How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Pennsylvania?

Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Pennsylvania, currently The Pew Charitable Trusts, The William Penn Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Pennsylvania from out of state.

How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Pennsylvania?

$2.7B reached 2,226 arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania, from 4,522 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Pennsylvania · Arts and culture

Who funds arts and culture in Pennsylvania

Arts and culture funding in Pennsylvania is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Philadelphia Museum of Art leads, and the money reaches 2,226 groups.

$2.7B

granted

2,226

organizations

59%

from in-state

The short version

4,522 funders gave $2.7B to 2,226 arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
59% of that came from funders also based in Pennsylvania; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of arts and culture in Pennsylvania is The Pew Charitable Trusts, at $135M.
The arts and culture organization drawing the most is Philadelphia Museum of Art, at $173M.

Largest funders of arts and culture in Pennsylvania

The funders giving the most to arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1The Pew Charitable Trusts$135M 2The William Penn Foundation$116M 3Corporation for Public Broadcasting$106M 4The Heinz Endowments$89M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$85M 6Richard King Mellon Foundation$79M 7National Philanthropic Trust$61M 8Silicon Valley Community Foundation$57M 9Hess Foundation Inc$52M 10The Pittsburgh Foundation$52M

Arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,216 other arts and culture organizations$1.9B

Philadelphia Museum of Art$173M The University of the Arts$115M

How to find arts and culture funders in Pennsylvania

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Start with the funders already active in Pennsylvania
The funders giving the most to arts and culture in Pennsylvania are The Pew Charitable Trusts, The William Penn Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. A funder already writing arts and culture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
41% of arts and culture money in Pennsylvania comes from funders elsewhere, so national arts and culture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Pennsylvania.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a arts and culture nonprofit in Pennsylvania?: Start with the funders already giving to arts and culture in Pennsylvania, currently The Pew Charitable Trusts, The William Penn Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Then look at who funds the arts and culture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Pennsylvania from out of state.
Who is the largest arts and culture funder in Pennsylvania?: The Pew Charitable Trusts gives the most to arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania, $135M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to arts and culture in Pennsylvania?: $2.7B reached 2,226 arts and culture organizations in Pennsylvania, from 4,522 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Pennsylvania.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.