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Urban Affairs Coalition

Driving change from the ground up, the URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION (uac) unites government, business, neighborhoods, and individual initiatives to improve the quality of life in the region, build wealth in urban communities, and solve emerging issues.

$442k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
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.

Education$8.3MRecreation & Sports$3.9MPublic Benefit$946kHousing & Shelter$307kHealth$235kEmployment$114kCommunity Improvement$111kYouth Development$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $300,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $442,397 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $142,397 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $290k
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALTON SCOTT INC DBA HARAKA RUN AND WALK$200,000
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION$90,000
GLOBAL CITIZENS MLK$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $90k → 12%WORLD COMMUNICATION CHARTER SCHOOL: $8.3M → 22%CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND: $946k → 10%GERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC: $23k → 4%WALTON SCOTT INC DBA HARAKA RUN AND WALK: $200k → 11%COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $24k → 12%CULTURE CHANGING CHRISTIANS: $25k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ACTIVITIES FUND: $2.4M → 22%CULTURE CHANGING CHRISTIANS: $20k → 22%OLNEY COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE: $35k → 22%PHILADELPHIA ACTIVITIES FUND: $1.2M → 22%SOUTH STREET HEADHOUSE FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $213k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE: $13k → 22%CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $13k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE: $10k → 22%PHILADANCO: $10k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE: $10k → 22%PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH: $10k → 22%FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $66k → 22%BLACKSTAR PROJECTS: $10k → 22%BLACKSTAR PROJECTS: $9k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOME BUY NOW PROGRAM: $81k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOME BUY NOW PROGRAM: $50k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOME BUY NOW PROGRAM: $48k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOME BUY NOW PROGRAM: $48k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOME BUY NOW PROGRAM: $48k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 22%CITY OF PHILADELPHIA DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $12k → 22%GLOBAL CITIZENS MLK: $10k → 22%GLOBAL CITIZENS MLK: $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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 8 repeat orgs$9.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$4.4M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
0%

Still filing today

63%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
HealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +21%
  • PJ
    PENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue +144%
  • URBAN AFFAIRS COALITION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • WC
    WORLD COMMUNICATIONS CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $8.3M
  • CF
    CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS
    one grant, 2024 · $946k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
    one grant, 2023 · $66k · revenue -6%
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
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Philadelphia Community Foundation Inc
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3
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
4
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
5
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

—
6
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
7
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
8
The Philadelphia Award
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9
Philadelphia Dance Projects

To be an advocate for dance in philadelphia by presenting stimulating performances, workshops, classes, dialogs and forums for artists, aspiring artists, students, and a broad-based audience.

Arts & Culture
10
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
11
Philadelphia Public Access Corporation

Phillycam provides transformative opportunities for people and communities to express themselves, to learn from each other, and to produce and share media reflective of the experiences of everyday people.

—
12
NORTH10 Philadelphia
Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Activities Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,328,526 · OtherWORLD COMMUNICATIONS CHARTER SCHOOLCITY OF PHILADELPHIA: $307,000 · Other+6 more: $424,293 · OtherPHILADELPHIA ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $3,650,855 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA ACTIVITIES FUND …CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $946,442 · Civil RightsTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $225,000 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $10,000 · HealthFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $65,775 · Youth DevelopmentPENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC: $19,000 · Arts & CulturePhiladelphia Dance Company: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC: $23,049 · Philanthropy
Other$9,059,819Recreation & Sports$3,650,855Civil Rights$946,442Health$235,000Youth Development$98,275Arts & Culture$29,000Philanthropy$23,049

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILADELPHIA ACTIVITIES FUND INC: $3,650,855 over 2y, 36% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS: $946,442 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $65,775 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA JUNETEENTH INITIATIVE INC: $32,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetGERALDINE R DODGE FOUNDATION INC: $23,049 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Dance Company: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Urban Affairs Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Affairs Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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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