Where Partnership Meets Progress

2025 IMPACT REPORT

A Letter From pedro

To our donors, partners, friends, and the wider community:

I am pleased to share Philadelphia Foundation’s 2025 impact report. This year’s theme is Where Partnership Meets Progress, which I feel captures something we have always believed and that 2025 confirmed in powerful ways. None of the progress reflected in these pages was possible alone. Every milestone, every fund launched, every coalition convened, every life reached was the product of partnership.

In our work as a civic catalyst, trusted partner, and strategic problem-solver, Philadelphia Foundation seeks to strengthen the economic, social, and civic vitality of our region. In 2025, that work took on new urgency. The challenges facing our region demanded resources but also coordination, commitment, and trust built over time.

The response we witnessed in 2025, from donors, nonprofits, government, philanthropy, business, and community, was everything we could have hoped for.

We also deepened our investment in the kind of civic infrastructure that makes all of this possible. Our Conversations in Civic Leadership series grew into a meaningful forum for candid exchange between our donor community and the leaders shaping Philadelphia’s future. Our Civic Coalition to Save Lives continued its evidence-based work, contributing to Philadelphia’s homicide rate reaching its lowest level since 2007. And through Philly Gives, now in its second year, we helped raise more than $1 million for nonprofits whose stories deserve to be told.

This is a story of many organizations working together and what becomes possible when the right partners commit to each other and to this region over time. We have what it takes to build a more equitable and prosperous Philadelphia and we have seen the proof of that in 2025.

We are grateful to be in this work alongside you.

Thank you all for being Key to Our Community.