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MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC

MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,350 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$113k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$367k
Net assets
$297k
4/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Minds Matter of Philadelphia Inc does

Mission

Philadelphia is a nonprofit mentoring program for high achieving, low income high school students. The goal is to guide philadelphia students from freshman year through graduation in gaining acceptance to college and preparing for real world success.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Over the course of four years, minds matter provides over 160 hours of in-person tutoring in math, writing, critical thinking and standardized test preparation. Minds matter provides each student with two dedicated college-educated mentors that provide over 150 hours of in-class support to their mentee. Minds matter allows students to attend two prestigious college summer programs at no cost to the family.

    $126,548 spentof which $115,199 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $126,548.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($67k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2018 Revenue 176 ($148k) Expenses 122 ($81k) Net assets 265 ($107k)2019 Revenue 190 ($160k) Expenses 138 ($91k) Net assets 393 ($159k)2020 Revenue 202 ($170k) Expenses 95 ($63k) Net assets 656 ($265k)2021 Revenue 164 ($138k) Expenses 112 ($75k) Net assets 813 ($329k)2022 Revenue 128 ($107k) Expenses 132 ($88k) Net assets 862 ($348k)2023 Revenue 98 ($82k) Expenses 166 ($110k) Net assets 792 ($320k)2024 Revenue 170 ($143k) Expenses 197 ($131k) Net assets 821 ($332k)2025 Revenue 134 ($113k) Expenses 222 ($148k) Net assets 735 ($297k)
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Revenue (134)Expenses (222)Net assets (735)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $159k to $265k (+67%).

$44k
$107k
$159k
$265k
$329k
$348k
$320k
$332k
$297k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
$67k
’18
$69k
’19
$106k
’20
$63k
’21
$20k
’22
−$28k
’23
$12k
’24
−$35k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Jordan Koslosky

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $93k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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

MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

82% 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 MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC.

49%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 86% · 2020 59% · 2021 52% · 2022 75% · 2023 97% — 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

60% of MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

71% of MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC'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. Of the $106k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states.

PA
CA
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC's revenue grew 34% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−31% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

68%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC?
MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $367,350 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($180,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $367,350 in grants to MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC?
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MINDS MATTER OF PHILADELPHIA INC find more funders?
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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