Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WELCOME AMERICA INC
WELCOME AMERICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,955,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.6M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $502k
What Welcome America Inc does
Mission
Welcome america, inc., a 501c3, non-profit organization in public-private partnership with the city of philadelphia. Welcome america, inc.'s mission is to promote american history, education and philadelphia. Welcome america, inc. Seeks to enhance the resident and visitor experience through citywide events that provide an economic boost to the local economy. Moving forward, welcome america, inc. May produce and assist in the growth of select city events year-round that can increase awareness of philadelphia as an event destination and execute the organizational mission.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The largest program of welcome america, inc. Is the wawa welcome america festival. The festival normally attracts hundreds of thousands to free events across the city and reaches millions through events that are broadcast and live streamed. In 2021, welcome america, inc. Expanded the festival to include juneteenth, resulting in a 16-day festival filled with diverse and inclusive programming. All events are free to the public. Serving as the city's official july 4th celebration and one of the largest in the country, the festival garners millions of impressions and engagements across all media platforms:press - wawa welcome america 2022 secured over 1,655 placements garnering over 6,151,627,038 impressions.social media - used all social platforms to inform and engage with followers. Social channels also served as customer service outlets for the festival. Wawa welcome america 2022 accumulated over 1,551,077 impressions with over 56,310 engagements.website - served as the main information hub of the festival and had over 505,193 page views and over 242,619 unique sessions from may 1 - july 5, 2022.email - engaged with fans of the festival, delivering an above industry average open…
$3,861,138 spent$75,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,861,138.
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.
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 $1.1M to $2.8M (+171%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 18% · 2019 18% · 2020 51% · 2021 7% · 2022 28% · 2023 32% · 2024 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WELCOME AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Michael Delbene
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $1.0M.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 WELCOME AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 funders by total. 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
WELCOME AMERICA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 98% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of WELCOME AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% 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
98% of WELCOME AMERICA 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. $200k 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
WELCOME AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WELCOME AMERICA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143k on record.
- Department of Defense$143k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WELCOME AMERICA 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 WELCOME AMERICA 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 WELCOME AMERICA INC?
- WELCOME AMERICA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,955,000 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,600,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WELCOME AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,955,000 in grants to WELCOME AMERICA INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WELCOME AMERICA INC?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WELCOME AMERICA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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