Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC
RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,695,639 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC ($4,604,340). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $759k
What Resolve Philadelphia Inc does
Mission
In a time of widespread mistrust, political division, and industry upheaval, journalists must have a new resolve: they must consider not just what they report, but how they find, frame, and tell stories about communities who are often inaccurately depicted in the media. Journalists often do not consider the perspectives of community members in how coverage is conceived, often leading to concepts and language that promote stereotypes, erase nuance, or highlight implicit bias. Resolve philly was formed to address how the industry can more effectively cover these communities particularly those experiencing racial injustice and economic hardship by including their perspectives and voices directly in reporting. Elevating those voices enables communities to tell their own stories and helps to change the perceptions that perpetuate discrimination.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Resolve philly's purpose is to develop and advance journalism rooted in equity, collaboration, and the elevation of community voices and solutions, which the corporation achieves by undertaking the following activities: building, managing, and executing short-term and long-term collaborative reporting projects, developing narrative resources and digital tools for newsrooms, publishing newsletters, community engagement events, and research and evaluation of newsroom and community impact.
$1,168,081 spent$112,261 earned by the program59% of program spendingShake the table - empowers communities to hold their elected city officials accountable by demystifying city government processes and operating departments. With civic engagement and government accountability at the core of its approach, resolve launched stt in april 2022 as a six-year reporting and community engagement project that provides clear mechanisms and new channels for residents to actively engage with city government. Through this work, resolve equips philadelphians with the skills needed to understand and interrogate the larger systems that typically thwart resident-driven and long-term approaches to solving a community's most urgent challenges. A core part of stt is documenters, through which resolve recruits, trains, and pays philadelphia-area residents to attend municipal government meetings or hearings and take notes, building a new public record of our city's government.
$377,901 spent19% of program spendingEqually informed - works to bridge the information divide, reducing barriers for vulnerable residents who need trustworthy information to live and thrive in philly. Equally informed also invest deeply in underestimated voices and community storytellers. Equally informed provides a community-driven print newsletter and the equal info line, a free bi-lingual (english and spanish) question and answer texting service that also provides vetted local news and resources to subscribers.
$419,910 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,965,892.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $204k to $2.0M (+881%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $550k → $2.9M.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 50% · 2021 56% · 2022 56% · 2023 59% — 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
67% of RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
86% of RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $683k 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
RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC: 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 RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC?
- RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,695,639 to it, the largest being INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC ($4,604,340). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $10,695,639 in grants to RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RESOLVE PHILADELPHIA INC?
- INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA OF PHILADELPHIA INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,604,340 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RESOLVE 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.
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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 26 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