Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Philadelphia City Rowing Inc
Philadelphia City Rowing Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,836,758 to it, the largest being PTS FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $991k
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $636k
What Philadelphia City Rowing Inc does
Mission
Philadelphia City Rowing, Inc. strives to recruit, train, educate and empower young people so that they can use the lessons learned on the water to experience success in all facets of life. Our year round competitive rowing program is provided to Philadelphia public school students entirely free.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
High School program brings Philadelphia Public School students out onto the Schuylkill River and creates a safe place for them to find their strengths, grow together as a team, and make college a reality. Each year we serve 80 participants in this program. Practices take place six days per week throughout the school year, and include tutoring and academic support, mentoring, rowing and fitness instruction, and local and regional racing opportunities. We provide healthy snacks, team uniforms, swimming instruction, and public transportation tokens to eliminate the financial burden of participation on their families and ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Program objectives for our high school program include: improved fitness and overall health, promote academic achievement and college/career readiness, provide mentoring and leadership development opportunities, and create opportunities for civic engagement and environmental stewardship.
$533,118 spent64% of program spendingMiddle School Program introduces students to the sport of rowing and lays the ground work for future participation in our high school program. This program serves more than 90 students annually, teaching them the basics of the rowing stroke and engaging them in games and other activities that promote overall health and well-being. Our Middle School Program serves students in 7th and 8th grade and meets three-days per week for eight weeks at a time. We offer both a spring and fall program. Nutrition education, environmental education, and swim lessons are also an integral part of the program.
$220,841 spent26% of program spendingSummer Learn-To-Row Camps serve rising 7th through 10th graders and meets five days per week for two weeks at a time. There are three sessions. Each year our summer camps teach 120 Philadelphia public school students the basics of the rowing stroke and engage them in games and other activities that promote overall health and well-being. Nutrition education, environmental education, and swim lessons are also an integral part of the program.
$84,402 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $838,361.
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 2021 to 2022, from $668k to $1.5M (+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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Philadelphia City Rowing Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $95k → $629k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 City Rowing Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 Rowing Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 36% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
27% 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 City Rowing Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 45% · 2019 61% · 2020 47% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of Philadelphia City Rowing Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
80% of Philadelphia City Rowing 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. $990k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Rowing Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,537 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,537 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Philadelphia City Rowing 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Philadelphia City Rowing Inc?
- Philadelphia City Rowing Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,836,758 to it, the largest being PTS FOUNDATION ($1,375,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Philadelphia City Rowing Inc have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,836,758 in grants to Philadelphia City Rowing Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Philadelphia City Rowing Inc?
- PTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Philadelphia City Rowing 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.
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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 38 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