Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,656,757 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ($1,600,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10.0M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Philadelphia Youth Basketball Inc does
Mission
Philadelphia youth basketball (pyb) is a community-built youth empowerment organization that leverages the iconic game of basketball to help today's urban youth overcome the most urgent and systemic issues facing underserved communities.built of, by, for, and with the communities it serves, pyb's unique equity-building model combines engaging group activities and sport & society modules with real-world life lessons from health and wellness to personal growth and leadership. This holistic approach to youth development hinges on the accessible, culturally credible coach-mentors at pyb, many of whom come from the same neighborhoods and circumstances as the young people we serve. Entrepreneurial and evidenced-based, pyb helps thousands of young people find their voice, value and visibility during their critical formative years, to bring about meaningful community change and lasting economic mobility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pyb developed a signature academy program that is based on our holistic model that combines on-court skill development and gameplay with off-court enrichment, mentorship,and healthy foods. The academy program serves youth from 4-18 years old, with cohesive pathways from kindergarten to career. The academy program refers to a collection of customizable programs designed to meet young people where they arebased on their age, skill level, and, if desired, gender. Infused with 5 core competencies, ranging from social-emotional learning, financial literacy, career readiness, physical health and mental wellness, and academic enrichment, the goal of the model is to foster critical skills necessary to succeed and to thrive throughout youth and into adulthood.
$6,783,114 spentof which $3,983,359 as grants$112,121 earned by the program79% of program spendingPyb's middle school partnership program (mspp) is a comprehensive after-school program, which combines academic enrichment, basketball skill development, and positive coaching and mentorship to empower young people as students, athletes, and positive leaders in their community.
$853,860 spent$312,270 earned by the program10% of program spendingLace up & learn up summer camp series (lulu) is a full-day summer camp for participants in grades 5-8. Lulu offers community builders, drills & skills, academic learning, guest speakers, gameplay, and healthy meals.
$439,055 spent5% of program spendingWorkbased learning (wbl) opportunities are provided to high school students to intern with partner organizations for practical learning experiences, while receiving resources, training, and enrichment to develop as career-ready leaders.the I am because we are (iabwa) program is an anti-violence mentorship program that uses basketball to develop young people ages 13-18 into the next generation of leaders. Deeply rooted in the african philosophy of "ubuntu" in which our sense of self is shaped by our relationships with others, we combine off-court, social-emotional, identity development curriculum with on-court skill building and gameplay. Iabwa's coach-mentors use restorative strategies to build a thriving community and provide safe spaces for youthespecially those who have been impacted by gun violence and the justice system. Participants benefit from support in mitigating these traumatic environmental circumstances and welcome the program's empowering redirection in their lives.financial empowerment programs include financial literacy workshops and business plan development opportunities, including a "magic academy," which is a startup accelerator model for high school students…
$548,513 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,624,542.
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 $5.6M to $27M (+376%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Kenneth Holdsman
President & CEO
Board chair
Brooke Queenan
Chairperson (as of 07/2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $58k → $2.2M.
16 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 YOUTH BASKETBALL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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 YOUTH BASKETBALL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
39% 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 YOUTH BASKETBALL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 42% · 2019 27% · 2020 26% · 2021 14% · 2022 30% · 2023 16% — 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
38% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL 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
72% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL 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. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 YOUTH BASKETBALL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
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 YOUTH BASKETBALL 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
80% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Sixth Man Center Inc · exempt
- Pursuing Transformation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC?
- PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,656,757 to it, the largest being THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC ($1,600,000). 72 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $13,656,757 in grants to PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC, 72 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC?
- THE LENFEST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL 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 124 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