Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD
THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,500 to it, the largest being THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,185 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,185 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundationshared funders
- Children Can Shape the Future Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
97% of THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD’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
THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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
98% of THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchPA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Children Can Shape the Future Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Poor Richard's Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jevs Human Servicesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Adam and Maria Sarah Seybert Institution for Poor Boys and Girlsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stoneleigh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Allen Hilles Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ludwick Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Foundation of Philadelphiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD?
- THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,500 to it, the largest being THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION ($105,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $177,500 in grants to THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD?
- THE KAREN AND HERBERT LOTMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PHILLY SERVICE AWARD 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing