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The Philly Service Award

The organization engages and inspires philadelphia's youth by funding high schools with grants for student-led community service projects. By taking a hands-on approach to their communities' challenges, students are changing the city from the inside out while carving their own path to civic leadership. Also, the organization celebrates…

$249k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$150k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$313k
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$251k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
School District of Philadelphia$60,0002n/a
Imhotep Institute Charter High School$21,00010%
Associated Alumni of Central High School of Philadelphia$20,00012%
Friends of Gw Carver Hses$20,0001n/a
Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School$20,00010%
Multicultural Academy Charter School$20,00010%
New Foundations Charter School$20,00010%
Philadelphia Academy Charter School$20,0001n/a
First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School$10,00010%
Office of Catholic Education$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of The Philly Service Award by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
School District of Philadelphia$60,0002n/a
Imhotep Institute Charter High School$21,00010%
Associated Alumni of Central High School of Philadelphia$20,00012%
Friends of Gw Carver Hses$20,0001n/a
Sankofa Freedom Academy Charter School$20,00010%
Multicultural Academy Charter School$20,00010%
New Foundations Charter School$20,00010%
Philadelphia Academy Charter School$20,0001n/a
First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School$10,00010%
Office of Catholic Education$10,0001n/a
Friends of Lankenau Environmental Science High School$10,000110%
Roman Catholic High School$10,0001n/a
Vocatio Career Prep High School$10,00012%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Philly Service Award supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetImhotep Institute Charter High School: $21,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAssociated Alumni of Central High School of Philadelphia: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSankofa Freedom Academy Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMulticultural Academy Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNew Foundations Charter School: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Lankenau Environmental Science High School: $10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetVocatio Career Prep High School: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Elevate 215PA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elevate 215 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Philly Service Award?

Find your warmest path to The Philly Service Award 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.

About The Philly Service Award

How much does The Philly Service Award give?
The Philly Service Award reported 10 itemized grants totaling $150,000, out of $249,327 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does The Philly Service Award fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are The Philly Service Award's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: School District of Philadelphia ($60k), Imhotep Institute Charter High School ($21k), Associated Alumni of Central High School of Philadelphia ($20k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Philly Service Award?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elevate 215, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Philly Service Award based?
The Philly Service Award is based in PA.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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