Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION
GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($90). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $90
- Net assets
- $125k
What Greater Philadelphia Falun Dafa Association does
Mission
To provide assistance free of charge to people interested in learning Falun Dafa a self-cultivation practice of Buddha School; to host the Shen Yun Performing Arts shows because traditional Chinese culture has deep spiritual core values of reverence for the divine benevolence propriety tolerance and other virtues.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
For FYE 6 30 2025 GPFDA hosted the Shen Yun Performing Arts for 6 performances in Philadelphia PA and 3 performances in Pittsburgh PA. Altogether there were 9 performances and 11,952 live audiences. Both short-term and long-term objectives are to revive the traditional Chinese civilization by ways of promoting the Shen Yun Performing Arts. Cultivation of virtues and improvement of moral characters were distilled from the 5000-year ancient civilization via historical stories myths and legends. Shen Yun Performances bring stories alive on stage through classical Chinese dances folk and ethnic dances opera singing dynamic backdrops and live orchestra.
$1,565,662 spent$1,368,168 earned by the program100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,565,662.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $23k to $1.1M (+4516%).
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: 2022 52% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $25 → $30.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION’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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION has grown faster 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
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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 1 related entity
- Greater Philadelphia Association for Chinese Culture · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION: 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 FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION?
- GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $90 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($90). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $90 in grants to GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER PHILADELPHIA FALUN DAFA ASSOCIATION 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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