Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHANTOMS CHARITIES
PHANTOMS CHARITIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $541,441 to it, the largest being AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION ($250,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $208k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $266k
What Phantoms Charities does
Mission
To strengthen the community by developing, instituting and operatingcharitable and educational programs and services aimed at improvingthe lives of children and adults in the lehigh valley and thesurrounding communities, with a special emphasis on youth health,fitness, sports and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Phantoms Charities works with other nonprofits to allocate hockey game tickets for intended purposes where the tickets are often "earned" by the children and their families. For example, tickets may be reward for attendance and reading incentives for students.
$13,680 spentof which $13,680 as grants18% of program spendingThe grants program empowers other area nonprofit organizations to make a difference in the community by providing grant funding to select lehigh valley-based 501(c)(3) organizations for education or charitable tax exempt purposes that align closely with the mission statement of Phantoms Charities.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants13% of program spendingThe phys ed program provides floor hockey sports equipment and a detailed curriculum to area schools in an effort to encourage students to be active. Phantoms Charities donates floor hockey equipment including hockey sticks, goals, balls, pucks, cones, jerseys and an organizer hauler, along with a detailed curriculum designed to benefit the entire school population for years to come.
$7,325 spentof which $7,325 as grants10% of program spendingAdaptive sled hockey program $6,572youth reading program $0donations 50/50 charity partners $36,668
$43,240 spentof which $43,240 as grants58% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,245.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $357k to $258k (−28%).
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.
27% of PHANTOMS CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $164k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 PHANTOMS CHARITIES’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
PHANTOMS CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 PHANTOMS CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 98% · 2023 61% — 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
80% of PHANTOMS CHARITIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
53% of PHANTOMS CHARITIES'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 $256k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $286k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
PHANTOMS CHARITIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PHANTOMS CHARITIES
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
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 PHANTOMS CHARITIES: 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 PHANTOMS CHARITIES?
- PHANTOMS CHARITIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $541,441 to it, the largest being AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION ($250,150). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHANTOMS CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $541,441 in grants to PHANTOMS CHARITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHANTOMS CHARITIES?
- AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHANTOMS CHARITIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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