Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC
PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,761,102 to it, the largest being AIDS UNITED ($532,921). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Prevention Point Philadelphia Inc does
Mission
The mission of prevention point philadelphia is to promote health, empowerment and safety for communities affected by drug use and poverty. We are a multi-service public health organization dedicated to reducing the harm associated with drug use through education, outreach, advocacy, and direct services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical and prevention services: prevention point philadelphia continued its ending the hiv epidemic clinic (sana) integrating hiv and hcv care with wrap-around and harm reduction services. Prevention point has over thirty years' experience in operating syringe service programs, services 7,913 unique and unduplicated individuals during fy25 in over 32,000 interactions. Prevention point has co-located hiv primary care and wrap- around case management for hiv positive individuals for nearly ten years before running its own clinic for the last five years, with 876 visits from patients living with hiv for on-going medical care. Prevention point has also administered medical case management for several years, has administered a prep and hepatitis c clinic for the last five years, and has nineteen years' experience in operating hiv testing and linkage to care services, conducting 1,559 tests in fy25.
$11,734,658 spent$9,643,961 earned by the program62% of program spendingSocial services: social services include case management, police assisted diversion program (pad), drop-in homeless services, community relations, volunteers, and other services. Prevention point has nearly twenty-seven years' experience in operating a drop-in center that had 99,455 unduplicated clients visits in fy25, providing approximately 15,798 social referrals and operated public restrooms (for hepatitis a prevention) with 3,684 visits. Prevention point has twenty-one years' experience in operating an overdose prevention program, distributing 113,571 doses of narcan across philadelphia. Wound care clinics have been in operation for nineteen years, conducting 673 visits in fy25. For the past eighteen years, prevention point has been offering substance abuse treatment with a monthly census of 250 patients. Prevention point's hiv primary care services, which has been operating for eleven years.
$2,909,838 spent15% of program spendingHousing: prevention point's homeless shelter is a low threshold shelter that admits those who are still actively using substances. Prevention point has ten years' experience operating a low-barrier respite, housing hundreds of individuals over the decade and transitioning 377 individuals to permanent housing in fy25. Prevention point has eight years' experience with an outreach team that conducted 4,228 outreach contacts and 580 placements last year. Prevention point has eight years' experience operating pad (police assisted diversion) and offering three years of re- entry services, offering services to an average of 800 individuals.
$4,349,650 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,994,146.
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.
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 $4.9M to $8.1M (+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: 2017 88% · 2018 75% · 2019 88% · 2020 78% · 2021 75% · 2022 70% · 2023 64% · 2024 60% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Ann Ricksecker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $45k → $971k.
13 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 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
PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
60% 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 PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 63% · 2019 28% · 2020 27% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 30% — 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
29% of PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $929k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Organizations like PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC?
- PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,761,102 to it, the largest being AIDS UNITED ($532,921). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $4,761,102 in grants to PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC?
- AIDS UNITED is the largest funder on record, with $532,921 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA 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 75 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