Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,162,893 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,979,170). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What William Way Lgbt Community Center does
Mission
Misson: we seek to engage and support the diverse lgbtqia+ communities in the greater philadelphia area through arts and culture, empowerment, and community connections. Vision: we want all lgbtqia+ people to feel safe, connected, and empowered. We strive to be a community center whose staff, management, and board reflect the vibrant and richly diverse communities we serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To encourage, support, and advocate for the well-being and acceptance of sexual and gender minorities through service, recreational, educational, and cultural programming.
$1,879,046 spent$56,690 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,879,046.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.5M to $5.7M (+59%).
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 2% · 2019 5% · 2020 2% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 43% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $153k → $1.2M.
18 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $104k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lgbt Elder Initiative). These are real filings, and they are not money WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
51% 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 WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 38% · 2019 25% · 2020 35% · 2021 23% · 2022 61% · 2023 19% — diversifying over time.
“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
38% of WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
90% of WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY 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. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY 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.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Lgbt Elder Initiative · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY 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 WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER?
- WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,162,893 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,979,170). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $6,162,893 in grants to WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,979,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAM WAY LGBT COMMUNITY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 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