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PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC

PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,276 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($379,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$609k
Revenue FY2023
21
Funders on record
$964k
Grants received
$171k
Net assets
8/21 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC has grown faster than half of the 4,134 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−55% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,134 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($236k) Expenses 100 ($235k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 384 ($906k) Expenses 119 ($280k) Net assets 1367 ($676k)2019 Revenue 104 ($245k) Expenses 174 ($408k) Net assets 1036 ($512k)2020 Revenue 74 ($175k) Expenses 156 ($367k) Net assets 648 ($321k)2021 Revenue 166 ($391k) Expenses 221 ($520k) Net assets 389 ($192k)2022 Revenue 355 ($837k) Expenses 223 ($525k) Net assets 1020 ($505k)2023 Revenue 258 ($609k) Expenses 401 ($943k) Net assets 345 ($171k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (258)Expenses (401)Net assets (345)Peer revenue range

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 26% · 2021 7% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,616 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$712
17
$626k
18
$164k
19
$192k
20
$128k
21
$312k
22
$334k
23
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $12k → $61k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)29% 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 PARKS ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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 PARKS ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% 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

41% 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 PARKS ALLIANCE INC.

39%
largest funder
59%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 26% · 2019 86% · 2020 89% · 2021 60% · 2022 54% · 2023 41%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

31% of PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

94% of PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
MA
PA
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $278k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Pennsylvania

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 12%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

67%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE 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 PARKS ALLIANCE INC?
PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $964,276 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($379,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $964,276 in grants to PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE INC?
THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $379,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA PARKS ALLIANCE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing