Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA
SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $685k
What Swiss Benevolent Society of Phila does
Mission
support needy Swiss families and individuals, provide scholarship to students of Swiss descendants, support other non-profit organizations as finances allow
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We established a scholarship program (Dolf Herger Scholarship) in April 2025. The program is a restricted account. Potential awardees are selected from recipients of a Merit Scholarship (SBS-NY), should be residing in the Delaware Valley Region and should have interaction with any of the 3 Swiss Societies (Swiss Benevolent Society / SBS, New Helvetic Society / NHS and the Maurice Rohrbach Fund / MRF).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
assistance to needy Swiss family for rent of appartment and general living expenses (food)
$16,912 spent61% of program spendingdonation to Merit Scholarship Fund administered by the Swiss Benevolent Society of New York, NY
$8,000 spent29% of program spendingdonations to: Historical Society of PA ($100), Swiss Center of North America ($1,000), New Helvetic Society ($822)
$1,922 spentof which $1,922 as grants7% of program spendingthe Dolf Herger Scholarship was established on April 2, 2025 and the first award in the amount of $1,000 was given to a student residing in our coverage area (Greater Delaware Valley)
$1,000 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $27,834.
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 2024 to 2025, from $544k to $685k (+26%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 13% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA’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
SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA.
“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
71% of SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA: 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 SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA?
- SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,000 in grants to SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SWISS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF PHILA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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