Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,789,340 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($5,703,746). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 102
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia does
Mission
Culturetrust's mission is to provide a charitable home and shared management resources for fiscally sponsored projects in the arts, culture, heritage and social impact sectors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fiscal sponsorship: culturetrust (the "trust") is an independent charitable trust managed by cultureworks greater philadelphia. In fy25, the trust served as the legal, financial, and administrative home for 99 fiscally sponsored projects across the arts, culture, heritage, and social impact sectors. Projects share the trust's nonprofit status and receive management resources and back-office support from cultureworks, the trust administrator, which allows projects to increase operational efficiency in support of their own missions. The trust does not run its own programming; all revenues and expenses are related to the activities of fiscally sponsored projects themselves. The trust and trust administrator steward project funds and ensure compliance with charitable guidelines.
$6,093,637 spentof which $1,344,971 as grants$725,471 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,093,637.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.1M to $7.7M (+154%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 8% · 2020 12% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 5% · 2024 5% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $348k → $3.9M.
22 of 102 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Foundation); $36k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA raised.
From the IRS filings of CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 102 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
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
36% 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 CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 30% · 2019 32% · 2020 55% · 2021 27% · 2022 61% · 2023 53% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
64% of CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA is better cushioned than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $200k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$200k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CULTURETRUST GREATER 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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
- The Keeping Society LLC · disregarded
- Cultureworks Greater Philadelphia · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CULTURETRUST GREATER 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 CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 102 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,789,340 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($5,703,746). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 102 organizations giving $17,789,340 in grants to CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,703,746 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURETRUST GREATER 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.
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 102 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing