Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,901,367 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,999,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.4M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $6.9M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance does
Mission
We lead, strengthen, and amplify the voices of greater philadelphia's cultural community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 1972, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance has served as the leading and trusted voice of the arts and culture sector in greater philadelphia, harnessing the power of our creative coalition to deliver research, advocacy, and access to resources that drive meaningful impact for the sector and the region as a whole. Programs include: trusted research and data that illuminates sector health and trends; mobilizing and advocating for greater philadelphia's arts and culture sector; cultivating workforce development and job growth; stewarding and distributing funding to arts and culture organizations through transparent, equitable grantmaking processes; and convening artists, civic leaders, creative entrepreneurs, stakeholders and community members to help bolster the sector.
$2,817,207 spentof which $874,474 as grants$322,761 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,817,207.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.2M (+44%).
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 19% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 16% · 2021 19% · 2022 32% · 2023 20% · 2024 31% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Patricia Wilson Aden
President & CEO
Board chair
Gerald Veasley
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $74k → $1.5M.
7 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $738k from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 86% · 2020 20% · 2021 73% · 2022 95% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
29% of GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE'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
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $661k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$130k
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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE
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
46%
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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE: 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE?
- GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,901,367 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,999,600). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $6,901,367 in grants to GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE?
- THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,999,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL ALLIANCE 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 39 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