Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,168 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($249,040). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia does
Mission
Historic Preservation - To actively promote the appreciation, protection, and appropriate use and development of the Philadelphia regions historic buildings communities and landscapes. (See complete Mission statement in Schedule O)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
. CHANGES TO PROGRAM SERVICES The Organization is always looking for ways to improve its programs. Thus certain aspects of its programs may change from time to time, and different projects may come and go.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Historic Preservation Promotion: Various initiatives and projects actively promote the appreciation, protection and appropriate use and development of historic buildings, communities and landscapes, through advocacy, education, and surveying of historic resources in the City. This program also includes Architectural Walking Tours, Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance the Preservation Achievement Awards program, Extant magazine, newsletter, and certain portions of the Alliance website, which showcases current issues and best practices.
$427,023 spent$70,037 earned by the program73% of program spendingPreservation Easement Program: The Alliance accepts preservation easements on historic properties and sites to ensure protection of those properties and sites in perpetuity. The easement program has been employed throughout the Philadelphia region since 1979. The organization currently holds 243 easements in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland; most are in the Philadelphia area.
$109,084 spent19% of program spendingNeighborhood Walking Tours: The Preservation Alliances guided walking tours interpret the past, present and future of the Philadelphia region as expressed through architecture design and social history. The tour program is comprised of regularly scheduled architectural walking tours, private tours, and one- time special events showcasing locations that normally are not accessible. The Architectural Walking tour program offers 60 different tours, with over 100 tours offered per season by approximately 30 volunteer guides. Approximately 1000 people a year take the tours.
$51,366 spent$16,210 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $587,473.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.9M (+83%).
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.
89% of PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Paul Steinke
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Powers
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $75k → $116k.
3 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
50% 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 PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 65% · 2019 40% · 2020 22% · 2021 61% · 2022 28% · 2023 43% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA draws 51% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k 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
PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER 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
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,121,168 to it, the largest being The Pew Charitable Trusts ($249,040). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $1,121,168 in grants to PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA?
- The Pew Charitable Trusts is the largest funder on record, with $249,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 37 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