· Public charity
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $2,243,147 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,302,551 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,404 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $527k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUBMITTABLE HOLDINGS INC | $1,552,374 |
| PHILADELPHIA AUTHORITY FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT | $88,444 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMERCE DEPT | $87,003 |
| CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV FOUNDATION | $80,348 |
| BUCKS COUNTY ECON DEV CORP | $78,964 |
| ALVIN PETTIT STUDIO LLC | $75,000 |
| DELAWARE COUNTY EDOB | $67,330 |
| ECOMAP TECHNOLOGIES INC | $50,000 |
| GREATER BERKS DEV FUND | $46,017 |
| LIVE GIRLS BAND LLC | $20,000 |
| GERMAN AMERICAN MARKETING INC | $18,750 |
| LANCASTER AVENUE 21ST CENTURY CDC | $17,000 |
| THE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY INC | $13,000 |
| YIKES INC | $10,432 |
| PARKWAY COUNCIL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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
- CCCHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL4× · 2017–2023 · $268k · revenue +86%
- DCDELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2017–2024 · $229k · revenue +89%
- GBGREATER BERKS DEVELOPMENT FUND5× · 2017–2024 · $212k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- COCITY OF PHILA (AVIATION)one grant, 2023 · $691k
- TMThe Merchants Fund of Philadelphiagraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +30%
- KUKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $200k
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.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
See schedule o.pidc-ldc administers, as a subrecipient of the city of philadelphia, various federally funded grant programs, including community development block grants, housing and urban development loans, and economic development…
To strengthen the competitiveness of center city philadelphia as an attractive place to work, to visit, and to live to enhance center city as the vibrant hub of the greater philadelphia region through research, planning, advocacy, and…
To promote and facilitate the sustainable and equitable development of philadelphias germantown neighborhood. gu works to improve the quality of life of germantown residents, support local businesses, and advance commercial corridor…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
The philadelphia green capital corp. connects projects to capital (public, private and philanthropic) to drive a robust, equitable clean energy market in the greater philadelphia region, support the philadelphia energy authority, and…
To formulate, implement, and promote economic development strategies for franklin county, pennsylvania and the enhancement of job opportunities therein.
Promote the greater philadelphia region as a premier destination for cultural & historical travel
The mission of the philadelphia visitor center corporation (pvcc) is to enhance the experience of visitors to philadelphia by providing exceptional customer service and access to all that the city has to offer. pvcc will inspire visitors…
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
Campus philly is an organization that strives to fuel economic growth by encouraging college students to study, explore, live, and work in the greater philadelphia area as well as the entire tristate region.
Vision: PACDC works to create an equitable city where every Philadelphian lives works and thrives in a neighborhood that offers an excellent quality of life. Mission: PACDC is a membership association, that fosters strong community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Dvrpc Southeastern Pennsylvania Corporation. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 20% of your grantees by number, and just 26% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 92 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
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.
- Who funds The Merchants Fund of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BERKS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL STATEN SR PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds DVRPC SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA TOURISM MARKETING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AfricaReConnect Incorporated ↗
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 · Pidc Local Development Corporation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Industrial Development Corporation 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.
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.