Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER
SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,035 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($40,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $114k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $79k
What Soapbox Independent Publishing Center does
Mission
Community arts archive, studio access and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Art workshops: The Soapbox provides workshops in printing, bookbinding, comics arts, and related techniques at subsidized rates to teach community members the skills they need to tell their own stories and distribute their messages, and our workshops ensure that our equipment can be used by those without any specialized background. The Soapbox had approximately 370 workshop participants during the year.
$27,896 spent63% of program spendingStudio and Equipment Access: Our studio includes historic printing, book making, and papermaking equipment that is not available for public use elsewhere in Philadelphia. Individuals can join the studio as members to work on independent creative projects. The Soapbox has approximately 75 members and had approximately 500 open hour visitors.
$7,724 spent18% of program spendingZine and Artist Book Library: Our reading room of over 4000 handmade publications archives handmade or independently produced publications containing stories and perspectives that are not typically represented in mainstream publishing. Zinefest had approximately 141 vendors and 1,200 attendees.
$8,379 spent19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,999.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $64k to $78k (+21%).
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.
34% of SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $364 → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER’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
SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
99% of SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER
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.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER: 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 SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER?
- SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,035 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($40,105). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $41,035 in grants to SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER?
- THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOAPBOX INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CENTER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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