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Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

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

$874k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$724kCommunity Improvement$653kHuman Services$59kEducation$30kScience & Tech$18kYouth Development$13kEnvironment$9k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $288,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $874,474 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $585,974 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $199k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S COALITION FOR EMPOWERMENT$29,500
5 SHORTS PROJECT$27,000
PENN MUSEUM$22,000
THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES$18,000
TEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE CORPORATION$17,500
THINKER MAKERS SOCIETY$16,500
INLIQUID$13,500
CROWN PUBLICATIONS$11,000
PHILASH ENTERTAINMENT GROUP & SOULFUL SOUNDS$11,000
HISTORIC GLORIA DEI PRESERVATION CORPORATION$11,000
MINISTRY OF AWE$11,000
SAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL$11,000
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS$9,000
MUTTER MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY$8,500
MAGUIRE ART MUSEUM SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY$8,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S COALITION FOR EMPOWERMENT: $30k → 7%WOMEN'S COALITION FOR EMPOWERMENT: $29k → 7%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $7k → 22%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $6k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliancelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$343k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • PC
    PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $653k · revenue +105%
  • CG
    CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2020–2023 · $162k · revenue +23%
  • TS
    TEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE CORP
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • P2
    PHILADELPHIA 2016 HOST COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2017 · $95k
  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue -5%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +63%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
2
Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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3
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
4
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
5
Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture
6
The Performance Art Museum

The performance art museum (pam) is the first u.s. institution exclusively dedicated to the presentation and preservation of live art. our mission is to facilitate the powerful impact of live experiences that can profoundly transform our…

Arts & Culture
7
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
8
Women's Project & Productions Inc

Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…

Arts & Culture
9
Philadelphia Theatre Company

Philadelphia theatre company is a vital civic institution dedicated to the creation of extraordinary theatrical experiences that reflect the essential issues and ideas of our time, and which foster connection, understanding, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Association for Public Art

The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…

Arts & Culture
11
Fire Museum Presents

Curate free musical performances

Arts & Culture
12
Play On Philly

Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Shakespeare in Clark Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%7%<5yr15%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr17%59%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr16%12%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
16%
1,554/9,557

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
15/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $653,397 · Community ImprovementPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITALCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $162,100 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADEL…TEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE CORP — $39,500 · Arts & CultureTEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE COR…DANSE4NIA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC — $30,730 · Arts & CultureDANSE4NIA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE …Inliquidcom Inc — $22,000 · Arts & CultureInliquidcom IncPasion Y Arte — $20,226 · Arts & CultureRELACHE INC — $20,171 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $13,850 · Arts & Culture+11 more — $85,500 · Arts & Culture+11 morePHILADELPHIA 2016 HOST COMMITTEE — $94,750 · OtherPHILADELPHIA 2016 …SHAMEKA SAWYER — $27,000 · OtherSHAMEKA SAWYERPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $23,191 · OtherPHILADELPHIA YOUNG…CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,326 · OtherCHORAL ARTS SOCIET…THINKER MAKERS SOCIETY — $16,500 · OtherTHINKER MAKERS SOC…PHILASH ENTERTAINMENT GROUP & SOULFUL SOUNDS — $11,000 · OtherCROWN PUBLICATIONS — $11,000 · OtherTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA — $8,500 · OtherThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $14,000 · OtherThe Fabric Worksho…+3 more — $18,000 · Other+3 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $53,000 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $26,200 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $8,500 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 · EducationThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc — $58,500 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA — $27,968 · Human ServicesTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $18,000 · Science & TechGLEN FOERD CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $14,750 · Environment
Community Improvement$653,397Arts & Culture$394,077Other$244,267Education$94,700Human Services$86,468Science & Tech$18,000Environment$14,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPIDC COMMUNITY CAPITAL — $653,397 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $162,100 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc — $58,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $53,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM SUNSHINE PERFORMANCE CORP — $39,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetDANSE4NIA REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC — $30,730 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA JEWISH FILM AND MEDIA — $27,968 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS — $26,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS — $23,191 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetInliquidcom Inc — $22,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHORAL ARTS SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,326 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLEN FOERD CONSERVATION CORPORATION — $14,750 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum — $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $13,850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY — $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamfrequency Productions Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA — $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHAKESPEARE IN CLARK PARK — $5,250 over 1y, 7.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Cult…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Wyncote FoundationThe University of the…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Barra Foundation …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Victory FoundationLudwick FdnStudio in a School As…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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