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Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance

Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,622 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,251). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$619k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$427k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance does

Mission

The Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance Provides Opportunities to learn, teach, and play ultimate frisbee while fostering community character, and competition within the greater Philadelphia region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Philadelphia Disc Alliance (PADA) ran 20 seasonal disc sport leagues and 2 tournaments that engaged over 1,000 players ages 6-60 in the greater Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware Regions.

    $501,219 spent$528,498 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. PADA Combine: In partnership with five local club teams, PADA hosted a club combine where 134 people attended

  3. In August 2022, PADA hosted a youth summer camp at Edgely for students entering middle school the following academic year. Our adult members raised over $7,000 to help subsidize these costs for students.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $501,219.

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 ($329k) Expenses 100 ($331k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 93 ($307k) Expenses 93 ($308k) Net assets 101 ($205k)2019 Revenue 116 ($380k) Expenses 116 ($384k) Net assets 99 ($201k)2020 Revenue 33 ($108k) Expenses 63 ($209k) Net assets 50 ($101k)2021 Revenue 110 ($363k) Expenses 81 ($269k) Net assets 99 ($201k)2022 Revenue 126 ($416k) Expenses 126 ($416k) Net assets 101 ($206k)2023 Revenue 177 ($581k) Expenses 179 ($592k) Net assets 97 ($196k)2024 Revenue 217 ($712k) Expenses 165 ($547k) Net assets 178 ($361k)2025 Revenue 188 ($619k) Expenses 167 ($553k) Net assets 211 ($427k)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (167)Net assets (211)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 2023 to 2024, from $228k to $372k (+64%).

$203k
$205k
$201k
$124k
$210k
$206k
$228k
$372k
$434k
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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: 2020 2% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 16,168 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$3k
’17
−$720
’18
−$4k
’19
−$101k
’20
$94k
’21
−$319
’22
−$11k
’23
$165k
’24
$66k
’25
9.0
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.

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Listed131515141211121212
Joined·+5+4+4+1+2+2+2+0
No longer listed·34533120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $304 → $2k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance’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

Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

90% 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 Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance.

50%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states.

NY
PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve9.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance?
Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,622 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($12,251). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $24,622 in grants to Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,251 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Philadelphia Area Disc Alliance 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 6 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