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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…

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
133
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.2MCommunity Improvement$440kYouth Development$385kEducation$363kArts & Culture$299kHuman Services$273kReligion$182kPublic Benefit$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 133 grants below total $1,053,257, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,124,743 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,071,486 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUL FOOD CDC ( UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY)$9,000
PARKSIDE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA$9,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA$9,000
OLD CITY DISTRICT$9,000
SAINTS PARENT ASSOCIATION$9,000
URBAN SPORTS ZONE$9,000
LIBERTY BELL YOUTH ORGINIZATION$9,000
MASJIDULLAH INC$9,000
FASTLANE BOXING ACADEMY$9,000
NORTHEAST REFUGEE CENTER$9,000
ALLEGHENY WEST FOUNDATION$9,000
SMALL THINGS INC$9,000
THE SPANISHLATINX AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERSEMS ASSOCIATION (SAPF$9,000
LONNIE YOUNG ADVISORY COUNCIL$9,000
LOWER NORTH PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (LNPCDC)$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KENCREST SERVICES: $6k → 7%MOTHERS IN CHARGE: $9k → 22%STRAWBERRY MANSION NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION CENTER INC: $9k → 22%STRAWBERRY MANSION NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION: $8k → 22%CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $9k → 22%OUR LADY OF CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $9k → 22%ROSEMARY MONTAGNO SENIOR CENTER: $6k → 22%DELIVERANCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $9k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $5k → 22%VETERAN BOXERS ASSOCIATION RING 1: $6k → 22%ESPERANZA: $8k → 22%MAMA SOPHIA INC: $7k → 22%FAMILIES ARE VICTIMS TOO: $7k → 22%SPICER SANDRAFAMILIES ARE VICTIMS TOO: $7k → 22%COMMUNITY OF COMPASSION INC: $6k → 22%WESTSTOCK: $5k → 22%NORTHWEST VICTIM SERVICES: $8k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $8k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $8k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE: $8k → 22%FEAST OF JUSTICE MINISTRIES: $8k → 22%WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 89 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
213

Total granted

$1.6M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

38%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    3× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +0%
  • JB
    JAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +13%
  • FO
    FEAST OF JUSTICE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CECILIA SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $17k
  • IR
    ICNA RELIEF SHAMS CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • MI
    MASRAY INC (DBA UPTOWN CATERERS)
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Police Athletic League of Philadelphia
Youth Development
2
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
3
Blackwell Culture Alliance Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Options Philly

Improve the quality of life for the community and its residents.

Community Improvement
5
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
6
Garden Court Community Association Inc

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,…

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7
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Metro Phila Inc

To Provide Basketball Programs and After School Programs to disadvantaged youth in Philadelphia and surrounding communities.

Youth Development
9
Grow Philly

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.

Philanthropy
10
Belmont Alliance Civic Association

Community development resources

Youth Development
11
Teen UpRise

Provided mentoring to young women in the ManayunkRoxborough neighborhoods of Philadelphia

Youth Development
12
Endangered Kind Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia; 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.
04the grantee network

116 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/116
Grantees still filing
45/116
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+154 more: $1,979,423 · Other+154 morePolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $39,500 · Youth DevelopmentPolice Ath…FELIZ FILADELFIA: $24,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELIZ FILA…POINT BREEZE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LEAQUE: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOINT BREE…YOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATIONS: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG CHAN…SOMERTON YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOMERTON Y…Parkwood Youth Organization: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentParkwood Y…LIBERTY BELL YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIBERTY BE…RHAWNHURST ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,997 · Youth DevelopmentRHAWNHURST…FIGHT TO LEARN PROGRAM: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentTECHCORE2 NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentMen for Positive Change: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentAZZIM DUKES INITIATIVE: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILADELPHIA SUNS INCORPORATED: $9,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentNICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $33,000 · Community ImprovementTACONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPOR: $20,500 · Community ImprovementBLOCK GIVES BACK CORP: $20,000 · Community ImprovementTriumph Community Development Corporation: $18,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $16,500 · Community ImprovementSPRING GARDEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF FERNHILL PARK: $12,000 · Community ImprovementOLD CITY COMMUNITY FUND: $9,000 · Community ImprovementWHITMAN COUNCIL INC: $9,000 · Community ImprovementSCOOP USA MEDIA COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $9,000 · Community ImprovementFEAST OF JUSTICE: $30,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOC: $18,000 · Human ServicesStrawberry Mansion Neighborhood Action Center: $16,498 · Human ServicesFAMILIES ARE VICTIMS TOO F A V T: $13,000 · Human ServicesDeliverance Community Development: $9,000 · Human ServicesMOTHERS IN CHARGE: $9,000 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NPDC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureMummers Museum Inc: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $13,500 · Arts & CultureBILL MCINTYRE'S SHOOTING STARS NYB INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $9,000 · Arts & CultureLiberty Bell Pops: $9,000 · Arts & CultureFRALINGER STRING BAND INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureRALPH BROOKS COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE: $25,500 · Recreation & SportsPhiladelphia Soccer Club of Northeast Philadelphia: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsBUSTLETON BENGALS CLUB: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsLA LIGA DEL BARRIO: $15,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationPhiladelphia Academy Charter School: $10,500 · EducationDennis White Memorial Scholarship Fund: $9,000 · EducationPAN AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,000 · Education
Other$1,979,423Youth Development$252,997Community Improvement$162,000Human Services$95,498Arts & Culture$85,000Recreation & Sports$77,000Education$43,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPolice Athletic League Of Philadelphia: $39,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $33,135 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $33,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC: $33,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetFEAST OF JUSTICE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRALPH BROOKS COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE: $25,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetFELIZ FILADELFIA: $24,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATIONS: $24,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetNORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NPDC: $21,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetTACONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPOR: $20,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBLOCK GIVES BACK CORP: $20,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSOMERTON YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $18,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPhiladelphia Soccer Club of Northeast Philadelphia: $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBUSTLETON BENGALS CLUB: $18,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetNortheast Refugee Center: $18,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetOUR LADY OF CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOC: $18,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetParkwood Youth Organization: $18,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ALLEGHENY WEST FOUNDATION: $16,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetETHIOPIAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $16,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetStrawberry Mansion Neighborhood Action Center: $16,498 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetMummers Museum Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetRHAWNHURST ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15,997 over 2y, 15% of budgetLA LIGA DEL BARRIO: $15,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetAFRICAN PEOPLES EDUCATION AND DEFEN: $15,044 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetDanube Swabian Assoc of Philadelphia: $15,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNueva Esperanza Housing and Economic Development Corporation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSPRING GARDEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDaniel E Rumph II Foundation: $14,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetPhiladelphia Mummers Brigade Association: $14,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIGHT TO LEARN PROGRAM: $13,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEALTHY KIDS RUNNING SERIES: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDRENS BOOK PRO: $11,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPhiladelphia Academy Charter School: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDeliverance Community Development: $9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLiberty Bell Pops: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAZZIM DUKES INITIATIVE: $9,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetWHITMAN COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSMALL THINGS INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLower North Phila Community: $9,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CONCERN 13 MULTI-PURPOSE LEARNING CENTER INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
  • Who funds URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NICETOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ BRIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FEAST OF JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds RALPH BROOKS COMMUNITY BASKETBALL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds MASJIDULLAH INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FELIZ FILADELFIA ↗
  • Who funds POINT BREEZE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT LEAQUE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG CHANCES FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NPDC ↗
  • Who funds TACONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPOR ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK GIVES BACK CORP ↗
  • Who funds SOMERTON YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Soccer Club of Northeast Philadelphia ↗
  • Who funds BUSTLETON BENGALS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Northeast Refugee Center ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF CALVARY ATHLETIC ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds Parkwood Youth Organization ↗

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 Foun…Philadelphia City Fun…The William Penn Foun…Henrietta Tower Wurts…Bread and Roses Commu…The Patricia Kind Fam…Philanthropy Network …PhilabundanceAdam and Maria Sarah …Union Benevolent Asso…United Way of Greater…Connelly Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA41.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 66%
  • African Peoples Education and Defen: 66% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 366 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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