Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,173,483 to it, the largest being THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC ($5,200,000). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The University of the Artsshared funders
- T-2961 Charitable Trust Uw T Luce Xxxxx1005portfolio match
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.
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: 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 58 funders, grant income rose $438k → $10M.
15 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 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
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 19% · 2019 25% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 49% — 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
46% of HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 125 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The University of the Artsshared fundersPA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- T-2961 Charitable Trust Uw T Luce Xxxxx1005portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Falconhead Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Satell Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Vert Charitable Trust UA 12222011shared fundersPA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- The Patricia Kind Family Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 117 organizations that share your funders
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared fundersPA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders
- Independence Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 124 organizations that share your funders
- The Allen Hilles Fundshared fundersPA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- The Maguire Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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 HEIGHTS 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA?
- HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 125 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,173,483 to it, the largest being THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC ($5,200,000). 82 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 125 organizations giving $26,173,483 in grants to HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA, 82 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA?
- THE TOWNSEND FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEIGHTS 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 125funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing