Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,168 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($16,410). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia does
Mission
Center city residents' association promotes urban living, advocates for a safe, clean, diverse and supportive community, pursues accountability, and encourages responsible development while preserving the neighborhood's historic heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Center city residents' association (ccra) is a registered community organization in the city of philadelphia. As such, it reviews and comments upon zoning variance requests and participates in civic design reviews as requested by the city of philadelphia. In doing this, it takes into account the concerns of the community regarding design, density, historic preservation, the streetscape, construction, traffic, the environment and workforce diversity, among other issues. Ccra also works with private developers to negotiate community benefit agreements designed to address the same types of community issues. Ccra advocates on behalf of the community on issues such as zoning and historic preservation, safe streets and sidewalks for bicyclists and pedestrians, crime, noise, trash, the environment, and good government. Ccra helps the community stay informed and educated on local issues through its website, weekly and quarterly newsletters and social media. It also hosts forums and other gatherings on issues of interest to the community. Ccra provides sidewalk cleaning in the community and operates a community garden.
$151,392 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $151,392.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $193k to $282k (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $2k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
72% of Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $23k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia?
- Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,168 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($16,410). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $23,168 in grants to Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $16,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center City Residents' Association of Philadelphia find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing