Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER
PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,917 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($196,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $509k
- Net assets
- $596k
What Philadelphia Community Empowerment Through Soccer does
Mission
We believe in community empowerment through soccer. Our mission is to work with kensington area youth and families to provide positive, healthy, and enjoyable youth soccer activities while building teamwork, leadership, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
After School Soccer and Enrichment: Our after-school programs bring soccer and enrichment right to the students, at their neighborhood schools, breaking down a key barrier to participation, so that families that are not able to provide transportation or other support, can still participate. Children experience the positive effect of group activity in a familiar, safe welcoming setting, supervised by caring coach-mentors. They set goals, challenge themselves, and are supported in overcoming set-backs. We connect those families who want more involvement to our community- based programs and our organization-wide enrichment events and activities. Our after-school programs have a special emphasis on literacy and nutrition through our Soccer Athletes Value Education (SAVE) curriculum. The goal of SAVE is to help children build healthy habits and excel in academics from an early age, to promote future success. We implement this by having nutrition-focused activities during practices and frequently giving out free books. We also offer a full-day summer camp, where soccer is combined with a variety of daily enrichment activities, and visits to museums, the Franklin Institute, and other…
$396,433 spent$969,171 earned by the program40% of program spendingCommunity Youth Soccer and Enrichment - Recreational soccer leagues, teaching soccer basics with the goal of providing safe spaces, increased exercise, learning teamwork and cooperation, and informal mentoring; - Travel teams, where children take the next step in their competitive soccer journey, playing at a higher level and building strong ties with teammates and coaches over a longer timespan; - Drop-in year-round youth recreational soccer at many sites in the community, to provide easily accessible healthy, safe opportunities to learn soccer and benefit from interacting with caring adult mentors; - Participation in a variety of community events, where our coaches support community partners by bringing soccer balls, pop-up goals and free books, to enhance the festive nature of the gathering and get books into the hands of more children. - Tournaments and other one-time soccer and enrichment opportunities ranging from end-of season family celebrations to attending professional soccer games free of charge; - Distribution of grocery store cards, backpacks, shirts and other items to provide help for needy families, with the help of partner organizations. Health and social service…
$170,775 spent$46,595 earned by the program17% of program spendingViolence Prevention Our violence prevention programs, mainly for teens and young adults, focuses on providing safe, healthy, positive alternatives to engaging in counterproductive behavior, on promoting pro-social activities, on anti- violence education, and on connecting participants to needed social services. They included: 1.Our Pick-Up Soccer For Peace and Friday Night Lights activities, take place when there are fewer positive options available to youth, and include discussions of alternatives to risky behaviors involving violence and drug use, incentives for pro-social engagement and the offer to connect participants with social services. 2. Our KSC Prep after-school teen program provided academic help and social and community engagement along with soccer. Teens participated in workshops, a career/college fair, and other activities, including a Black History Month writing activity. 3. KSCs Intervention & Prevention Coordinator facilitated connection to community resources for Friday Night Lights and KSC Prep enrollees and other club participants, some of which included getting behavioral health treatment. 4. Adult league teams offered a way for people over 18 to stay…
$303,435 spent$20,001 earned by the program31% of program spendingGeneral Programs - Leadership, Empowerment and Enrichment Our soccer programs are a vehicle for and a gateway to a variety of leadership, civic engagement, academic and work development activities These include: - JumpStart, our summer youth employment program, which features job experience, combined with community service and school and career readiness training.
$109,011 spent$27,294 earned by the program11% of program spending- Girls Empowerment, which gives girls leadership opportunities and supports them in leading civic engagement activities. - Youth Leadership Council, which gives our teenagers a vehicle for exercising leadership, giving KSC input into its future activities and direction, and leading community betterment projects of their choice. - SAVE - Soccer Athletes Value Education, which engages our youth and teenage participants in academic enrichment activities and
$0 spent0% of program spendingdistributes thousands of curated, high-quality books to program participants and community partners. - Other enrichment activities, ranging from community betterment projects to the distribution of food vouchers, toys for the holidays, and school supplies.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $979,654.
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 $321k to $825k (+157%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 14% · 2022 19% · 2023 15% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% 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.
Chief executive
James Hardy
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $86k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER’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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% — 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
75% of PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER's funders are still giving 3 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
60% of PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER'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 $203k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $306k 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.
Against its field
PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER?
- PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $508,917 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($196,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $508,917 in grants to PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $196,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT THROUGH SOCCER 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 14 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