· Public charity
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc
The philadelphia cultural fund was established by the city of philadelphia to conduct grant making activity and provide assistance to local arts organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $301k
- $10k–50k177 grants · $3.2M
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF CITY & C | $501,944 |
| ST CHRISTOPHER'S FOUNDATION FOR CHI | $500,000 |
| PLEASE TOUCH MUSEUM | $500,000 |
| GREATER PHILADELPHIA HEALTH ACTION | $500,000 |
| KIMMEL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING AR | $500,000 |
| FIESTA SCHOOLYARDS | $300,000 |
| ATTIC YOUTH CENTER | $250,000 |
| GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $209,000 |
| LIBERTY BELL POPS | $150,000 |
| THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVA | $150,000 |
| PAINTED BRIDE ARTS CENTER | $110,109 |
| THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT | $100,000 |
| TEAM THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
318 repeat relationships — 208 still active in FY2025, 110 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- CGCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA9× · 2017–2025 · $782k · revenue +126%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +71%- KCKIMMEL CENTER INC5× · 2017–2025 · $558k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- NENueva Esperanza Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +65%
- GSGerman Society of PAone grant, 2017 · $12k
- TCTHE CALVARY CENTER FOR CULTURE & COone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -18%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Lindy Foundation Alan/Frank/Elaine Lindy Trustees. 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 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
306 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. 306 of the 350 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds KIMMEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Please Touch Museum ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Health Action Inc ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds HEADLONG DANCE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds LINDY FOUNDATION ALAN/FRANK/ELAINE LINDY TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATON INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds Historical Society of Pennsylvania ↗
- Who funds ARS NOVA WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE JAPANESE HOUSE AND GARDEN ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERACT INC ↗
- Who funds WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Liberty Bell Pops ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICOPIA INC ↗
- Who funds TILT INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY IMAGE ↗
- Who funds SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Arts Initiative ↗
- Who funds ArcheDream for HUMANKIND ↗
- Who funds KORESH DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE PRINT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK PHILLY ↗
- Who funds Spiral Q Puppet Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds Commonwealth Youthchoirs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN PA ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BIG PICTURE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KYL DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYPENN INC ↗
- Who funds COSACOSA ART AT LARGE INC ↗
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 William Penn Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The University of the Arts · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Connelly Foundation · The Presser Foundation · Stockton Rush Bartol 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 The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc 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.