Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CENTER IN THE PARK
CENTER IN THE PARK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,725,977 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($573,860). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Center in the Park does
Mission
Center in the Park promotes positive aging and fosters community connections for older adults whose voices are critical instruments in shaping its activities and direction.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing counseling, social services, and energy assistance: Center in the Park (cip) offers practical and compassionate social services for vulnerable older adults including short term assistance with personal care, home support, adaptive equipment and assistance applying for benefits and entitlements. Through contracts with the city of philadelphia department of housing and community development (dhcd), pa housing finance agency (phfa) and department of housing and urban development (hud) cip offers housing counseling for philadelphians of all ages with issues such as mortgage default and delinquency, eviction diversion, and assistance finding affordable housing. In addition, cip is a neighborhood energy center, providing utility assistance and conservation education for persons of all ages.
$471,354 spent$379,449 earned by the program34% of program spendingCenter services: cip is a wellness model senior center offering an extensive lifelong learning curriculum, including arts and humanities programing, recreational and socialization activities, and trip opportunities. Programs offered include pottery, technology classes, spanish, poetry and discussion, sewing, knitting and crocheting, card making, line dancing, piano lessons, a range of exercise programs, evidence-based health promotion programs and many other offerings such as trips and other recreational activities.
$135,110 spent$436,879 earned by the program10% of program spendingNutrition and meals: - approximately 80 older adults per day are served a nutritious, well-balanced lunch at no cost to individuals age 60+ and at a modest cost to those under 60. Cip also serves breakfast three days per week.
$198,838 spent$79,773 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services includes the following: phila. Long-term care ombudsman program (pltcop): through a contract with philadelphia corporation for aging (pca) cip provides ombudsman services and advocacy for residents of long-term care facilities in northwest and northeast philadelphia. Ombudsmen receive and mediate complaints from residents and their families, addressing issues of residents' rights, resident care, resident dignity, finances, and overall quality of care. They conduct facility visits, attend resident council meetings, as well as exit meetings with the department of health. Health and evidence based-programs: with a decades-long history of collaborative academic partnerships cip has established itself as a living laboratory for community-based research. This research has larger implications for senior centers locally and nationally, though development of evidence-based programs that may be replicated and/or adapted to meet the culturally diverse needs of older adults.
$574,745 spent$328,960 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,380,047.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2019 to 2020, from $746k to $1.1M (+42%).
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: 2017 74% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 70% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 61% · 2024 63% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CENTER IN THE PARK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $179k → $388k.
5 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 IN THE PARK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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 IN THE PARK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 IN THE PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 36% · 2019 26% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 47% · 2023 26% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of CENTER IN THE PARK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of CENTER IN THE PARK's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $661k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 IN THE PARK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER IN THE PARK
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Cip Housing LP · partnership
- Cip Development Corp · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER IN THE PARK: 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 IN THE PARK?
- CENTER IN THE PARK (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,725,977 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($573,860). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER IN THE PARK have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $2,725,977 in grants to CENTER IN THE PARK, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER IN THE PARK?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $573,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER IN THE PARK 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 41 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