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MT AIRY USA

MT AIRY USA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,806,404 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($623,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.2M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$68k
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Mt Airy USA does

Mission

Preservation, empowerment and advancement of a vibrant mt. Airy section of philadelphia by stimulating development of the community's needs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Real estate development work to remove blight, push markets, and attract private investment to commercial corridors and residential neighborhoods through scattered-site residential rehab and large-scale mixed-use development, as well as transit-oriented development. In addition, the organization self-manages its real estate portfolio and provides an array of property management services. Regular services include lease management and tenant negotiation, performance of ongoing maintenance and capital improvement projects, analysis of portfolio financial performance, preparation of annual property budgets, maintenance of loan portfolio compliance and risk management.

    $666,609 spent$667,558 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  2. Neighborhood programs work to improve the quality of life for neighbors through services, housing counseling to first-time homebuyers and distressed homeowners.

    $336,882 spent$578,033 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  3. Community programs which include the mt. Airy schools coalition, the healthy aging initiative, lovett park programming, and various community events such as supper sessions on the avenue, moonlight movies, mt. Airy monday markets, and autumn on the avenue.

    $897,001 spent
    44% of program spending
  4. Business district revitalization work to improve the business climate along mt. Airy's main street, germantown avenue, through streetscape and place-making improvements and the operation of a program to provide business owners with a host of services including marketing, technical assistance and event planning.

    $122,773 spent
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,023,265.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($902k)2018 Revenue 168 ($2.6M) Expenses 116 ($2.3M) Net assets 131 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 120 ($1.8M) Expenses 109 ($2.1M) Net assets 96 ($865k)2020 Revenue 94 ($1.4M) Expenses 88 ($1.7M) Net assets 64 ($576k)2021 Revenue 152 ($2.3M) Expenses 82 ($1.6M) Net assets 144 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 88 ($1.3M) Expenses 101 ($2.0M) Net assets 75 ($677k)2023 Revenue 108 ($1.6M) Expenses 91 ($1.8M) Net assets 61 ($554k)2024 Revenue 125 ($1.9M) Expenses 113 ($2.2M) Net assets 28 ($254k)2025 Revenue 146 ($2.2M) Expenses 123 ($2.4M) Net assets 8 ($68k)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (123)Net assets (8)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4.2M to $5.0M (+20%).

$5.1M
$5.6M
$4.9M
$4.2M
$5.0M
$4.4M
$4.9M
$4.2M
$4.1M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2021 7% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$433k
’17
$278k
’18
−$315k
’19
−$289k
’20
$723k
’21
−$623k
’22
−$123k
’23
−$300k
’24
−$186k
’25
2.6
months of
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

Philip Dawson

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131517201816131213
Joined·+2+2+5+5+4+1+2+1
No longer listed·00276430
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $72k → $567k.

5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 MT AIRY USA’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

MT AIRY USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

39% 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 MT AIRY USA.

34%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 46% · 2019 67% · 2020 54% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 71% — 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

14% of MT AIRY USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 MT AIRY USA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

ME
NY
PA
NJ
DE
NC
DC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $559k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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

Organizations like MT AIRY USA

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Wagon Wheel LLC · disregarded
  • Mt Airy Special Service District LLC · disregarded
  • Montana LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds MT AIRY USA?
MT AIRY USA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,806,404 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($623,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MT AIRY USA have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,806,404 in grants to MT AIRY USA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MT AIRY USA?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $623,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MT AIRY USA 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing