Pennsylvania · Public charity
Philadelphia City Fund Inc
The Philadelphia City Fund serves as the fiscal sponsor for the City of Philadelphia and leverages public-private partnerships in collaboration with the City, the philanthropic community, and the residents of Philadelphia.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 94
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,162,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 53
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations Philadelphia City Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 92 | $4.9M | 58% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $5.4M | 66% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $710k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.6M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.7M | 63% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $1.9M | 73% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $777k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Kensington Community Development Corp | $3,804,612 | 2 | 22% |
| Impact Services Corporation | $2,724,500 | 3 | 16% |
| City of Philadelphia | $1,599,200 | 7 | n/a |
| Campaign for Working Families Inc | $702,500 | 7 | 10% |
| Health Federation of Philadelphia Inc | $448,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Congreso de Latinos Unidos Inc | $363,333 | 4 | 1% |
| The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia | $316,306 | 3 | 3% |
| The Village of Arts and Humanities | $287,017 | 6 | 6% |
| Silva's Bakery | $259,069 | 2 | n/a |
| Beech Interplex Inc | $237,768 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 230 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Philadelphia City Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 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 · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation
How this is measured
About Philadelphia City Fund Inc
- How much does Philadelphia City Fund Inc give?
- Philadelphia City Fund Inc reported 94 itemized grants totaling $4,933,395, out of $5,202,622 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 53 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Philadelphia City Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (38%), Employment (16%), Health (6%).
- Who are Philadelphia City Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: New Kensington Community Development Corp ($3.8M), Impact Services Corporation ($2.7M), City of Philadelphia ($1.6M).
- Does Philadelphia City Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Philadelphia City Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
- Where is Philadelphia City Fund Inc based?
- Philadelphia City Fund Inc is based in PA.
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