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THE-PHILADELPHIA POVERTY ACTION FUND

EIN 87-2442054 PHILADELPHIA, PA

Revenue 2023
$5,442,006
Expenses 2023
$7,429,718

Program services were 98.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S12
Classification
1000
Street
1800 JOHN F KENNEDY BLVD STE 1200

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).

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.

  • MICHAEL BANKS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $262,434
    From this org
    $228,086
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,348
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $192,411
    Bonus
    $35,000
    Other
    $675
    Deferred
    $11,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,348
    Filer's total
    $262,434

  • DALILA WILSON-SCOTT

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DOUGLAS OLIVER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LESLIE CALLAHAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL FIELDS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • WILLIAM A GOLDERER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN JACOBSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MITCHELL LITTLE

    DIRECTOR (THRU 4/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HARRIET WEISS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,442,006
    Expenses
    $7,429,718
    Contributions
    $5,223,985
    Grants paid
    $6,038,842
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,546,151
    Expenses
    $8,430,259
    Contributions
    $1,487,805
    Grants paid
    $6,574,587

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.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 10 September 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.