Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE
PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085,683 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($882,204). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $894k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $672k
What Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative does
Mission
The mission of Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The school of philadelphia coach training program was discontinued.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Access to quality sports:the citywide youth sports initiative is an effort with philadelphia parks and recreation to identify and implement strategies that fill gaps in service in the youth sports system. Together, we've partnered to utilize americorps positions to place paid coaches at underutilized recreation centers, provided equipment to existing sports programs, run introductory programs for girls by aligning providers in select locations, trained coaches in trauma-informed coaching strategies, and are 75% complete on a full landscape assessment of recreational play spaces and facilities, and the programs that use them.
$369,272 spentof which $218,039 as grants57% of program spendingComprehensive member engagement and capacity building services:pysc provides capacity building services to its member organizations, which number nearly 170. The services include program alignment, nonprofit training, coach education, outcome measurement tools and training, advocacy for the community, and communication strategies that highlight and elevate the work of youth sports providers across philadelphia. Additionally, pysc issues small dollar grants to organizations under its philly youth sports fund.
$163,846 spent25% of program spendingAdvocacy, research, and communications programs:pysc works to support the youth sports ecosystem through outcome measurement and research, which supports advocacy efforts. Pysc's advocacy results in increased investment in play spaces, programs, and the people who deliver these programs. Pysc takes the results of our research and outcome measurement and communicates broadly, supporting the ecosystem at large.
$120,184 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $653,302.
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 2020 to 2021, from $588k to $976k (+66%).
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: 2019 5% · 2020 53% · 2021 50% · 2022 48% · 2023 58% · 2024 77% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% 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
Bethanne H Devine
Executive director
Board chair
William Whetzel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $170k → $149k.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 SPORTS COLLABORATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 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 SPORTS COLLABORATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 SPORTS COLLABORATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 92% · 2019 90% · 2020 77% · 2021 53% · 2022 37% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
30% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
50% of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 SPORTS COLLABORATIVE is better cushioned than half of the 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,505 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $799k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$799k
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 SPORTS COLLABORATIVE
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
90%
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 YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE: 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 YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE?
- PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,085,683 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($882,204). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,085,683 in grants to PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $882,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA YOUTH SPORTS COLLABORATIVE 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 22 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