· Private foundation
Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc
Independence media enriches lives through programs and services that entertain, educate, and inspire.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k94 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORP - PHILLYCAM | $375,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR SIFTMEDIA 215 | $200,000 |
| MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR PHILLY COMMUNITY WIRELESS | $175,000 |
| HUMANITARIAN SOCIAL INNOVATIONS - FISCAL SPONSOR FOR KEYSTONE INTERNET COAL | $170,000 |
| BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE | $150,000 |
| RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA | $150,000 |
| LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM | $150,000 |
| WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE | $140,000 |
| CINESPEAK | $125,000 |
| CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION | $120,000 |
| DIGITAL LITERACY ALLIANCE | $120,000 |
| 2 PUNTOS PLATFORM INC | $100,000 |
| AMISTAD LAW PROJECT | $100,000 |
| LOVE NOW MEDIA | $100,000 |
| AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc’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, 86% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
114 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CGCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA4× · 2020–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +23%
- FOFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +108%
- FPFREE PRESS3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TSTPF SPECIAL ASSETS FUND (LENFEST INSTITUTE)one grant, 2019 · $1.3M
- LFLEEWAY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -49% · 35% of their budget
- MIMEDIA INEQUITY AND CHANGE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $335k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
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The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Our mission is to advance bold ideas for the built environment in the City of Philadelphia and the surrounding region, with a specific focus on transformative projects and ideas in the areas of housing, infrastructure, and energy.
Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
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…
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…
We lead, strengthen, and amplify the voices of greater philadelphia's cultural community.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
At the equal justice center, our mission is to build a more accessible and equitable civil legal system. we strive to create pathways to just outcomes and to remove barriers for all philadelphians, by empowering every member of the…
Education, arts and culture.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Ensemble Theater Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Leeway Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
179 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. 179 of the 395 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NETWORK GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds LEEWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST PERSON ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENFEST INSTITUTE FOR JOURNALISM SPECIAL ASSET FUND OF TPF ↗
- Who funds TALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds CENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION ↗
- Who funds WELCOME PROJECT PA ↗
- Who funds AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP ↗
- Who funds LOVE NOW MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Asian Arts Initiative ↗
- Who funds Termite TV Collective Inc ↗
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.
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
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 Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc 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.
- Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
- Institute for the Development of Education in the Arts — 6% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Institute for the Arts in Educa — 2% of income from government
- Local Journalism Initiative Inc — 0% of income from government
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.