Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,510 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2018
- $34k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $167k
What Geographical Society of Philadelphia does
Mission
Educate members on foreign cultures
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
All income enables the organization to engage in lectures and programs by world explorers and scholars that educate the organizations membership and guests on foreign customs
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $151k to $167k (+11%).
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.
40% of GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $11k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% — 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
95% of GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 114 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 114 social science nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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 GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,510 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $10,510 in grants to GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 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