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Philadelphia Industrial Development

Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-6050858. Reported 82 grants totalling $7,715,862 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

58organizations funded
$18,125median reported grant
$7,715,862granted, 2021-2024
29%of grantees funded again the next year
54%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. For Philadelphia Industrial Development, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S41) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 54% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 29% 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 $18,125. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $59,775; the smallest was $5,046 and the largest $1,552,611. 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.
$5,000 - $10,000
20 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
31 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
8 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
6 grants

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
Submittable Holdings IncMissoula, MT$4,162,454442024
City of Phila (aviation)Philadelphia, PA$691,485112023
Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Developmentphiladelphia Naval YardPhiladelphia, PA$388,915222024
The Merchants Fund of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$300,000112021
Montgomery County Commerce DeptNorristown, PA$164,244222024
Chester County Economic Development CouncilExton, PA$163,734222023
Philadelphia Industrial Development CorpPhiladelphia, PA$159,312212024
Samuel Staten SR Pre-Apprenticeship ProgramPhiladelphia, PA$150,000112021
Greater Berks Development FundReading, PA$144,944332024
Delaware County Oversignt BoardMedia, PA$127,105222024
Bucks County Econ Dev CorpDoyleston, PA$105,683222023
Dvrpc Southeastern Pennsylvania CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$103,000112023
Redevelopment AuthorityNorristown, PA$99,059112023
German American Marketing IncPhiladelphia, PA$75,838442024
Alvin Pettit Studio LLCJersey City, NJ$75,000112024
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$75,000112022
Ecomap Technologies IncBaltimore, MD$50,000112024
Knowledge Factory IncPhiladelphia, PA$40,000222024
The City of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$35,000112022
Woffard Sculpture StudioCashiers, NC$33,000112022
Fairmount VenturesincPhiladelphia, PA$30,456322022
Culturetrust Greater PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, PA$30,235332024
Replica CreativePhiladelphia, PA$27,092222023
Steel City Displays LLCPhoenixville, PA$25,100112023
Jeannet K MulbahPhiladelphia, PA$25,000112023
Coco's Chicken and WafflesPhiladelphia, PA$24,964112022
Kck Academy LLCPhiladelphia, PA$24,800112023
Africa ReconnectPhiladelphia, PA$24,549222022
Yikes IncPhiladelphia, PA$21,592222024
Lifeline Music Coalition IncPhiladelphia, PA$20,750222023
Live Girls Band LLCPhiladelphia, PA$20,000112024
Dwayne Wharton & PennsylvaniartnePhiladelphia, PA$19,000112021
Green District MediaPhiladelphia, PA$17,500112023
Lancaster Avenue 21ST Century Business AssociationPhiladelphia, PA$17,000112024
Heritage Conservation CenterPhiladelphia, PA$16,610112023
Parkway Council FoundationPhiladelphia, PA$16,000222024
Arts and Education Foundation IncPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112023
Berkshire Coffee LLCPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112021
Fcr Cleaning Services LPhiladelphia, PA$15,000112023
American Wood DesignChester, PA$13,250112022
Mis Viejos RestaurantPhiladelphia, PA$12,200112021
Pidc-Community CapitalPhiladelphia, PA$12,056112023
African American Museum inPhiladelphia, PA$10,452112022
South Philly Italian KiPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112023
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$10,000112022
Greater Philadelphia Cultural AlliancePhiladelphia, PA$9,500112024
Vendors Association of Fdr ParkPhiladelphia, PA$9,450112022
1838 Black Metropolis IncorporatedPennsauken, NJ$9,000112024
Ball-Nogues Design StudioLos Angeles, CA$8,513112022
Eleone Dance UnlimitedPhiladelphia, PA$8,000112021
Legacy AtelierPhiladelphia, PA$8,000112023
Delaware River Waterfront CorporationPhiladelphia, PA$7,750112021
International Scholarship and Tuition Services IncNashville, TN$7,500112021
Ed Wheeler PhotographyRadnor, PA$6,667112021
Base for BusinessPrior Lake, MN$6,603112021
The Womens Coalition for Empowerment IncHarrisburg, PA$6,000112022
Welcome America IncPhiladelphia, PA$6,000112021
First Person Arts IncPhiladelphia, PA$5,500112022

16 of 58 (28%) 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 1 group 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 58 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.

Arts & Culture
7 orgs
Community Improvement
5 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Social Science
1 org
Recreation & Sports
1 org
Human Services
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202116$1,619,079$9,833
202224$2,463,381$20,812
202324$1,390,255$18,684
202418$2,243,147$33,008

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

54% of its giving went to organizations in Montana. 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.

Montana
$4.2M
Pennsylvania
$3.4M
New Jersey
$84K
Maryland
$50K
North Carolina
$33K
California
$9K
Tennessee
$8K
Minnesota
$7K

Down to the city

Missoula, MT
$4.2M
Philadelphia, PA
$2.5M
Norristown, PA
$263K
Exton, PA
$164K
Reading, PA
$145K
Media, PA
$127K

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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 Foundation6 shared recipientsThe William Penn Foundation6 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust5 shared recipientsThe Barra Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsThe Lenfest Institute for Journalism4 shared recipientsIndependence Foundation4 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 $18,125 -- 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 Montana.
  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 Philadelphia Industrial Development's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 4 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 14 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1500 Market Street 3500W, Philadelphia, PA, 19102.

EIN 23-6050858 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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