Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 81 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,510,514 to it, the largest being POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,309,716). 52 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 81
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia does
Mission
Pal achieves its mission of "cops helping kids," by providing free athletic, educational and cultural after-school and summer programming in more than 18 youth development centers across the city of philadelphia-each supervised by full-time philadelphia police officers. Pal seeks to reduce crime around our centers, improve character and educational outcomes among philadelphia's most at-risk youth.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Athletic programs like basketball, baseball, flag football, soccer, junior golf, table tennis, wrestling, cheerleading etc. Programs are run by police officers in 15 pal centers in different philadelphia locations. Cost includes salaries of police officers, equipment and cost of programs (space rental, utilities for space, instuctors, referee fees, etc).
$2,176,803 spent85% of program spendingEducational programs like homework club, chess program, positive images mentoring program for girls, boys to men mentoring program for boys, reading program, positive action program, etc. We introduce intercity youth with computer awarness program which provides children with knowledge of computer programs, navigating, and research. Children canlearn how to create a website. We organize new computers and other initiatives every year where children can learn how to use websites and online platforms.
$182,505 spent7% of program spendingCultural programs like organizing art camps, visits to the philadelphia zoo, camden aquarium, franklin institute, and state parks in the summer. Children attend movie screenings, dance programs, etc.
$190,144 spent7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,549,452.
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 $9.6M to $11M (+14%).
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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 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 20% 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
42% 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.
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; 64% 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
62% of Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia's grant income 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 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.
Against its field
Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia
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
60% 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 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 $6,510,514 to it, the largest being POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA ($1,309,716). 52 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 $6,510,514 in grants to Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia, 52 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 81 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