Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation
Philadelphia, PA · EIN 23-2952488. Reported 58 grants totalling $975,000 to 58 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 8% 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.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Womens Opportunities Resource Center | Philadelphia, PA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artphilly | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artreach Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bradford Area Alliance | Bradford, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brockway Old Fashioned 4TH of July Inc | Brockway, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bucks County Childrens Museum | New Hope, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carpenters Company of the City and County of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clinton County | Lock Haven, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| County of Berks | Reading, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Endless Mountain Music Festival | Wellsboro, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fort Ligonier Association | Ligonier, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Franklin County Visitors Bureau Inc | Chambersburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Flight 93 National Memorial Inc | Shanksville, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Washington Crossing Park | Wshngtn Xing, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historic Trappe | Collegeville, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ironpigs Charities | Allentown, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jack Miller Center for Teaching Americas Founding Principles and | Bala Cynwyd, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lower Paxton Community Foundation | Harrisburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mann Center for the Performing Arts | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Monroe County One | Stroudsburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nepal Youth Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oil Region Alliance of Business Industry & Tourism | Oil City, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Bedford Village Inc | Bedford, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pennsylvania Educational Communications Systems | Camp Hill, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | Merion Sta, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Railroaders Heritage Corporation | Altoona, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Union County Veterans 4TH of July Committee Inc | Lewisburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce | Williamsport, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wilma Theater Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westmoreland County | Greensburg, PA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Actors Circle Inc | Scranton, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amwell Township Volunteer Fire Company | Amity, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Andrew Carnegie Free Library | Carnegie, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Butler County Symphony Association | Butler, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| County of Pike | Milford Pa, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Deane Center for the Performingarts Inc | Wellsboro, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Downtown Hawley Partnership Inc | Hawley, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Valley Forge | Kng of Prussa, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Historical Society of Dauphin County | Harrisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| International Churchill Society | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johnstown Symphony Orchestra | Johnstown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lancasterhistory Org | Lancaster, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lebanon County Tourism Promotion Agency | Lebanon, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lumber Heritage Region of Pa Inc | Curwensville, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Main Line Art Center | Haverford, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Riverstage Community Theatre | Lewisburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rockledge 4TH of July Parade Association | Rockledge, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steam Into History Inc | New Freedom, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology | Allentown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Mill at Anselma Preservation and Educational Trust Inc | Chester Sprgs, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Tun Legacy Foundation Inc | Churchville, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| World Affairs Council of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Watsontown Borough | Watsontown, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 43 of 58 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
97% 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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Pennsylvania.
- 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 Visitor Center Corporation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 12 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: 6TH and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA, 19106.
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