Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,947,596 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($4,650,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 138
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates Inc does
Mission
Mural arts - the city of philadelphia mural arts program unites artists and communities through a collaborative process rooted in the traditions of mural making, to create art that transforms public spaces and individual lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public art & civic engagement - for over 40 years, mural arts has worked with communities to create a collection that has made philadelphia "the mural capital of the world." we serve geographic and affiliated communities throughout the entire city of philadelphia and produce approximately 120 public art projects annually. Mural arts leads projects designed to address the unique local needs of different communities, with the common threads of producing exceptional artwork and artists engaged in deeply rooted community practices as the infrastructure for change. We work closely with key stakeholders throughout the project development phase to channel their experiences, identities and ideas into the direction of each project.
$8,413,866 spentof which $336,000 as grants$3,599,419 earned by the program62% of program spendingPorch light - mural arts' porch light department situates art and human connection at the heart of recovery, resilience, and healing throughout philadelphia. In collaboration with a carefully selected cohort of public health clinics and social service agencies, porch light employs a deeply collaborative creative process, led by highly qualified artists, in order to achieve tangible social benefit for people, communities, and organizations. Mural arts has collaborated closely with the department of behavioral health and intellectual disability services (dbhids) to design programs since 2007. Porch light also leads color me back, mural arts' same-day work and pay program, which was established in 2019 and has reached over 1000 participants that are experiencing housing or economic insecurity.
$1,784,030 spent$1,557,831 earned by the program13% of program spendingRestorative justice - mural arts serves between 50 and 75 justice-impacted individuals annually through the guild, the rec crew, prison programs and other restorative justice themed projects. Participants in the guild and rec crew develop career skills through daily workshops and exposure to career/education pathways. The rj programs further provide supportive relationships, and non-judgmental spaces where returning citizens and other justice-impacted people can reimagine themselves as valuable and capable. We use a trauma-informed approach to support individual members, while striving to restore justice-impacted communities throughout philadelphia.
$1,647,783 spent$1,126,071 earned by the program12% of program spendingArt education - mural arts' art education program provides free art education and integration courses for over 2000 youth (age 10-18) at 15 partner sites and offers art activities at recreation centers across philadelphia. In many cases, we provide the only opportunity for our students to engage with the arts. Afterschool programming tracks vary by type and difficulty, including beginner and intermediate muralism, entrepreneurship, and a muralism track targeting court-involved youth. We also deliver a multi-year in-school model that pairs teaching artists with core subject teachers, a mobile van (murals on the move) that brings art and creative practice to recreation centers, and paid summer apprenticeships for alumni.
$1,530,154 spent$1,665,988 earned by the program11% of program spendingTours program - mural arts offers public and private tours of the world's largest outdoor art gallery, where people explore the murals, artistic processes and community histories that inspire our work. Patrons weave through the diverse neighborhoods of philadelphia, getting great view of the city by foot, by vehicle, by train, by segway, or virtually. Patrons can take in the iconic imagery that makes philadelphia the mural capital of the world and learn about philadelphia's beautiful visual history from professional tour guides.
$222,570 spent$227,325 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,598,403.
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 $9.4M to $13M (+42%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% 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.
Chief executive
Jane Golden
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $5.3M.
11 of 138 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $2.3M from 11 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 138 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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% 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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 22% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 20% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% — 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
43% of PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES 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
54% of PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES 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. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$580k
- Department of Health and Human Services$500k
- Department of Justice$275k
- Department of State$100k
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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES 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 MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC?
- PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 138 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,947,596 to it, the largest being FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION ($4,650,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 138 organizations giving $32,947,596 in grants to PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC?
- FREEDOM TOGETHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES 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 138 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