Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association
Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,650 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($285,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $439k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association does
Mission
To foster success business growth and economic betterment of the lancaster avenue business corridor and the city of philadelphia and to provide training and the environment to help new and established businesses address the difficulties of starting , maintaining and navigating steps to success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The scale up your business program trains, coaches, and supports the next generation of sustainable, scalable, and replicable businesses.
$452,507 spent29% of program spendingLancasteravenue supports businesses by providing technical assistance for almost all aspects of business cycle.
$271,502 spent18% of program spendingResponsible for cleaning twenty blocks of the lancaster avenue commercial corridor. This responsibility is managed by directly organizing a cleaning crew and collaborating with business owners to ensure they understand their responsibilities.
$814,502 spent53% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,538,511.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $117k to $258k (+120%).
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: 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 83% · 2023 81% · 2024 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kwaku Boateng
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $58k.
From the IRS filings of Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 79% · 2023 65% — 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
Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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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
85% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business 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 Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association?
- Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,650 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($285,550). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $438,650 in grants to Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business Association?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $285,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lancaster Avenue 21st Century Business 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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