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Sixers Youth Foundation
To use the power of sport to inspire and educate future generations in the communities where fans live, work and play.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $876,646 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $895,666 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,020 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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $243k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $634k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO | $139,000 |
| CAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC | $109,926 |
| WILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND | $100,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $70,000 |
| NEW OPTIONS MORE OPPORTUNITIES (NO-MO) | $65,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| URBANPROMISE (CAMDEN NJ) | $50,000 |
| LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD | $50,000 |
| SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HORATIO B HACKETT SCHOOL AKA FRIENDS OF HACKETT | $32,720 |
| EVERY KID SPORTS | $30,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIP | $30,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC | $25,000 |
| VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k 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
LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO7× · 2018–2024 · $656k · revenue +389%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +59%
- WCWILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND INC4× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +119% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
Philabundanceone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +0%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +70%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +113%
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.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The mission of philadelphia youth sports collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every…
With over 20 years of experience and over 30,000 scholarships awarded, csfp provides philadelphia children with eight-year, needs-based scholarships to attend safe, quality, k-8th grade schools. continued on schedule o.supporting…
Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.
Philadelphia youth network (pyn) equips young people to build lifelong skills, pursue meaningful careers, and embrace change with confidence - so they can thrive in the workforce, experience economic mobility, and strengthen their…
The mission of the philadelphia education fund (pef) is to create equitable access to opportunities for students by providing resources and expertise that build paths to college and career success. pef focuses on philadelphia public school…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
Summary
Friends of the children philadelphia has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships and professional mentors 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
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.
Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Up Philly and the most unlike its peers is Wilt Chamberlain Memorial Fund Inc. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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.
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 LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds WILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC ↗
- Who funds NO-MO ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Every Kid Sports ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LA LIGA DEL BARRIO ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Horatio B Hackett School ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds LUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM UP PHILLY ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN HEALTH AND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Lenfest Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey
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 Sixers Youth Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Camden Community Partnership Inc — 94% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% 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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