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Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc
Philadelphia activities fund is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of providing funds to support, enhance and serve community and recreation organizations and activities within the city of philadelphia (including, without limitation, sports, dance , arts and health) and encouraging and increasing opportunities for…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 133 grants below total $1,053,257 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,124,743 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,071,486 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMALL THINGS INC | $9,000 |
| OAK LANE YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
| SOMERTON YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $9,000 |
| RALPH BROOKS COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE | $9,000 |
| POLISH AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER MUSEUM | $9,000 |
| 25TH POLICE DISTRICT ADVISORY COUNCIL | $9,000 |
| FRANKFORD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $9,000 |
| WHY NOT PROSPER | $9,000 |
| SOUL FOOD CDC ( UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY) | $9,000 |
| LOWER NORTH PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LNPCDC) | $9,000 |
| MEN WHO CARE OF GERMATOWN | $9,000 |
| FACT EXPERIENCE | $9,000 |
| OLD CITY DISTRICT | $9,000 |
| GEORGE WOODS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $9,000 |
| PARKWOOD YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $9,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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.
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.
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.
89 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 64 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k 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
- JBJAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +13%
- NCNICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +0%
- FOFEAST OF JUSTICE4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- SCST CECILIA SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $17k
- IRICNA RELIEF SHAMS CLINICone grant, 2022 · $15k
- MIMASRAY INC (DBA UPTOWN CATERERS)one grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Since our launch in 2018, the team at Blackwell Culture Alliance Inc has worked tirelessly to promote our cause of community service with our youth programs. We are fortunate to have volunteers and staff from all walks of life who bring…
Improve the quality of life for the community and its residents.
Mentoring and educational programs for female youth
The Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) is an organization of individuals and families living and working in the Garden Court neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since the mid 1950's, GCCA has worked to foster, promote,…
Education, arts and culture.
To Provide Basketball Programs and After School Programs to disadvantaged youth in Philadelphia and surrounding communities.
Our mission is to build healthy, sustainable communities in Philadelphia. We do that by using our unique Mind, Body and Soul approach to helping the community learn to become healthy and sustainable.
Community development resources
Provided mentoring to young women in the ManayunkRoxborough neighborhoods of Philadelphia
Endangered Kind mission is to reduce gun violence using a community-driven approach that fosters trust to reach, restore, and sustain quality of life for high-risk youth and young adults ages 15-27 in the City of Philadelphia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Weststock. 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 12 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 18% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
116 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 116 of the 366 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.
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- Who funds JAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FEAST OF JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds RALPH BROOKS COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FELIZ FILADELFIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds POINT BREEZE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LEAQUE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NPDC ↗
- Who funds TACONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPOR ↗
- Who funds BLOCK GIVES BACK CORP ↗
- Who funds BUSTLETON BENGALS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Triumph Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds Parkwood Youth Organization ↗
- Who funds Northeast Refugee Center ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds SOMERTON YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY BELL YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
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 · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · Philabundance · Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girls · Union Benevolent Association · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly 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 Philadelphia Activities Fund 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.
- African Peoples Education and Defen — 66% 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.
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