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PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY

EIN 81-1252189 JAMESTOWN, RI

Revenue 2023
$778,622
Expenses 2023
$1,021,876

Program services were 73.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
26 GREEN LN

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

WE CONNECT THE PEOPLE AND PLACES OF PHILADELPHIA THROUGH ART AND PARTNERSHIP. THE ORGANIZATION IS A FREE-STANDING PLATFORM THAT ENDEAVORS TO SHOW FORWARD-THINKING, HIGH-QUALITY CONTEMPORARY VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE ART IN THE CITY. THE ORGANIZATION IS A NEXUS FOR EMERGING CULTURAL PRODUCERS, DIVERSE FOUNDATIONS AND SUPPORTERS AS WELL AS DYNAMIC AUDIENCES AND COMMUNITIES IN AND BEYOND THE CITY. RATHER THAN ACQUIRING AND MAINTAINING A PERMANENT COLLECTION, THE ORGANIZATION IS A NON-COLLECTING, MULTI- DISCIPLINARY, AND SUSTAINABLE ART VENUE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE CONNECT THE PEOPLE AND PLACES OF PHILADELPHIA THROUGH ART AND PARTNERSHIP.

  • THROUGH PROGRAMMATIC INNOVATION, THE SPOKEN WORD PROGRAM EXPLORES NOTIONS OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE LIBERTY THROUGH THE ACT OF SPEECH AND ELEVATES POETRY, SPOKEN WORD, AND PERFORMANCE TO COEQUAL BRANCHES OF CONTEMPORARY ART.

    Expenses $237,086

  • THE CITYWIDE INITIATIVES PROGRAMMING RECOGNIZES SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AS THE DETERMINING FACTOR IN PROGRAMMING ACROSS COMMUNITIES AND THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE CITY. THIS PROGRAM FOREGROUNDS ACCOUNTABILITY, RECIPROCITY, AND LISTENING AS THE VALUES THAT CENTER OUR WORK.

    Expenses $380,199

  • ECOLOGICAL FUTURES PROGRAMMING FOCUSES ON OUR SUSTAINED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DELAWARE RIVER AND ADDRESSES ISSUES AROUND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES ESPECIALLY THOSE IMPACTING OUR URBAN COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $16,642

  • LIVED CULTURE THE LIVED CULTURE PROGRAMS CELEBRATE AND PRESENT ART THAT EMBRACES THE BREADTH OF WHAT ART CAN BE BEYOND ITS TRADITIONAL FORMS AND INSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS. EDUCATION THE YOUTH AMBASSADOR PROGRAM IS A HIGH-IMPACT PLACE-BASED EDUCATION PROGRAM CENTERED ON THE ARTS, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH WITH TIES TO THE MANTUA COMMUNITY IN WEST PHILADELPHIA. SPECIAL INITIATIVES OUR COMMITMENT TO COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS AND FLEXIBLE AND NIMBLE APPROACH TO PROGRAMMING HOLDS SPACE FOR PROGRAMMING OPPORTUNITIES AS THEY ARISE SUCH AS COMMUNITY MURALS AND UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS TO PRESENT INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTISTS. CURATORIAL PROGRAMS (ALL OF THE ABOVE) THROUGH AN EMPHASIS ON PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATION, OUR CURATORIAL PROGRAMMING BRINGS INNOVATIVE CONTEMPORARY ART TO PHILADELPHIA'S COMMUNITIES AND MOUNTS TEMPORARY, ROTATING EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND PROJECTS THAT EMPHASIZE RELEVANT, EXPERIMENTAL, AND DYNAMIC WORK FROM LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS. PC SPACE PHILADELPHIA CONTEMPORARY IS FOCUSING ON DEVELOPING A LONG-TERM HOME: AN INNOVATIVE, ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE, NET-ZERO, FLOATING GALLERY ON THE DELAWARE RIVER.

    Expenses $113,886

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • JUDITH THOMAS

    CHIEF OF STA

    Total calculated
    $102,500
    From this org
    $102,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • HARRY PHILBRICK

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $39,768
    From this org
    $39,768
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • JENNY BOGONI

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SAMUEL OLSHIN

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $778,622
    Expenses
    $1,021,876
    Contributions
    $778,584
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,233,472
    Expenses
    $2,637,635
    Contributions
    $1,202,258
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,163,475
    Expenses
    $2,078,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,094,890

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,783,508
    Expenses
    $2,148,339
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,101,199

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,737,072
    Expenses
    $2,334,504
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,434,784

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025

Tax period
1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Principal officer
Harry Philbrick
Mailing address
26 Green LaneJamestown RI 02835

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.