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NINTH PLANET
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the Philadelphia Cultural Fund awards grants to hundreds of arts & culture programs each year—reaching all corners of this city we love.

Arts &

Culture Grants

The Cultural Fund promotes arts and culture as engines of social, educational and economic development in the Philadelphia region.

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WHO
WE ARE

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund is how the City of Philadelphia has funded the arts since 1994.

WHO
WE ARE

Each year, PCF provides operating support to Philadelphia-based arts and culture organizations. These grants are made from an allocation to PCF from the City budget.

WHO
WE ARE

The grants support organizations dedicated to the creation, education, preservation, exhibition, and presentation of a variety of arts and culture disciplines.

WHO
WE ARE

PCF is committed to removing barriers to grant applications, especially for small, community-based arts organizations that are traditionally considered ineligible for funding support.

2024 PCF
REBRAND

“… the Philadelphia Cultural Fund — a respected, equitably distributed, nearly three-decades-old resource that supports hundreds of cultural nonprofits every year —…”

-Philadelphia Inquirer

2024 Grant Winners

Friends of the Rail Park

DISTRICT:

1

5 Shorts Project

DISTRICT:

9

Wildflower Composers

DISTRICT:

8

Putty Dance Project

DISTRICT:

6

Friends of Laurel Hill & West Laurel Hill Cemeteries

DISTRICT:

4

The Center for Emerging Visual Artists

DISTRICT:

2

Leonard Pearlstein Gallery

DISTRICT:

3

Girls Rock Philly

DISTRICT:

7

Painted Bride Art Center

DISTRICT:

3

Usiloquy Dance Designs

DISTRICT:

5

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COMMUNITY
CALENDAR

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Akkarai Sisters (Carnatic Music) | Fire Museum Presents

The Return of Benjamin Lay (Opening) | Quintessence Theatre

Opening Reception: Scattered Earth, Sounded Depth | Arthur Ross Gallery

Reception for The Edge of Abstraction | InLiquid

Sketching The Athenaeum | Athenaeum of Philadelphia

CLOUD PAINTING with Jihan Thomas | Da Vinci Art Alliacne

Memory Futures: Desi Transcendence | Usiloquy Dance

First Friday for “Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points” | The Museum for Art in Wood

New Exhibitions by Peter Handler, Karen Singer & Mason Carter (Closing) | iMPeRFeCT Gallery

Take Me Out to the Ballgame: A musical event | Philomusica Chorale

May First Saturday Open House: AnatoMAY with the Mütter Museum | Wagner Free Institute of Science

Bodies of Water | The Naked Stark

Exhibition Closing: Echoes of Change and Origin | InLiquid Gallery

Loboko with Special guest Lollise | Fire Museum Presents

Sip & Snip: Wine and Collage Night | Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Ligament, Sydeboob duo & Layer Meat | Fire Museum Presents

Bar Tog/Cecilia Lopez duo, Ben Bennett & Kyle Press/Paul Walker duo | Fire Museum Presents

Artist Talk with Steven CW Taylor | The Print Center

Now is the Month of Maying | Piffaro, the Renaissance Band

CAFÉ FOR CARE PARTNERS Cascarones Workshop with Marta Sanchez - ARTZ Philadelphia

Allegro Chamber Music Series: Musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra | Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Pure Lucia – Night 1: Quidditas Suchness | bowerbird

ARTZ Notes with Keisha Hutchins Hirlinger | ARTZ Philadelphia

Spring Concert Series | The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble

Pure Lucia – Night 2: Duende Otherness | bowerbird

History Dog & Totally Automatic | Fire Museum Presents

La Sylphide | Philadelphia Ballet

Mother's Day Tea Party | Historic St. George's Museum & Archives

Peco Family Jams: One Book One Philadelphia | Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Disenchanted! (Closing) | Old Academy Players

Just a Moment (Closing) | InLiquid

Everything But the Kitchen Sink Workshop | Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens

The Arts Affair 2025 | Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

The Return of Benjamin Lay (Closing) | Quintessence Theatre

Lia Kohl & Carrie DeCunzo | Fire Museum Presents

Broadway Cabaret: Julie Benko | Rittenhouse Grill

Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concerts Presents: Vocalist Ella Gahnt | Jazz Bridge Project, Inc.

2025 Showcase Recital | The Primavera Fund

Take Me To Fendika - Documentary screening | Fire Museum Presents

James Baldwin’s "Giovanni’s Room" (Opening) | Quintessence Theatre Group

Conversation with Cecilia Paredes | The Print Center

Generations Unbroken: 50 Years Forward - Not One Step Back | Anna Crusis Feminist Choir

Drumlines at the Symphony: An All-Star 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert | Musicopia

IVA Presents "Scandinavian Folk and Art Songs" | Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation

325th Anniversary of Gloria Dei (Old Swedes’) Church | Historic Gloria Dei Preservation Corporation

Franklin's Key (Opening) | Pig Iron Theatre Company

Elfreth's Alley Fete Day | Elfreth's Alley Association

Sun Ra Arkestra | World Cafe Live

West Park Arts Fest | West Park Cultural Center

Space Opera | Obvious Agency

Annual Islamic Heritage Festival @ Penn's Landing | ICPIC New Africa Center

Space Opera | Obvious Agency

James Baldwin’s "Giovanni’s Room" (Closing) | Quintessence Theatre Group

Davy Knowles | World Cafe Live

Space Opera | Obvious Agency

Franklin's Key (Closing) | Pig Iron Theatre Company

Laurie Olin, Drawing to See: The Italian Sketchbooks (Closing)

Dave Kiss Presents: Os Mutantes with Pinc Louds | World Cafe Live

ARTS Notes Fun in the Sun with MB Singley | ARTZ Philadelphia

Cecilia Paredes: By my side or back of me (Closing) | The Print Center

Know Return - Celebrating The Music of Kansas & Styx | World Cafe Live

Katie Hudnall: The Longest Distance between Two Points (Closing) | Museum for Art in Wood

September 7, 2025

Exhibition Closing - Unforeseen Matter | InLiquid

September 8, 2025

Word Powered: Exploring Free Speech Through Art (Closing) | National Liberty Museum

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2024 Grantee Data

PCF Awarded $3,599,494 to 262 Art & Culture Grantees

1

,

%

of grant recipients had budgets under $250,000

%

of grantees recipients provide youth programming

aid full-time, part-time, and/or independent contractor positions were activated

people attended free grantee programming

$

in direct expenditures benefited the local economy

IN THE
NEWS

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William Penn Foundation Awards $8 Million to Support Small Arts and Culture Organizations

William Penn Foundation gives an $8 million Boost to City Arts & Culture - Philadelphia Inquirer

FY25 Grant Cycle Updates - A Letter from the BOD

2024 PCF Annual Report

2023 Annual Report

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Awards $3,178,986

Gabriela Sanchez Announced as PCF Director

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Awards $3,267,407

Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Philadelphia City Countil to Invest Over $3 Million In Local Arts Communty

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