Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA VIP INC
PHILADELPHIA VIP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,615,597 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($953,050). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Philadelphia Vip Inc does
Mission
Philadelphia vip leverages the powerful resources of the community to provide quality volunteer legal services and ensure access to justice for low-income philadelphians.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Line 4a, program service ------------------------ philadelphia vip has a 44-year history as the only legal aid organization in philadelphia dedicated to securing pro bono legal assistance for low- income individuals, families, small businesses, and nonprofits. Vip was created in 1981 as a joint venture between the philadelphia bar association, public interest legal community, and private bar to address an overflow of civil cases that could not be absorbed by legal services organizations, and implicated essential needs like housing, income, and family composition. To this day, vip fills an essential "agency of last resort" role for low-income philadelphians facing critical legal problems who are unable to receive legal assistance elsewhere. Vip's core activity is recruiting, training, and providing on-going support to its large, diverse community of volunteer attorneys who advise and represent vip's low-income clients pro bono (I.e., at no charge). Vip represents clients in four priority service areas: (1) preventing homelessness, (2) supporting family stability, (3) preserving income, and (4) promoting community economic development. The majority of vip's cases are referred by its…
$1,919,457 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,919,457.
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 $2.4M to $3.3M (+39%).
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 12% · 2018 12% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 33% · 2023 47% · 2024 52% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PHILADELPHIA VIP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $17k → $344k.
11 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $1.4M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Philadelphia Bar Association). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA VIP INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA VIP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 VIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 VIP INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 86% · 2019 75% · 2020 36% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 36% — 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
64% of PHILADELPHIA VIP INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
71% of PHILADELPHIA VIP 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. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 VIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PHILADELPHIA VIP 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
94%
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 VIP 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 VIP INC?
- PHILADELPHIA VIP INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,615,597 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($953,050). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA VIP INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,615,597 in grants to PHILADELPHIA VIP INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA VIP INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $953,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA VIP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 45 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