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Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia

Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,336,909 to it, the largest being POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,309,716). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.7M
Revenue FY2024
81
Funders on record
$6.3M
Grants received
$9.9M
Net assets
51/81 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%

Against its field

Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.4M) Net assets 100 ($9.0M)2018 Revenue 119 ($3.8M) Expenses 105 ($3.6M) Net assets 102 ($9.2M)2019 Revenue 109 ($3.5M) Expenses 99 ($3.4M) Net assets 102 ($9.2M)2020 Revenue 80 ($2.6M) Expenses 86 ($2.9M) Net assets 98 ($8.9M)2021 Revenue 92 ($2.9M) Expenses 74 ($2.5M) Net assets 112 ($10M)2022 Revenue 82 ($2.6M) Expenses 82 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($9.0M)2023 Revenue 106 ($3.4M) Expenses 97 ($3.3M) Net assets 105 ($9.4M)2024 Revenue 116 ($3.7M) Expenses 116 ($3.9M) Net assets 109 ($9.9M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (116)Net assets (109)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
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2020
2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 6% · 2019 10% · 2020 15% · 2021 26% · 2022 19% · 2023 29% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$193k
17
$268k
18
$132k
19
$367k
20
$414k
21
$175k
22
$104k
23
$227k
24
1.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 38 funders, grant income fell $931k → $701k.

8 of 81 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)17% 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: $355k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia raised.

From the IRS filings of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 81 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

Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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

40% 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 Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia.

21%
largest funder
52%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 54% · 2019 32% · 2020 43% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 25%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

40% of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

64% of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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NY
MA
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NJ
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CA
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VA
DE
SC
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. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 81 funders put you typical 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 Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia

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

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 25%Fundraising 15%

Governance

61
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Police Athletic League of Philadelphia S · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia: 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 Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia?
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,336,909 to it, the largest being POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,309,716). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia have?
IRS filings report 81 organizations giving $6,336,909 in grants to Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia?
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA is the largest funder on record, with $1,309,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 81funders 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