Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC
PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,222,592 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($17,826,532). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $27M
What Philadelphia City Fund Inc does
Mission
The Philadelphia City Fund serves as the fiscal sponsor for the City of Philadelphia and leverages public-private partnerships in collaboration with the City, the philanthropic community, and the residents of Philadelphia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Philadelphia Marathon is unique in a running event in that it is produced and operated by the City of Philadelphia. The city hosts the international running community for a marathon and associated races (an exposition and half marathon) over the course of a weekend. In recent years, the annual total participation has averaged 31,000 people.
$2,645,015 spentof which $275,000 as grants$3,840,444 earned by the program11% of program spendingORU-Opioids Settlement Fund-Parks & Schools
$2,000,000 spentof which $2,000,000 as grants9% of program spendingOTIS-Spring Garden Street Connector
$1,995,000 spent9% of program spendingOther program
$16,578,783 spentof which $2,927,622 as grants$272,716 earned by the program71% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $23,218,798.
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 2023 to 2024, from $27M to $34M (+23%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 7% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2024 23% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Jody B Greenblatt
Executive director
Board chair
David Wilson
BOARD Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $4.5M.
5 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 84% · 2019 80% · 2020 49% · 2021 55% · 2022 81% · 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
19% of PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
72% of PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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
PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 366 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $443k on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$443k
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 PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND 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 PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC?
- PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,222,592 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($17,826,532). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $33,222,592 in grants to PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND INC?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,826,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA CITY FUND 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 59 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