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Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia

To strengthen philanthropy in order to create a more vibrant, resilient, and equitable region.

$86k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0166% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2022.

Human Services$342kArts & Culture$233kCommunity Improvement$178kHealth$125kEducation$70kYouth Development$65kCrime & Legal$55kHousing & Shelter$53kReligion$40kOther$729k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$85,849
Median grant
1
States reached
$798k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S FIRST PA$85,849
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHILDREN'S FIRST PA: $86k → 22%SAVAGE SISTERS RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%ALL FOR ALL AGENCY: $10k → 10%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $15k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 7%SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 22%CENTRO DE APOYO COMUNITARIO: $12k → 10%KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%KOREAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10k → 22%PHILADELPHIA CORPORATION FOR THE AGING: $9k → 22%CAIR-PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%CAMBODIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $8k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA ASIAN SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 22%PEOPLE'S EMERGENCY CENTER: $10k → 22%FACE TO FACE: $8k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $12k → 22%SUPPORTIVE OLDER WOMEN'S NETWORK: $5k → 22%AGAPE SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED & TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $15k → 22%SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION COALITION INC: $25k → 22%KITHS INTEGRATED & TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES: $6k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER: $15k → 22%GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC: $5k → 22%NATIONALITIES SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 22%THE EDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$590k · 25 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
110

Total granted

$590k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+38%

Still filing today

92%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $43k · revenue +68%
  • PC
    PHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2019–2021 · $36k · revenue +42%
  • AC
    AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA
    2× · 2019–2021 · $36k · revenue +285%

Funded once

  • PP
    PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2020 · $37k · revenue +16%
  • CG
    CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
    one grant, 2021 · $29k · revenue -30%
  • MIGHTY WRITERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +53%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
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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3
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
4
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
5
Acculturation for Justice Access & Peace Outreach

Ajapo's mission is to provide a continuum of care which empowers refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated into the greater pittsburgh community in allegheny county. ajapo is a refugee resettlement agency providing…

Human Services
6
Philadelphia Association of CDCs

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…

Community Improvement
7
Frankford Community Development Corporation

The Frankford Community Development Corporation FCDC is dedicated to the asset-based development of Lower Northeast Philadelphia by focusing on job creation affordable and workforce housing development improving awareness and outcomes…

Housing & Shelter
8
Asociacion De Puertorriquenos en Marcha Inc

To promote the welfare of puerto rican / latino residents of the greater philadelphia area through their health, human serivces and community development programs.

Human Services
9
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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10
Garden Court Community Association Inc

The Garden Court Community Association (GCCA) is an organization of individuals and families living and working in the Garden Court neighborhood in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since the mid 1950's, GCCA has worked to foster, promote,…

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11
Eastern North Philadelphia Workforce Development Corp

Eastern north philadelphia workforce development corporation ("enpwdc") is a non-profit corporation serving the hispanic community of north philadelphia. enpwdc's primary mission is to assist individuals and families in achieving economic…

Human Services
12
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

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

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Dominican Parade Y Festival of Phil. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%19%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr15%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr15%14%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr15%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/136
the rest of the field
16%
2,028/12,704

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.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 136 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
45
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/114
Grantees still filing
83/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $42,500 · OtherPHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION — $37,320 · OtherNueva Esperanza Inc — $30,000 · Other+62 more — $765,850 · Other+62 moreChildren First PA — $85,849 · Human ServicesChildren First PASOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTU…ACLAMO — $25,000 · Human ServicesACLAMOKITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesKITHS INTEGRATED AND…NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · Human ServicesNATIONALITIES SERVIC…Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia — $19,221 · Human ServicesKorean American Asso…CONNECTEDLY — $17,000 · Human ServicesAGAPE AFRICAN SENIOR CENTER INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE APOYO COMUNITARIO — $12,000 · Human Services+12 more — $102,450 · Human Services+12 moreAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA — $35,500 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN CULTU…CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $28,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURETRUST …FIRST PERSON ARTS INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST PERSON …Asian Arts Initiative — $20,000 · Arts & CultureAsian Arts In…MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $15,500 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT ALLI…MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureMULTICULTURAL…AL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE — $14,500 · Arts & CultureAL-BUSTAN SEE…EMPRENDEDORES INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $61,870 · Arts & Culture+9 morePHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $36,000 · Community ImprovementPHILADELPH…COMMON FUTURE — $22,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMON FUT…CEIBA INC — $17,500 · Community ImprovementCEIBA INCCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom — $15,000 · Community ImprovementCoalition …MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $14,500 · Community ImprovementMEDICAL SO…TRICOUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTRICOUNTY …HACE — $10,000 · Community ImprovementHACEArab American Development Corp — $10,000 · Community ImprovementArab Ameri…RISING HOPE FOR CHANGE INC — $8,500 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEUR WORKS FUND — $7,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTH KENSINGTON COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC — $7,345 · Community ImprovementGERMANTOWN UNITED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $7,300 · Community ImprovementMAYFAIR BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT INC — $6,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $6,000 · Community ImprovementPUENTES DE SALUD — $22,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $21,500 · HealthAFRICAN &MIDDLE EASTERN CENTERS FOR HEALTH & DEVEO — $17,885 · HealthPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK — $17,500 · HealthONE DAY AT A TIME INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE PROVIDENCE CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthCONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 · HealthMEDICOS UNIDOS INC — $10,000 · HealthPENN ASIAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $6,500 · HealthMIGHTY WRITERS — $27,500 · EducationGENERATIONS ON LINE — $27,000 · EducationWEREIGN INC — $10,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $5,000 · EducationASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentWE LOVE PHILLY — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentInstitute for the Development of African-American — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$875,670Human Services$341,520Arts & Culture$232,870Community Improvement$178,145Health$125,385Education$69,500Youth Development$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren First PA — $85,849 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $42,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION — $37,320 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CHINATOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $36,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA — $35,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNueva Esperanza Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $28,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS — $27,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS UNITED INC — $27,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGENERATIONS ON LINE — $27,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetLancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association — $26,100 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetACHIEVEABILITY — $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACLAMO — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON FUTURE — $22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILIP JAISOHN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPUENTES DE SALUD — $22,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST PERSON ARTS INC — $22,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $21,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTING PARK NAC — $21,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetKITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEQUITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAsian Arts Initiative — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUST ACT INC — $19,500 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetKorean American Association of Greater Philadelphia — $19,221 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetANTI-VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP OF PHILADELPHIA — $18,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY ACTIVE AGING — $17,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWomen Walking In Victory Service Center — $17,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK — $17,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCEIBA INC — $17,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPATRICIAN SOCIETY OF CENTRAL NORRISTOWN — $17,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCONNECTEDLY — $17,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT — $15,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCoalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom — $15,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAMISTAD LAW PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMEDICAL SOCIETY OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA — $14,500 over 1y, 58% of budgetAL-BUSTAN SEEDS OF CULTURE — $14,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOLLECTIVE CLIMB — $12,500 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetWE LOVE PHILLY — $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetCENTRO DE APOYO COMUNITARIO — $12,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetUNITE HERE LOCAL 274 — $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSoul Food Community Development Corporation Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Scattergood Behaviora…The William Penn Foun…United Way of Greater…Bread and Roses Commu…Philadelphia City Fun…The Patricia Kind Fam…The Barra Foundation …Henrietta Tower Wurts…Independence Foundati…W W Smith Charitable …Independence Public M…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA106.6× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Independence Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc

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 Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 136 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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