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Next City Inc

Next City Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,222,601 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ATT MARC DE VENOGE ($2,151,542). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2024
28
Funders on record
$5.2M
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
11/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($768k) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($840k)2018 Revenue 97 ($742k) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 58 ($483k)2019 Revenue 112 ($860k) Expenses 92 ($1.1M) Net assets 29 ($246k)2020 Revenue 138 ($1.1M) Expenses 82 ($987k) Net assets 37 ($312k)2021 Revenue 138 ($1.1M) Expenses 93 ($1.1M) Net assets 30 ($249k)2022 Revenue 188 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 58 ($491k)2023 Revenue 185 ($1.4M) Expenses 99 ($1.2M) Net assets 87 ($733k)2024 Revenue 234 ($1.8M) Expenses 125 ($1.5M) Net assets 123 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (234)Expenses (125)Net assets (123)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$430k
17
$357k
18
$237k
19
$72k
20
$63k
21
$242k
22
$230k
23
$302k
24
1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $650k → $890k.

5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)4% 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 Next City Inc’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

Next City Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% 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

41%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 41% · 2019 48% · 2020 65% · 2021 48% · 2022 52% · 2023 39%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

27% of Next City Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

Next City Inc draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.

MI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
TX

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. $223k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

03Its place in the field

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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 Next City Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 Next City 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 23%Fundraising 17%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

51%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
PA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Next City 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.

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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 Next City Inc?
Next City Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,222,601 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ATT MARC DE VENOGE ($2,151,542). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Next City Inc have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,222,601 in grants to Next City Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Next City Inc?
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ATT MARC DE VENOGE is the largest funder on record, with $2,151,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Next City 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 28funders 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