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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 FY2025still arriving
94
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$7.0MEmployment$3.0MHealth$1.2MEducation$1.1MCrime & Legal$1.0MHuman Services$984kPublic Benefit$701kArts & Culture$656kOther$0
02FY2025 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 94 grants below total $4,933,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,202,622 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $269,227 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k77 grants · $1.6M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $607k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.7M
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Kensington Community Development Corporation$2,162,375
City Of Philadelphia - Vendor$527,614
Fund for the School District of Philadelphia$90,301
Norris Square Community Alliance (Xiente)$84,400
Blackhawks Athletic Club$66,000
Campaign for Working Families Inc$65,000
Greater Philadelphia YMCA$50,500
African Family Health OrganizationAFAHO$50,450
New Voices for Reproductive Freedom$50,000
Allies in Arts$50,000
Growing Resilient Communities$50,000
Puentes de Salud$50,000
Urban Affairs Coalition$48,750
PanPan$45,889
Center In The Park$45,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Fruits of The Family Table: $21k → 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 6%Drueding Center: $38k → 22%New Leash On Life: $10k → 7%Greater Philadelphia YMCA: $51k → 7%PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM VALLEY YMCA: $30k → 7%Norris Community Resident Council Inc: $15k → 22%DIVERSIFIED COMMUNITY SERVICES: $19k → 22%Cloud 9 Community farms: $15k → 22%CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $13k → 22%Strawberry Mansion NAC: $20k → 22%Forget Me Knot Children and Youth Services: $15k → 22%Forget Me Knot Children and Youth Services: $15k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $30k → 22%WELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS: $40k → 22%Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia: $20k → 22%Cambodian Assoc Of Greater Phila: $17k → 22%Hias And Council Migration Service Of P: $20k → 22%Hias And Council Migration Service Of Philadelphia: $19k → 22%New View Institute: $15k → 22%New View Institute: $15k → 22%Cambodian Assoc Of Greater Phila: $13k → 22%Welcoming Center for Pennsylvanians: $15k → 22%SpArc Philadelpha: $14k → 22%People's Emergency Center: $53k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $18k → 22%Blackwell Cultural Alliance Inc: $17k → 22%Center In The Park: $45k → 22%Empowered CDC: $15k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $25k → 22%VILLAGE ARTS & HUMANITIES: $86k → 22%Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coa: $35k → 22%Village of Arts & Humanities: $59k → 22%Village of Arts & Humanities: $53k → 22%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS: $31k → 22%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $25k → 22%Village of Arts & HumEmerald Windows: $35k → 22%VILLAGE ARTS & HUMANITIES: $33k → 22%Southeast Asian MAA Coalition Inc: $17k → 22%Village of Arts & Humanities: $21k → 22%Nationalities Service Center: $25k → 22%William Way LGBT Community Center: $17k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $12k → 22%Anita WillisArdella's House: $15k → 22%Anita WillisArdella's House: $15k → 22%Women in Transition: $35k → 22%PMichal Boone Fdn - Prentice Boone: $20k → 22%Education Culture Opportunities Foundation: $15k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
DE
DC
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 71 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 53 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
107

Total granted

$14M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • NK
    New Kensington Community Development Corp
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +32%
  • IS
    IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +85%
  • CF
    Campaign for Working Families Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $703k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $210k · revenue -31%
  • PF
    PEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $209k · revenue -71%
  • WN
    Why Not Prosper Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $134k · revenue +26%
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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
One Philly

One Philly's mission is to promote policies and actions championed by City leaders and to show the impact those policies and actions have on people's lives and the future of the City.

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3
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
4
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
5
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
6
Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement

Pcca's mission is to strengthen households and communities by developing and preserving homeownership and affordable housing, and educating consumers to increase accessability to economic opportunities.

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8
Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the urban affairs coalition (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging…

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9
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
10
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
11
PowerCorpsPHL

To combat community deterioration and promote education.

Employment
12
Options Philly

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

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Nextfab Foundation. 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

174 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. 174 of the 231 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/174
Grantees still filing
92/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Kensington Community Development Corp: $3,804,612 · OtherNew Kensington Community Development CorpCITY OF PHILADELPHIA: $1,599,200 · OtherCITY OF PHILADELPHIAHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $448,500 · Other+132 more: $4,835,021 · Other+132 moreIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $2,724,500 · EmploymentIMPACT SERVICES CO…THE CAREER WARDROBE: $109,000 · Employment+3 more: $75,000 · EmploymentTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $287,017 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $118,354 · Human ServicesHOPEPHL: $81,665 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $80,500 · Human ServicesCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $80,296 · Human ServicesWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS: $55,000 · Human ServicesCENTER IN THE PARK: $55,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $43,387 · Human Services+21 more: $493,315 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC: $210,200 · Community ImprovementHACE: $210,000 · Community ImprovementCEIBA INC: $186,650 · Community ImprovementNORTH PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $175,392 · Community ImprovementBeech Community Services: $164,161 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $133,656 · Community Improvement+7 more: $128,239 · Community ImprovementCampaign for Working Families Inc: $702,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $363,333 · HealthPUENTES DE SALUD: $50,000 · HealthREAWAKENING AGENCY: $45,000 · HealthPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $40,000 · HealthPHILADELPHIA FIGHT: $38,333 · HealthCONSUMER SATISFACTION TEAM: $35,670 · HealthONCE UPON A PREEMIE: $22,000 · Health+4 more: $64,027 · HealthTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $316,306 · PhilanthropyPEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION: $209,180 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY VENTURES: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPhiladelphia Mummers Brigade Association: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$10,687,333Employment$2,908,500Human Services$1,294,534Community Improvement$1,208,298Crime & Legal$722,500Health$658,363Philanthropy$595,486

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 budgetNew Kensington Community Development Corp: $3,804,612 over 2y, 22% of budgetIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $2,724,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetCampaign for Working Families Inc: $702,500 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetHEALTH FEDERATION OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $448,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC: $363,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: $316,306 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $287,017 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetBeech Interplex Inc: $237,768 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CITY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS INC: $210,200 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHACE: $210,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetPEOPLEFORBIKES FOUNDATION: $209,180 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CLAY STUDIO: $194,872 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCEIBA INC: $186,650 over 6y, 12% of budgetNORTH PHILADELPHIA FINANCIAL PARTNERSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS FUND: $175,392 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBeech Community Services: $164,161 over 5y, 20% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $133,656 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $123,832 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC: $118,354 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBicycle Coalition Of Greater Philadelphia: $114,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE CAREER WARDROBE: $109,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetAFRICAN FAMILY HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $98,140 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $89,714 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEPHL: $81,665 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $80,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $80,296 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION: $78,100 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC: $68,500 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetJOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION: $64,515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA: $58,750 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY: $57,673 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOMING CENTER FOR NEW PENNSYLVANIANS: $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER IN THE PARK: $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetRESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC: $53,928 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $53,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $53,203 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $46,964 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetREAWAKENING AGENCY: $45,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetPOP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS INC: $43,850 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA: $43,387 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION: $43,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBeyond Literacy: $41,343 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIBERTY RESOURCES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Youth Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORRIS COMMUNITY RESIDENTIAL COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $38,950 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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…The William Penn Foun…United Way of Greater…The Patricia Kind Fam…Independence Foundati…Scattergood Behaviora…Bread and Roses Commu…The Barra Foundation …Henrietta Tower Wurts…Philanthropy Network …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Alfred and Mary D…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA118.6× affinity93 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 City Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philadelphia City 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 11%
  • Teensharp: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 231 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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