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Victory Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$931k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$175k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$4.9MEducation$800kYouth Development$116kHealth$13kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $722k
$12,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY$175,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$125,000
PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION$100,000
THE KENNEDY CENTER$97,000
PIG IRON THEATER$75,000
ALLENS LANE ART CENTER$50,000
PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS$50,000
CULTURAL TRUST ART PHILLY$50,000
ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY$30,000
LANTERN THEATER COMPANY$25,000
BARNES FOUNDATION$25,000
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
YES AND COLLABORATIVE ARTS$15,000
FABRIC WORKSHOP AND MUSEUM$12,000
WILMA THEATER$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $65k → 11%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $162k → 14%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%PIG IRON THEATER: $75k → 22%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $97k → 14%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $51k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION: $180k → 17%THE KENNEDY CENTER: $27k → 14%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $25k → 11%BROADWAY DREAMS FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $200k → 22%PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS: $25k → 11%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $175k → 22%PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION: $73k → 17%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $150k → 22%PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION: $61k → 17%SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $150k → 22%PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION: $43k → 17%ENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY: $25k → 22%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $150k → 22%BARNES FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%BARNES FOUNDATION: $50k → 22%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%THE BARNES FOUNDATION: $25k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $75k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $75k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $50k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $25k → 22%PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $20k → 22%THEATRE PHILADELPHIA (ALLIANCE OF GREATER PHILA): $27k → 22%FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL: $20k → 22%ALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $50k → 22%GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $105k → 22%CULTURAL TRUST GREATER PHILA ARTPHILLY 2016: $50k → 22%CULTURAL TRUST ART PHILLY: $50k → 22%LANTERN THEATER COMPANY: $25k → 22%ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $30k → 22%THEATRE PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%THEATRE PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%THEATRE PHILADELPHIA: $25k → 22%PORTSIDE ARTS CENTER: $75k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
CA
UT
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 36 repeat orgs$424k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
27

Total granted

$5.5M
$209k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+18%

Still filing today

86%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther
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

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +28%
  • SC
    SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $695k · revenue +34%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    4× · 2018–2021 · $624k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CT
    CULTURAL TRUST GREATER PHILA ARTPHILLY 2016
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TP
    THEATRE PHILADELPHIA (ALLIANCE OF GREATER PHILA)
    one grant, 2023 · $27k
  • Sundance Institute
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -29%
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 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

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2
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
3
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation

The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
4
Center Stage Associates Inc

See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…

Arts & Culture
5
The Pennsylvania Ballet Association

To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…

Arts & Culture
6
Washington Performing Arts Society

Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…

Arts & Culture
7
Play On Philly

Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.

Arts & Culture
8
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc

See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…

Arts & Culture
9
Fm Kirby Center for the Performing Arts

It is the mission of the f. m. kirby center to foster the development of the arts by promoting, producing, and causing to be produced theatrical productions, exhibits and other entertainment as deemed to have a benefical impact. continued…

Arts & Culture
10
Apollo Theater Foundation Inc

The apollo theater is a commissioner and presenter; catalyst for new artists, audiences, and creative workforce; and partner in the projection of the african american narrative and its role in the development of american and global…

Arts & Culture
11
Balletx

Balletx expands the vocabulary of contemporary ballet for all audiences through innovative performances, world premiere choreography, dance education, and community programs.

Arts & Culture
12
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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

53 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. 53 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $1,569,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $624,348 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $404,670 · Arts & CultureTHE BARNES FOUNDATIONGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $122,500 · Arts & Culture+34 more: $809,375 · Arts & Culture+34 moreSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $695,000 · EducationSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT H…PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $399,350 · EducationPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY …+3 more: $27,500 · EducationTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $285,500 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CE…PORTSIDE ARTS CENTER: $108,500 · OtherPORTSIDE ARTS …PIG IRON THEATER: $75,000 · OtherPIG IRON THEAT…Carnegie Mellon University: $67,000 · OtherCarnegie Mello…CULTURAL TRUST GREATER PHILA ARTPHILLY 2016: $50,000 · OtherCULTURAL TRUST…THEATRE PHILADELPHIA (ALLIANCE OF GREATER PHILA): $27,000 · Other+18 more: $118,000 · Other+18 morePRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $471,500 · PhilanthropyPRINCESS …+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $12,000 · EmploymentAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentArts-Kids Inc: $1,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$3,529,893Education$1,121,850Other$731,000Philanthropy$478,500Employment$12,000Youth Development$9,500

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 MUSEUM OF ART: $1,569,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY: $695,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $624,348 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA: $471,500 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $404,670 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS: $399,350 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: $122,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $116,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBroadway Dreams Foundation Corporation: $107,500 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetTHEATRE PHILADELPHIA: $75,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $67,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLENS LANE ART CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetARDEN THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetENCHANTMENT THEATRE COMPANY: $40,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetTHE WILMA THEATER: $37,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAMUEL S FLEISHER ART MEMORIAL INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHEATRE HORIZON INC: $32,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLANTERN THEATER COMPANY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYes And Collaborative Arts: $17,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSundance Institute: $13,375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM: $13,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACTING WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: $12,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Fabric Workshop and Museum: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALLER PUERTORRIQUENO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EMERGING VISUAL ARTISTS LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPHILADELPHIA SCENIC WORKS: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYHOUSE ARTISTS: $8,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES PARTNERSHIPS: $8,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWHARTON ESHERICK MUSEUM: $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPATH FUND INC: $7,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetUTAH SYMPHONY & OPERA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER CHARTER SCHOLARS ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN POPS ORCHESTRA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKSTAR PROJECTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC ART: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Cult…The William Penn Foun…The Philadelphia Foun…Independence Foundati…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Wyncote FoundationLindback Cr & Mf Foun…The University of the…The Barra Foundation …The Pew Charitable Tr…Connelly FoundationThe Lida Foundation
The Philadelphia Cultural Fund IncPA48.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Independence Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Wyncote Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The University of the Arts · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Connelly Foundation · The Lida 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Victory Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Victory Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Victory Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Victory Foundation 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.

    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 72 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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