GrantmakersPennsylvania

Bread and Roses Community Fund

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-2047297. Reported 363 grants totalling $4,779,938 to 212 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

212organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$4,779,938granted, 2020-2023
39%of grantees funded again the next year
5%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 212 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 39% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
45 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
289 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
18 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Movement Alliance ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$223,1001542023
Culturetrust Greater PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$125,000532022
Human Rights CoalitionPhiladelphia, PA$118,600842023
Alliance for Global JusticeTucson, AZ$115,000642023
Philadelphia City Fund IncPhiladelphia, PA$100,000112022
Womens Community Revitalization ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$95,000742023
Federation of Neighborhood Centers IncPhiladelphia, PA$90,000532023
Urban Affairs CoalitionPhiladelphia, PA$90,000532022
Amistad Law ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$84,300642023
Abolitionist Law CenterPittsburgh, PA$70,000642023
Action Center IncPhiladelphia, PA$70,000432022
Impact Community Development CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$70,000712021
Why Not Prosper IncPhiladelphia, PA$65,300632022
Prevention Point Philadelphia IncorporatedPhiladelphia, PA$62,900542023
National Domestic Workers Alliance IncNew York, NY$60,000432023
Native American House Alliance IncPhiladelphia, PA$60,000542023
Free Migration ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$55,000542023
Neighborhood Land Power ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$55,000222021
One Art Community CenterPhiladelphia, PA$55,000332023
Asian Americans UnitedPhiladelphia, PA$50,000442023
JuntosPhiladelphia, PA$50,000442023
Dave Purchase ProjectTacoma, WA$45,000332022
We Reign IncPhiladelphia, PA$45,000322021
Philadelphia Leadership FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$43,000432023
Arab-American Development CorpPhiladelphia, PA$41,000332023
CASA IncHyattsville, MD$40,000112023
Girls Justice LeaguePhiladelphia, PA$40,000442023
National Institute for Healthy Human Spaces IncPhiladelphia, PA$40,000222022
Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and HealthPhiladelphia, PA$40,000442023
Teamster Rank and File Education and Legal Defense FoundationDetroit, MI$40,000442023
Beyond the Bars IncPhiladelphia, PA$35,000332023
Big Picture AlliancePhiladelphia, PA$35,000222022
Frontline Dads IncPhiladelphia, PA$35,000222022
Philly Trans MarchPhiladelphia, PA$35,000222023
Womens Institute for Family HealthPhiladelphia, PA$35,000222023
Ardellas House IncPhiladelphia, PA$30,000322021
Coalition of Africian Communities - PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$30,000222021
Comite De Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas IncGlassboro, NJ$30,000332022
Indigenous Peoples Day Philly IncPhiladelphia, PA$30,000212022
Sisters Returning HomePhiladelphia, PA$30,000322021
Tides FoundationSan Francisco, CA$30,000112020
Urban CreatorsPhiladelphia, PA$30,000222023
Womxn Beyond Borders IncPhiladelphia, PA$30,000332022
U C Green IncPhiladelphia, PA$28,500112020
Why Not ProsperPhiladelphia, PA$27,000112023
Reality Speaking IncNorristown, PA$26,500332022
Hearts on a WirePhiladelphia, PA$25,000112023
Mighty WritersPhiladelphia, PA$25,000212021
Mount Vernon Manor IncPhiladelphia, PA$25,000222021
Natures Garden for Victory and Peace IncTuskegee, AL$25,000112020
Purple House Project Pa IncCollingdale, PA$25,000222023
Senior to Senior Community OutreachPhiladelphia, PA$25,000222021
We Love PhillyPhiladelphia, PA$25,000212021
Yoga 4 the WorldPhiladelphia, PA$25,000212021
Coalition for Black Trans Economic LiberationPhiladelphia, PA$22,500112021
Fractured Atlas IncNew York, NY$21,087222023
Aging People in Prison Human Rights CampaignWashington, DC$21,000222023
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium IncChicago, IL$21,000222023
Agape African Senior CenterPhiladelphia, PA$20,000222021
Blackstar Projects IncPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Blackwell Culture Alliance IncPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Centennial Parkside CdcPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Children First PaPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Do Moore GoodPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Family Survival IncPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Freer Records IncNew York, NY$20,000112022
Hack FoundationW Hollywood, CA$20,000112023
Marijuana JusticeRichmond, VA$20,000112023
Ndn Collective IncRapid City, SD$20,000112020
New Sanctuary Movement of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$20,000222022
Next Level Revival ChurchPhiladelphia, PA$20,000222023
Opencollective FoundationCovina, CA$20,000222022
Painted Bride Art Center IncPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Restaurant Opportunities Center United - PennsylvaNew York, NY$20,000222023
Striving Together Empowering People Community Development CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
The Black Visioning GroupPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112021
The Village Arts and HumanitiesPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112022
The Haven Healing HutPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
United States Catholic ConferenceWashington, DC$20,000212021
UrbedPhiladelphia, PA$20,000222023
Youth Empowerment for Advancement HangoutPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112023
Philadelphia Lawyers for Social EquityPhiladelphia, PA$19,500332023
Collective ClimbPhiladelphia, PA$16,000222022
Power InterfaithHarrisburg, PA$16,000222021
African Cultural Alliance of North America IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Al-Bustan Seeds of CulturePhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Artwell Collaborative IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Brothers of Strawberry MansionPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Breakthrough Healing GroupPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112023
Cair-PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$15,000222023
Cambodian Association of Greater PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Camp EndeavorPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Center in the Park IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Church of AhimsaPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
College Application Education Project IncLynn, MA$15,000112021
Cradles to Crayons IncNewton, MA$15,000112021
Esteem Girls IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
First Church Worship CenterPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Georgia E Gregory Interdenominational School of MscPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Grands As ParentsPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Hawaii Peace and JusticeHonolulu, HI$15,000112023
Hunting Park Neighborhood Advisory CommitteePhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Innovative Treatment Alternatives IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Islamic Cultural Preservation & Information CouncilPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Kiths Integrated and Targeted Human ServicesPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Labor Education & Research ProjectDetroit, MI$15,000112021
Mantua Civic AssociationPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Men Who Care of Germantown IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Neighborhood Bike WorksPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
People Advancing Reintegration IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp Chinatown Community ParkPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Philadelphia Community Empowerment Through SoccerPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Philadelphia Folklore ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Power of Paint Art Academy & ManagementPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Reawakening AgencyPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
The Equity ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
The Monkey & the ElephantPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Tree House BooksPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Unemployment Information CenterPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Unique Dreams IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
We Care Learning and Development CenterPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Right to the City Alliance IncBrooklyn, NY$14,151112020
Transgender Resource Center of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$13,000112020
A Little Taste of Everything IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Abington Friends SchoolJenkintown, PA$10,000112023
Abortion Liberation Fund of PaPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
About Face Veterans Against the WarArvada, CO$10,000112023
Block Gives Back CorpPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Byfaithenternal Health CarePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Center for Third World OrganizingOakland, CA$10,000112023
Centro Nueva Creacion-New CreationPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Circle of HopePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Cooper Grant Neighborhood AssociationCamden, NJ$10,000112020
Disability Pride Philadelphia IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Driving Pa ForwardPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Drop of Love InternacionalPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112022
Ed Snider Youth Hockey FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Empowerment Center USA IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
FabyouthphiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Germantown Housing JusticePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Girls Rock PhillyPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Green Building UnitedPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical CenterLittle Rock, AR$10,000112023
H a C EPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Historic Fair Hill IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Intransitive Tm IncMabelvale, AR$10,000112023
Living Arts Dance FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Make the Road New YorkBrooklyn, NY$10,000112020
Mazzoni CenterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Mother of Mercy House IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Mothering JusticeDetroit, MI$10,000112020
National Legal Advocacy NetworkChicago, IL$10,000112023
New Kensington Community Development CorpPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Northeast Philadelphia Against RacismPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
One Fair Wage IncCambridge, MA$10,000112020
Papermill Food Hub IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Philadelphia Area Jobs With JusticePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Philadelphia Bail FundPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112022
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of FriendsPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112023
Photography Without BordersPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Popular Alliance Fr Undcmntd Wrkrs' RghtsPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Prisoners' Lives MatterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Providence CenterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Racial Justice Organizing CommitteePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Right to RedemptionPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Rock Ministries of Philadelphia IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
S M a R TMoncks Corner, SC$10,000112021
Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund IncAtlanta, GA$10,000112023
Somerset Neighbors for Better LivingPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Southerners on New GroundAtlanta, GA$10,000112020
St Paul AME ElmwoodPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Stay TruePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Taller Puertorriqueno IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
The Center for Black EquityWashington, DC$10,000112020
The Peace and Justice Studies AssociationWashington, DC$10,000112022
The Salvation ArmyWest Nyack, NY$10,000112021
The Simple WayPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Together We Can IncClovis, CA$10,000112022
Unincarcerated Minds IncorporatedPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Urban Extreme Youth DevelopmentPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Visitation Community Outreach FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
William Way Lgbt Community CenterPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Women Who Never Give Up IncSicklerville, NJ$10,000112020
Woori CenterLansdale, PA$10,000112022
Workers Revolutionary Collective IncPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
XientePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112020
Youth United for ChangePhiladelphia, PA$10,000112021
Community Action Relief ProjectPhiladelphia, PA$8,500112020
Holding Institute IncLaredo, TX$8,000112021
Metropolitan Christian Council of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$8,000112020
MakomDurham, NC$8,000112023
Namati IncWashington, DC$8,000112021
Decarcerate PaPhiladelphia, PA$7,500112020
Genderfunk PhillyPhiladelphia, PA$7,500112023
Grassroots International IncBoston, MA$7,000112023
Resource GenerationBrooklyn, NY$7,000112023
Indigenous EducationPhiladelphia, PA$6,000112023
Outside the BarsPhiladelphia, PA$6,000112020
Fields Retreat and Learning Center IncAnnandale, MN$5,000112020
Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives TogetherPhiladelphia, PA$5,000112020
Interact IncPhiladelphia, PA$5,000112020
James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community LeadershipDetroit, MI$5,000112020
Michigan Disability Rights CoalitionEast Lansing, MI$5,000112020
Progress Michigan EducationLansing, MI$5,000112020
United Community Housing CoalitionDetroit, MI$5,000112020
We the People of DetroitDetroit, MI$5,000112020
La Raza for LiberationPhiladelphia, PA$1,000112020
Migrant Justice IncBurlington, VT$1,000112020
Ahari a Home Is a RightPhiladelphia, PA$500112020
Canal AllianceSan Rafael, CA$500112020
Equal Justice InitiativeMontgomery, AL$500112020
Siloam WellnessPhiladelphia, PA$500112020

55 of 212 (26%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 164 of 212 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
28 orgs
Community Improvement
22 orgs
Education
17 orgs
Arts & Culture
15 orgs
Crime & Legal
13 orgs
Youth Development
12 orgs
Civil Rights
10 orgs
Religion
8 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202092$1,266,238$10,000
2021144$1,705,500$10,000
202255$711,800$10,000
202372$1,096,400$11,950

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

81% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Pennsylvania
$3.9M
New York
$162K
Arizona
$115K
California
$90K
Michigan
$90K
District of Columbia
$69K
New Jersey
$50K
Massachusetts
$47K

Down to the city

Philadelphia, PA
$3.7M
New York, NY
$121K
Tucson, AZ
$115K
Detroit, MI
$80K
Pittsburgh, PA
$70K
Washington, DC
$69K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Philadelphia Foundation79 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund68 shared recipientsThe William Penn Foundation66 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program56 shared recipientsThe Patricia Kind Family Foundation53 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc53 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Bread and Roses Community Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 100 S Broad Street Suite 1600, Philadelphia, PA, 19110.

EIN 23-2047297 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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