How much does The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc give?

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc reported 234 grants totaling $7,879,934 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 171 and 262 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (78%), Education (6%), Youth Development (5%).

Who are The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia ($782k), Fractured Atlas Inc ($610k), Kimmel Center Inc ($558k).

Does The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation, Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw.

Where is The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc based?

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc is based in PA.

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$7.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

234

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$502k

Largest

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 2025.

Arts & Culture$24MEducation$2.0MYouth Development$1.5MHealth$868kEnvironment$444kCommunity Improvement$327kReligion$300kScience & Tech$287kOther$0

02FY2025 · 234 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k40 grants · $301k
$10k–50k177 grants · $3.2M
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
$250k+8 grants · $3.3M

$17,892

Median grant

States reached

$7.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
GLOBAL PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION	$250,000
ATTIC YOUTH CENTER	$250,000
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA	$209,000
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVA	$150,000
LIBERTY BELL POPS	$150,000
PAINTED BRIDE ARTS CENTER	$110,109
TEAM THOMPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION	$100,000
SICKLE CELL DISEASE ASSOC	$100,000
THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIAT	$100,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$28M · 318 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

318

Total granted

$28M

$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+7%

Still filing today

86%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

CG
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
9× · 2017–2025 · $782k · revenue +126%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $610k · revenue +71%
KC
KIMMEL CENTER INC
5× · 2017–2025 · $558k · revenue +75%

Funded once

NE
Nueva Esperanza Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +65%
GS
German Society of PA
one grant, 2017 · $12k
MA
MARIAN ANDERSON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +4%

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.

Philadelphia Festival of the Arts Inc

To promote the cultural richness of philadelphia and to bring the most distinguished work in the arts to audiences in the philadelphia region

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Fire Museum Presents

Curate free musical performances

Arts & Culture

Emprendedores Inc

Education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture

Philly Sound Exchange Llc

Students wrote produced and performed an original musical Bridges The musical follows students as they navigate their racial identities address issues of race at their suburban school and challenge a music education system in need of…

Arts & Culture

Artphilly

The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…

Arts & Culture

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.

Arts & Culture

The Philadelphia Chorus

Cultural engagement through choral music

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Resonance Works

Resonance works is a Pittsburgh-based performing arts non-profit that empowers musicians and inspires audiences with intimate, genre-defying productions featuring everything from opera and musical theatre to orchestral, choral, and chamber…

Arts & Culture

Allentown Public Theatre

Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.

Arts & Culture

Pittsburgh Festival Opera

Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…

Arts & Culture

Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; 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.

04the grantee network

306 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

115

Early backer (in before they grew)

293/306

Grantees still filing

204/306

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$14,621,870Other$6,865,169Education$2,070,987Youth Development$697,877Community Improvement$430,659Philanthropy$415,819Health$412,988

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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 William Penn FoundationPA177× affinity137 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

69report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home