How much does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance give?

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance reported 25 itemized grants totaling $288,500, out of $874,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Community Improvement (43%), Human Services (4%).

Who are Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pidc Community Capital ($653k), Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia ($162k), Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee ($95k).

Does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.

Where is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance based?

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is based in PA.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

We lead, strengthen, and amplify the voices of greater philadelphia's cultural community.

$874k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2025: 3
Organizations funded FY2024: 67%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $289k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $9,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $29,500
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 8; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentEmploymentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$267k	75%
FY2024	3	$58k	67%
FY2023	7	$194k	86%
FY2022	1	$23k	100%
FY2021	1	$78k	0%
FY2020	8	$633k	38%
FY2019	6	$38k	17%
FY2018	6	$38k	17%

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What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$724kCommunity Improvement$653kHuman Services$59kEducation$30kScience & Tech$18kYouth Development$13kEnvironment$9k

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
Pidc Community Capital	$653,397	2	5%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia	$162,100	2	2%
Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee	$94,750	1	n/a
The Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc	$58,500	2	23%
Team Sunshine Performance Corp	$39,500	2	22%
Danse4nia Repertory Ensemble Inc	$30,730	4	9%
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media	$27,968	4	2%
Shameka Sawyer	$27,000	1	n/a
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	$26,200	3	0%
Philadelphia Young Playwrights	$23,191	1	4%

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All grantees of Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pidc Community Capital	$653,397	2	5%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia	$162,100	2	2%
Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee	$94,750	1	n/a
The Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc	$58,500	2	23%
Team Sunshine Performance Corp	$39,500	2	22%
Danse4nia Repertory Ensemble Inc	$30,730	4	9%
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media	$27,968	4	2%
Shameka Sawyer	$27,000	1	n/a
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts	$26,200	3	0%
Philadelphia Young Playwrights	$23,191	1	4%
Inliquidcom Inc	$22,000	2	1%
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia	$20,326	4	5%
Pasion Y Arte	$20,226	4	n/a
Relache Inc	$20,171	4	n/a
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	$18,000	1	0%
Thinker Makers Society	$16,500	1	n/a
Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation	$14,750	2	1%
The Fabric Workshop and Museum	$14,000	2	0%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$13,850	1	0%
Your Agency Incorporated	$11,000	1	n/a
Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation	$11,000	1	17%
Crown Publications	$11,000	1	n/a
Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial Inc	$11,000	1	0%
Philash Entertainment Group & Soulful Sounds	$11,000	1	n/a
Saint Joseph's University	$8,500	1	0%
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia	$8,500	1	0%
The Barnes Foundation	$8,000	1	0%
Philadelphia Museum of Art	$8,000	1	0%
Fringearts	$7,000	1	n/a
After-School All-Stars	$7,000	1	0%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$7,000	1	0%
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc	$7,000	1	0%
Famfrequency Productions Inc	$6,500	1	1%
Tiny Wpa	$5,500	1	n/a
The Rock School for Dance Education	$5,500	1	n/a
Opera Philadelphia	$5,500	1	0%
Shakespeare in Clark Park	$5,250	1	7%
Taller Puertorriqueno Inc	$5,250	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 Cultural Fund IncPA42.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The University of the Arts · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Victory Foundation · Ludwick Fdn · Studio in a School Association Inc

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.

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About Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

How much does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance give?: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance reported 25 itemized grants totaling $288,500, out of $874,474 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Community Improvement (43%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pidc Community Capital ($653k), Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia ($162k), Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee ($95k).
Does Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
Where is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance based?: Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is based in PA.