How much did THE PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND grant in FY2024?

Crime & Legal$5.3MHuman Services$5.2MCommunity Improvement$3.9MArts & Culture$3.5MHealth$200kFood & Nutrition$195kYouth Development$175kReligion$130kHousing & Shelter$60kOther$1.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

educationrecordsvictimsaddressingbailneighborhoodreal

2023

neighborhoodnkcdc servessocialempowerworkforceincomestrengthen

2024

restaurantadvocacystatesworkforcesocialurbanleague

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k7 grants · $210k
$50k–250k7 grants · $558k
$250k+7 grants · $5.2M

$60,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

GREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$1,496,091
LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION$1,025,000
AFRICAN CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF NORTH AMERICA$1,000,000
PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY$500,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES (CLS)$500,000
CAMPAIGN FOR WORKING FAMILIES$400,000
BEECH COMMUNITY SERVICES$300,000
DEFENDER ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA$177,751
UPLIFT SOLUTIONS$80,000
NOMO FOUNDATION$60,000
EASTERN NORTH PHILA WORKFORCE DEVELOP COR$60,000
THE ELEVATION PROJECT- FED OF NEIGHBORHOOD$60,000
COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILA FOUNDATION$60,000
FATHER'S DAY RALLY COMMITTEE$60,000
The Urban League of Philadelphia$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 20 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +131% since the first grant, against +126% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$18M

$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%

+126%

Still filing today

85%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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

GP
GREATER PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE
3× · 2021–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +339% · 35% of their budget
Local Initiatives Support Corp
3× · 2022–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +135%
CF
Campaign for Working Families Inc
3× · 2021–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +131% · 49% of their budget

Funded once

AC
African Cultural Alliance of North Americagraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.4M · revenue +177%
PL
Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equitygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue +27% · 26% of their budget
CL
Community Legal Servicesgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal

Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

Philadelphia Chinatown Development

Pcdc provides bilingual, culturally sensitive assistance and services to clients in philadelphia's chinatown neighborhood

Community Improvement

Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families.

Crime & Legal

Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. strives to build a stronger workforce through career, skills training, employment services for career seekers, business services for employers, and labor market insights for smart workforce solutions and innovation.

Employment

Community Justice Project

Cjp engages in class action litigation, administrative law, legislative advocacy, and other forms of impact litigation to help create positive change for low-income residents across pennsylvania.

Crime & Legal

The Philadelphia Center

Empower those living with hiv, eliminate new hiv transmissions, and enhance community wellness.

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Frankford Community Development Corporation

The Frankford Community Development Corporation FCDC is dedicated to the asset-based development of Lower Northeast Philadelphia by focusing on job creation affordable and workforce housing development improving awareness and outcomes…

Housing & Shelter

Northeast Philadelphia Victim-Witness Se

Provide services to victims and witnesses of crime in the northeast philadelphia area.

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Philadelphia Association of CDCs

PACDC is a membership association of organizations committed to equitable neighborhood revitalization. We focus our efforts in two key areas: advocacy for systems reform and increased access to resources; and technical

Community Improvement

Coalition of African Communities - Philadelphia Africom

To advocate and organize so that immigrants and refugees feel a sense of belonging and self-sufficiency. The mission is achieved by facilitating access to health and social services.

Community Improvement

Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia

In order to promote social harmony and inter-religious understanding, Interfaith Philadelphia equips individuals and communities for interfaith engagement, builds collaborative relationships, and stands in solidarity with our diverse…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Community Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Reawakening Agency. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/34

the rest of the field

14%

1,343/9,562

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.

05the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/31

Grantees still filing

27/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$5,315,774Human Services$5,249,063Community Improvement$3,920,000Arts & Culture$3,509,246Other$2,254,166Health$200,000Food & Nutrition$195,000

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA48× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater · Scattergood Behavioral Health · Independence Public Media Of · Philadelphia Works Inc · Td Charitable 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 organisation THE PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Community College of Philadelphia Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up +86% since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232612695 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Community College of Philadelphia Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 94% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund?

More from the funding graph