Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
KIMMEL CENTER INC
KIMMEL CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,295,454 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,248,488). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
KIMMEL CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared funders
- Victory Foundationportfolio match
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared funders
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: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 28% · 2022 15% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of KIMMEL CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 41 funders, grant income rose $999k → $1.4M.
15 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $1.5M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KIMMEL CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KIMMEL CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 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
KIMMEL CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
41% 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 KIMMEL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 17% · 2019 26% · 2020 12% · 2021 19% · 2022 17% · 2023 18% — 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.
How long its funders stay
41% of KIMMEL CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
76% of KIMMEL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 statesis 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 103 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Victory Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Poor Richard's Charitable Trustshared fundersPA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- The Gordon Charter Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 93 organizations that share your funders
- The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- The Patricia Kind Family Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsshared fundersPA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- Beatty Helen D Groome Uwshared fundersPA · backs 48 organizations that share your funders
- The Allen Hilles Fundshared fundersPA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Foundation for Delaware Countyshared fundersPA · backs 42 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.
Government funding KIMMEL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record — $181k federal, $4k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$181k
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$4k
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 KIMMEL CENTER INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Kc Broad St Theater LLC · disregarded
- Academy of Music of Philadelphia Inc · exempt
- Philadelphia Orchestra Association · exempt
- The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc · exempt
- Ticket Philadelphia · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KIMMEL CENTER INC: 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 KIMMEL CENTER INC?
- KIMMEL CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,295,454 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($2,248,488). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KIMMEL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $15,295,454 in grants to KIMMEL CENTER INC, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KIMMEL CENTER INC?
- THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,248,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KIMMEL CENTER INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 103funders 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