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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.

$896k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$139k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$952kYouth Development$645kHealth$355kCommunity Improvement$347kRecreation & Sports$344kFood & Nutrition$300kSocial Science$152kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $876,646, the rows itemized in this filing. The $895,666 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $19,020 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $243k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $634k
$40,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
URBANPROMISE (CAMDEN NJ)$50,000
PHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$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
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM INC$25,000
VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY$25,000
NEMOURS CHILDREN'S HEALTH$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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $40k → 6%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25k → 7%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

NY
OR
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DE
DC
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 14 repeat orgs$963k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$2.3M
$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+38%

Still filing today

93%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $323k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO
    7× · 2018–2024 · $656k · revenue +389%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2020–2021 · $250k · revenue +59%
  • WC
    WILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +119% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +0%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +113%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +70%
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
Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative

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…

Philanthropy
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Horizons Greater Philadelphia Inc

Horizons Greater Philadelphia advances educational equity by building long-term partnerships with students, families, communities, and schools to create experiences outside of school that inspire the joy of learning.

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4
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.

Community Improvement
5
Philadelphia Youth Network Inc

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…

Youth Development
6
Children First Pa

Summary

Human Services
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
8
Children's Scholarship Fund Philadelphia

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…

Education
9
Friends of the Children - Philadelphia

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…

Education
10
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
11
Girls On the Run Philadelphia

The girls on the run mission is to inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Housing & Shelter
12
The Philadelphia Education Fund

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…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Up Philly; the most unlike its peers is Every Kid Sports. 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

37 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $656,000 · Youth DevelopmentLEARN FRESH EDUCATION COPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $252,357 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZEDPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $50,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $104,560 · Youth Development+4 moreWILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND INC: $241,005 · EducationWILT CHAMBERL…BREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH …Friends of Horatio B Hackett School: $32,720 · EducationFriends of Ho…CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $25,000 · EducationCHESTER COUNT…TEAM UP PHILLY: $24,273 · EducationTEAM UP PHILL…CAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $217,852 · OtherCAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNE…URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: $50,000 · OtherURBANPROMISE MINISTRIESPROJECT ELIJAH EMPOWERING AUTISM: $30,000 · OtherNO-MO: $105,000 · OtherNO-MOPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $24,308 · OtherSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · OtherSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOC…Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 · OtherTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL …THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 · OtherTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LA…URBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 · OtherURBANPROMISE INTERNATIO…+2 more: $34,790 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $250,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTHE CHILDRE…THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS…LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsLEVELING TH…Every Kid Sports: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsEvery Kid S…VARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsVARIETY THE…LA LIGA DEL BARRIO: $42,215 · Recreation & SportsLA LIGA DEL…UP2US INC: $37,500 · Recreation & SportsUP2US INCPhilabundance: $250,000 · Food & NutritionPhilabunda…SHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $25,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE FOOD…FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK …THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $152,400 · Social Science
Youth Development$1,062,917Education$392,998Other$676,950Health$325,000Recreation & Sports$324,715Food & Nutrition$300,000Social Science$152,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEARN FRESH EDUCATION CO: $656,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $252,357 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $250,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILT CHAMBERLAIN MEMORIAL FUND INC: $241,005 over 4y, 40% of budgetCAMDEN COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC: $217,852 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $152,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNO-MO: $105,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $70,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEvery Kid Sports: $70,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA OUTWARD BOUND CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetURBANPROMISE MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBANPROMISE INTERNATIONAL: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLA LIGA DEL BARRIO: $42,215 over 2y, 37% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUP2US INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Horatio B Hackett School: $32,720 over 1y, 51% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY INC: $30,450 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLUCY OUTREACH A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC: $24,308 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEAM UP PHILLY: $24,273 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAMDEN HEALTH AND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $19,110 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetBOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF CHESTER: $18,290 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION: $16,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…The William Penn Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Pew Charitable Tr…Chubb Charitable Foun…The Lenfest Foundatio…The Patricia Kind Fam…Dick's Sporting Goods…Community Foundation …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA32.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sixers Youth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sixers Youth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sixers Youth Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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