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PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC

PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,248,232 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($18,479,032). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.9M
Revenue FY2024
36
Funders on record
$26M
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
22/36 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve25.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 183 ($2.5M) Expenses 137 ($2.9M) Net assets 65 ($792k)2020 Revenue 188 ($2.5M) Expenses 94 ($2.0M) Net assets 108 ($1.3M)2021 Revenue 195 ($2.6M) Expenses 99 ($2.1M) Net assets 149 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 230 ($3.1M) Expenses 134 ($2.8M) Net assets 179 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 247 ($3.3M) Expenses 146 ($3.1M) Net assets 226 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 364 ($4.9M) Expenses 208 ($4.4M) Net assets 260 ($3.2M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (364)Expenses (208)Net assets (260)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2021 7% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$774k
18
$430k
19
$538k
20
$526k
21
$254k
22
$227k
23
$496k
24
26
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $67k → $1.7M.

8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)1% 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 PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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

PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

70%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 61% · 2019 70% · 2020 72% · 2021 41% · 2022 78% · 2023 30%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

47% of PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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

PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 11 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
OR
IN
PA
RI
NC
DC
GA
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. $220k 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.

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 36 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 PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $750k on record — $750k federal, $225 state.

Federal$750k
grants $750kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$750k
State$225
Top programs
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$225

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 PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES 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

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

38%

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 1 related entity

  • Partners for Sacred Places S O · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES 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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Questions and answers

Who funds PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC?
PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,248,232 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($18,479,032). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC have?
IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $26,248,232 in grants to PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC?
LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,479,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 36funders 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