· Private foundation
Philadelphia Nonprofit Advertising Agency
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OGILVIE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $98,922 |
| MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $31,000 |
| GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE | $20,000 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| MONUMENT LAB | $5,000 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH | $2,000 |
| WOMEN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MALCOLM X PARK | $500 |
| THE 19TH POLICE DISTRICT | $80 |
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 (FY21–21, $500) 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- MCMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS7× · 2017–2023 · $217k · revenue +245%
- TBTHE BARNES FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue +47%
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $68k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- WPWEST PARKSIDE SPORTS & EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $28k
- KPKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +102%
BLACKSTAR PROJECTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue ×13
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.
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…
We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.
To provide resources and advocacy to advance the mission of the free library of philadelphia while stewarding and promoting our special collections for the benefit of all philadelphians and beyond.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The chamber of commerce for greater philadelphia (the chamber) brings area businesses and civic leaders together to promote growth and create opportunity in our region. our members represent eleven counties, three states, and roughly…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is The Ogilvie Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 MANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE OGILVIE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GROUNDS FOR SCULPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JAPANESE HOUSE AND GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds KIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RISE UP EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT LAB INC ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WEST PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Legacy Youth Tennis And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOL-SHOEMAKER CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BILLY MOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF UMOJA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA BOYS GYMNASTICS ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Association of CDCs ↗
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 · The William Penn Foundation · The Ogilvie Family Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The University of the Arts · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Vert Charitable Trust UA 12222011 · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Chubb Charitable 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 Nonprofit Advertising Agency 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.
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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