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WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,505 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$77k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$83k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Washington Square West Civic Association does

Mission

To foster the quality of life in the neighborhood

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Neighborhood improvement: provided seasonal, weekly sidewalk cleaning throughoutthe neighborhood; maintained community garden program and made improvement to garden (tended by 80 gardeners); and organized a neighborhood cleanup day.

    $32,502 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,502.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($87k) Expenses 100 ($44k) Net assets 100 ($85k)2018 Revenue 43 ($37k) Expenses 146 ($65k) Net assets 68 ($58k)2019 Revenue 52 ($45k) Expenses 93 ($41k) Net assets 73 ($62k)2020 Revenue 32 ($28k) Expenses 72 ($32k) Net assets 71 ($60k)2021 Revenue 38 ($33k) Expenses 71 ($31k) Net assets 75 ($64k)2022 Revenue 50 ($43k) Expenses 101 ($45k) Net assets 71 ($60k)2023 Revenue 61 ($53k) Expenses 146 ($65k) Net assets 57 ($49k)2024 Revenue 89 ($77k) Expenses 98 ($43k) Net assets 97 ($83k)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (98)Net assets (97)Peer revenue range

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 $49k to $90k (+85%).

$85k
$58k
$62k
$60k
$64k
$60k
$49k
$90k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

78% of WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,274 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
−$27k
’18
$3k
’19
−$4k
’20
$2k
’21
−$2k
’22
−$12k
’23
$34k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $1k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION’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

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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

65% 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 WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

65%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% — 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

65% of WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,397 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin44% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,397 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION?
WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,505 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ($7,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $11,505 in grants to WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION?
THE PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION 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 2017–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing