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Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy at a glance

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Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy

To promote the common interests of, and improve business conditions for, philadelphia hotels through the development and operation of the philadelphia hospitality improvement levy district (phil district) and other programs and intiatives.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$4.2M
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, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$13MRecreation & Sports$1.4MHealth$580kEmployment$350kReligion$275kScience & Tech$250kEducation$224kMembership Benefit$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.7M
$100,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau$4,175,000
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Corp DBA Visit Phil$500,000
American Bus Association Inc$181,899
National Association of Colleges and Employers$150,000
National Council for Behav Health DBA NCFMW$150,000
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc$125,000
National Science Teaching Association$124,000
Achieving the Dream Inc$100,000
American Occupational Therapy Association$100,000
World Federation of Orthodontists$100,000
East Coast Volleyball$90,000
Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives$70,000
Presido Networked Solutions Incorporated$42,000
American Contract Bridge League Inc$25,000
RELX Inc DBA Reed Exhibitions$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Presido Networked Solutions Incorporated: $42k → 8%Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau: $4.2M → 22%Informa Princeton LLC: $25k → 6%Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses: $275k → 16%East Coast Volleyball: $90k → 10%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE: $17k → 14%Association for Behavior Analysis International: $55k → 12%World Federation of Orthodontists: $100k → 11%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY INC: $20k → 17%DBA Reed Exhibitions: $25k → 9%NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $15k → 13%American Col of Veterinary Internal Medicine: $25k → 8%Opus Solutions LLC: $100k → 9%Alzheimer's ASSOCIATION: $150k → 14%American Contract Bridge League Inc: $25k → 10%ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA NORTH ATLANTIC REGION: $25k → 8%Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives: $70k → 9%National Science Teaching Association: $124k → 9%American Occupational Therapy Association: $100k → 8%Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc: $125k → 19%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $3.1M → 22%East Coast Volleyball: $57k → 10%SEIU: $200k → 14%RELX Inc DBA Reed Exhibitions: $25k → 9%Achieving the Dream Inc: $100k → 8%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $1.3M → 22%American Bus Association Inc: $182k → 14%RELX INC: $25k → 9%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $1.2M → 22%REED EXHIBITIONS: $15k → 9%Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau: $871k → 22%Philadelphia Soccer 2026: $850k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $500k → 22%Greater Philadelphia Tourism Corp DBA Visit Phil: $500k → 22%Visit Philadelphia: $500k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $392k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $300k → 22%Parkway Council Foundation: $100k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA TOURISM MARKETING CORPORATION: $50k → 22%Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $50k → 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

WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 5 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$13M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+3%

Still filing today

60%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementRecreation & SportsHealthEducationOther
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

  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU
    8× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +36% · 42% of their budget
  • GP
    GREATER PHILADELPHIA TOURISM MARKETING CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue -66%
  • EC
    EAST COAST VOLLEYBALL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $147k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • PS
    PHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026
    one grant, 2024 · $850k · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAHS WITNESSES
    one grant, 2024 · $275k
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -4%
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
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
2
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health
3
American Gastroenterological Association Inc

The purpose of american gastroenterological association, inc. is to promote the common business interests of its members by promoting the image of the industry as a whole; to serve as a central, unified voice for the specialty of…

Community Improvement
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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6
American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
9
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
10
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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11
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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12
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 31 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
11/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $11,853,960 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU+20 more: $1,995,899 · Other+20 moreGREATER PHILADELPHIA TOURISM MARKETING CORPORATION: $1,050,000 · Community ImprovementPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $850,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST COAST VOLLEYBALL INC: $147,000 · Recreation & SportsPARKWAY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 · HealthNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $150,000 · HealthNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION: $124,000 · EducationACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $100,000 · Education
Other$13,849,859Community Improvement$1,120,000Recreation & Sports$1,097,000Health$300,000Education$224,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU: $11,853,960 over 8y, 42% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA TOURISM MARKETING CORPORATION: $1,050,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SOCCER 2026: $850,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY: $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES & EMPLOYERS: $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST COAST VOLLEYBALL INC: $147,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL SCIENCE TEACHING ASSOCIATION: $124,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACHIEVING THE DREAM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKWAY COUNCIL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetAssociation of Chamber of Commerce Executives Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITYINC SUBORDINATES GROUP RETURN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY INTERNAL MEDICINE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Hospitality Investment Levy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: 14% of income from government
  • Achieving the Dream Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 31 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home