Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc
Independence media enriches lives through programs and services that entertain, educate, and inspire. We believe in the power of television and new technologies to connect communities, promote diversity, and encourage understanding. Its fy2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 176
- Grants FY2024
- 101
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $375,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 130
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $121M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 162 | $6.2M | 62% |
| FY2023 | 101 | $9.8M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 130 | $9.2M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 109 | $11M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $5.5M | 94% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolve Philadelphia Inc | $4,604,340 | 5 | 42% |
| Movement Alliance Project | $4,018,762 | 4 | 26% |
| Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia | $2,404,393 | 4 | 15% |
| Scribe Video Center Inc | $1,814,888 | 6 | 33% |
| Federation of Neighborhood Centers | $1,139,500 | 3 | 21% |
| Free Press | $1,112,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $910,004 | 4 | 1% |
| Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education | $900,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Public Access Corporation | $837,700 | 4 | 28% |
| The Big Picture Alliance Inc | $705,000 | 5 | 34% |
Show all 186 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 203 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 26 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 165 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 Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Samuel S Fels Fund · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc with peer funders
About Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc
- How much does Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc give?
- Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc reported 176 grants totaling $6,192,760 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 130 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (16%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Resolve Philadelphia Inc ($4.6M), Movement Alliance Project ($4.0M), Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia ($2.4M).
- Does Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Barra Foundation Inc.
- Where is Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc based?
- Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc is based in PA.
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