THE MERCHANTS FUND OF PHILADELPHIA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

T50

Classification

1000

Street

1617 JFK BLVD SUITE 2042

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 · 2025

• MAKE DIRECT GRANTS TO BUSINESSES, SUPPORTING RETIRED MERCHANTS THROUGH OUR LEGACY PROGRAM, AND OFFERING "BEYOND THE GRANT" SERVICES THAT PROVIDE COACHING AND OTHER BUSINESS SUPPORT SERVICES.

  Expenses $1,949,384 · Grants $1,580,824

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $2,185,121

  Expenses

  $2,290,619

  Contributions

  $1,673,875

  Grants paid

  $1,580,824

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,845,017

  Expenses

  $1,145,083

  Contributions

  $948,564

  Grants paid

  $661,544

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,632,137

  Expenses

  $1,771,946

  Contributions

  $1,191,325

  Grants paid

  $1,392,430

• 2022

  Revenue

  $540,760

  Expenses

  $1,100,033

  Contributions

  $158,252

  Grants paid

  $718,997

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

  $1,417,216

  Expenses

  $1,120,471

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,136,342

• 2020 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $1,912,991

  Expenses

  $2,319,013

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,703,121

• 2020 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $1,912,991

  Expenses

  $2,319,013

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,703,121

• 2019 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $2,858,221

  Expenses

  $670,775

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,168,889

• 2018 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  -$1,333,545

  Expenses

  $666,227

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,010,255

• 2017 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $2,299,247

  Expenses

  $792,031

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,004,386

• 2016 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $732,013

  Expenses

  $766,366

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,490,848

• 2015 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  -$208,476

  Expenses

  $794,752

  Assets (EOY)

  $14,507,421

• 2014 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $656,537

  Expenses

  $925,892

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,510,649

• 2013 · 990-PF

  Revenue

  $1,190,485

  Expenses

  $763,419

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,780,004

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• URBANE DEVELOPMENT INC

  $145,000

  2022 · COMMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING STRATEGIES

• URBANE DEVELOPMENT INC

  $100,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY WEALTH BUILDING STRATEGIES

• PLANT AND PEOPLE

  $26,100

  2025 · EMERGENCY

• COFFEE TEA & COMPANY

  $22,500

  2025 · DISCRETIONARY

• 2637BREW INC

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

• YOUNG'S BEAUTY SUPPLY

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

• AL'S CORNER DELI & CATERING

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

• ART HISTORY 101

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

• CURRANS IRISH INN

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

• DEBORAH'S KITCHEN

  $20,000

  2023 · EMERGENCY

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC

  $135,000

  2022 · FOR URBANE DEVELOPMENT (JAMES JOHNSON PIETT) FOR BII COHORT PARTICIPATORY GRANTMAKING POOL

• PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2024 · CHARITABLE STIPENDS TO LOCAL MERCHANTS IN FINANCIA

• COMMON FUTURE

  $10,000

  2022 · GRANT FOR BUSINESS SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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