka Sawyer | $146,164 | 3 | n/a |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | $138,625 | 2 | 0% |
| Latierra Piphus | $109,095 | 2 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| History Making Productions | $3,411,394 | 8 | n/a |
| Monument Lab Inc | $1,215,193 | 2 | 6% |
| Bearded Ladies Cabaret | $772,327 | 4 | 35% |
| Artphilly | $339,686 | 1 | 12% |
| Presente Media LLC | $235,255 | 2 | n/a |
| Get Fresh Daily LLC | $210,980 | 2 | n/a |
| Get Fresh Daily | $177,736 | 2 | n/a |
| Shameka Sawyer | $146,164 | 3 | n/a |
| Urban Affairs Coalition | $138,625 | 2 | 0% |
| Latierra Piphus | $109,095 | 2 | n/a |
| Philadelphia Futures for Youth | $89,879 | 1 | n/a |
| The Centre County Women's Resource Center | $89,249 | 2 | n/a |
| Juniper Agency LLC | $79,021 | 3 | n/a |
| Red Pen Arts LLC | $73,066 | 3 | n/a |
| Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation | $61,766 | 3 | 2% |
| Land Health Institute | $52,700 | 1 | 25% |
| Urbanpromise Ministries | $52,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Kristal Sotomayor | $43,165 | 3 | n/a |
| Asian Americans United Inc | $42,100 | 3 | 2% |
| Black and Brown Workers Cooperative | $41,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Aquatic Sciences | $39,744 | 2 | 1% |
| Sotomayor Productions Development LLC | $36,559 | 2 | n/a |
| Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia | $36,094 | 2 | 0% |
| Discovery Pathways | $34,510 | 2 | 8% |
| Gapura | $31,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Moder Patshala | $30,000 | 2 | 29% |
| Kiths Integrated and Targeted Human Services Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Independence Seaport Museum | $29,982 | 1 | 1% |
| The John Bartram Association | $27,629 | 1 | 1% |
| Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia Inc | $25,805 | 1 | 2% |
| Bartram's Garden | $20,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Cobbs Creek Community Environmental | $20,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $18,359 | 1 | 0% |
| National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc | $17,300 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Opencollective Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| River Network | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| East Falls Glassworks Inc | $14,348 | 1 | n/a |
| Best Day of My Life So Far Inc | $10,564 | 1 | n/a |
| Over the Goal Women Business Academy | $10,492 | 1 | n/a |
| Face to Face Inc | $10,492 | 1 | 0% |
| A Rose From Concrete | $10,492 | 1 | n/a |
| The Watershed Institute Inc | $10,046 | 1 | 0% |
| The Lion's Story Village | $9,912 | 1 | 1% |
| Asian Arts Initiative | $9,900 | 1 | 1% |
| East Falls Local LLC | $9,352 | 1 | n/a |
| Mari Morales Williams | $8,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Gregory Walker | $7,602 | 1 | n/a |
| Usiloquy Dance Designs | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Asian American Women's Coalition | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Philadelphia Sun Group Inc | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Interact Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| K Cul Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 10% |
| Philadelphia Praise Center | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Modero & Company | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| William Way Lgbt Community Center | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Folklore Project | $7,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Asian American Journalists Association | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tenara Calem | $6,937 | 1 | n/a |
| Red Pen Arts LLC | $5,986 | 1 | n/a |
| Hg Music LLC | $5,092 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Bread and Roses Community Fund · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · National Audubon Society Inc · The Allen Hilles Fund
How this is measured
About Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia
- How much does Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia give?
- Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia reported 11 itemized grants totaling $1,170,527, out of $1,344,971 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Environment (1%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: History Making Productions ($3.4M), Monument Lab Inc ($1.2M), Bearded Ladies Cabaret ($772k).
- Does Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation.
- Where is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia based?
- Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia is based in PA.
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