Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB
PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,018 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($90,909). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $161k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $177k
- Net assets
- $704k
What Philadelphia Sketch Club does
Mission
The Philadelphia Sketch Club (PSC) has a mission to provide a community for visual arts, appreciation of the visual arts and visual arts education. The PSC serves as a meeting place and a forum for ideas. It is a vital bridge between creators and supporters of the visual arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Art Workshops - We successfully reinstated and increased drawing, painting, and print making workshops that were in place prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We offer open workshops six days per week, with costumed and nude models. The PSC established a new partnership with Classical Arts Atelier to develop classical drawing classes for teens and young adults on a drop-in basis. The class was offered on a three-month trial basis.
$60,822 spent$57,089 earned by the program50% of program spendingExhibitions - The PSC held 11 exhibitions in our Main Gallery, including the PSC Workshop Exhibition, PHOTOgraphy Exhibition, the 2025 Members Art Exhibition, 163rd Anniversary Gala Silent Auction, Phillustration, Works Under $250, Works on Paper, School District of Philadelphia High School Student Show, Art of the Flower Exhibition, Members Exhibition, and the Under/ Grad Students Exhibition. In addition, there were six smaller exhibitions in the Stewart Room Gallery including 40 Years of Photographic Image Making, by Garry Grisson, Fundraising Gala Silent Auction Exhibition, Historic Items from Archives and on Loan to compliment Silent Auction Items and two additional artists exhibitions.
$53,792 spent$20,882 earned by the program44% of program spendingOn-Line Gallery - In order to keep members involved in exhibition opportunities, we utilized an On-Line Gallery on our website for our members to show their works. We also have an On-Line Critique that allows artists to see comments made about their artworks. Artists were also encouraged to note their exhibitions and accomplishments on the Club website and in our monthly newsletter.
$124 spent0% of program spendingArchives & Library - Our archives and library contain unique information about the PSC and local artists. We answer several inquiries monthly from researchers and have been cited in many published works. Generally, these requests come from art gallery or museum personnel who are seeking information on artists they present in their exhibitions, graduate-level students who are working on academic papers and family members whose relatives were artists.
$0 spent0% of program spendingArt Collection - We have works from our permanent collection on display to include 44 portraits of members painted by Thomas Anshutz in the 1890s. Several items from our permanent collection are also shown on our website.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther efforts include groups of members having plein aire painting sessions and our status as a historic site. We also have continued our annual Anniversary Gala which is a fund-raising, catered event that raises funds from ticket sales and the auctioning of donated art works.
$6,650 spent5% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $121,388.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $721k to $683k (−5%).
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 9% · 2021 20% · 2022 23% · 2023 17% · 2024 21% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $28k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 SKETCH CLUB’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 SKETCH CLUB leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 SKETCH CLUB.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 57% · 2020 60% · 2021 83% · 2022 64% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB'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 $86k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SKETCH CLUB is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 SKETCH CLUB: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB?
- PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,018 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($90,909). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $177,018 in grants to PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,909 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA SKETCH CLUB 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.
Play a game about who funds Philadelphia Sketch Club →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 5 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