Pennsylvania · Public charity
The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund
THE PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND provides funding & administers grants to non-profit organizations & partnerships in order to connect individuals & families to important economic security programs, public benefits workforce programs that can help lift them out of poverty & help ensure equitable economic recovery in philadelphia.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $529,938
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $664,574
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $5.9M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $6.5M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $3.0M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance | $5,603,637 | 4 | 35% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $3,560,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Campaign for Working Families Inc | $2,972,602 | 3 | 49% |
| African Cultural Alliance of North America | $2,644,938 | 4 | 39% |
| African-American Cultural Alliance | $1,394,246 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Legal Services Inc | $900,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity | $900,000 | 2 | 51% |
| Beech Community Services | $750,000 | 3 | 76% |
| Defender Association of Philadelphia | $688,172 | 3 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Lawyers of Social Equity | $399,166 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 33 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · Philadelphia Works Inc · Independence Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund with peer funders
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About The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund
- How much does The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund give?
- The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund reported 4 itemized grants totaling $1,844,512, out of $2,056,681 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Crime & Legal (26%), Community Improvement (21%).
- Who are The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance ($5.6M), Local Initiatives Support Corporation ($3.6M), Campaign for Working Families Inc ($3.0M).
- Does The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.
- Where is The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund based?
- The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund is based in PA.
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