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The Union League of Philadelphia at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Union League of Philadelphia

A patriotic, civic-minded social club that provides a full range of business, cultural and recreational activities for its members.

$550k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Civil Rights$3.5MMembership Benefit$213kYouth Development$60kEducation$40kRecreation & Sports$30kArts & Culture$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$550,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$245M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDING FORWARD$550,000
02The need
03

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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 6 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$3.9M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+52%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsCrime & LegalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AL
    ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · 38% of their budget
  • YW
    YOUTH WORK FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $40k

Funded once

  • PY
    PHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • BROAD STREET MINISTRY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -77%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

1
Police Athletic League of Philadelphia
Youth Development
2
Golf Association of Philadelphia Foundation
Recreation & Sports
3
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
4
Philadelphia Student Union

To contribute to the building of a more just and inclusive community by sponsoring programs which build relationships across racial and economic barriers.

Employment
5
South Philadelphia High School
Education
6
The Philadelphia Award
—
7
Wilt Chamberlain Memorial Fund Inc
Education
8
Philadelphia Community Foundation Inc
—
9
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
10
Delaware Valley Regional High School Education Association Phila
Education
11
The Northeast High School Alumni Foundation
—
12
Be Philly Foundation Inc

Be Philly Foundation provides financial support and increased visibility to charitable organizations with a proven track record of improving academic and economic outcomes of K-12 students in the city of Philadelphia.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Youth Organization; the most unlike its peers is Broad Street Ministry. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,695,415 · OtherABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA+3 more: $100,000 · OtherPGA REACH PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalAVENUE OF THE ARTS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$3,795,415Recreation & Sports$30,000Crime & Legal$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$10,000Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $3,695,415 over 9y, 38% of budgetYOUTH WORK FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF THE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPGA REACH PHILADELPHIA: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA POLICE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAVENUE OF THE ARTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 9 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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