Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
AACA MUSEUM INC
AACA MUSEUM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,224 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J CAMMACK FOUNDATION CO WILLIAM D CAMMACK ($508,610). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $729k
- Net assets
- $18M
What Aaca Museum Inc does
Mission
The aaca museum is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of motor vehicle history in a manner that provides for the education and entertainment of our guests.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The principal program service of the aaca museum consists of its yearly operation. It is dedicated to the preservation, education, and display of motor vehicle history, and it hosted nearly 34,000 visitors this year (not included special events). The displays in the museum are educational in nature, and there are specific educational programs conducted as well. In recognition of the quality of its exhibits and programs, the aaca museum has qualified for affiliate museum status with the smithsonian institution. The aaca museum has also been recognized by a wide variety of automotive journals and news periodicals as one of the top automotive museums in the world. In recent years, including 2025. The museum received the harrisburg magazine's reader's choice award for best museum and rankedin the top 5 in usa today's online vote for best national attraction for car lovers.1. The displays comprise approximately 70,000 square feet of space with a feature exhibition that takes visitors on a cross-country journey beginning in new york city and ending in california at san francisco's golden gate bridge. Each "decade" is in a different geographic area and features a distinctive painted…
$1,257,608 spent$406,455 earned by the program75% of program spendingThe aaca museum, inc. Is a public non-profit organization that offers a diverse membership program. The membership program is intended to grow our "museum family" across all categories, from individuals and families to corporate members. Accordingly, some of the current categories include: individual, family, supporting, lifetime, and 161 society (our highest level of membership whose members periodically have the opportunity to participate in automotive based travels locally, domestically and sometimes internationally). Several years ago, the museum has expanded its membership levels to include a membership add on for the tucker automobile preservation society. Memberships focus on our world class collection, and offer special educational programs, newsletters, and other subject related benefits. We also have a corporate membership level that appeals to local businesses who want to become part of the museum's family but are not yet in a position to become a sustained sponsor of our regular programs or events. Membership is also offered to volunteers who have contributed a specific number of hours, and to those who "adopt a car" from the museum's collection. Additionally, anyone…
$368,898 spent$79,379 earned by the program22% of program spendingPublic education is an integral component of the museum's mission and linked to its activities. The educational program begins with the wide variety of cars, trucks, buses, and motorcycles displayed (approximately 150 in the main building) that range from the late 1800s through the 1990s. It is supported by historically accurate backdrops that populate each decade scene in the main gallery. Some current vehicle models may also been seen as part of the museum's "then and now" rotating exhibit. Additionally, smaller themed exhibitions may be found throughout all three floors, including two wheeled vehicles, a world class display of approximately 500 radiator caps and hood ornaments arranged chronologically and geographically by country of origin, license plate collections, themed and grouped two-dimensional artwork and stand-alone interactive units placed throughout our space. All exhibited items are supported by descriptive labels and other interpretive devices. The museum is also staffed by trained volunteer gallery guides or docents who enhance the visitors' experience and protect the collections. The museum has two changing galleries, which will be discussed below and…
$50,304 spent$15,173 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,676,810.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $17M (+17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 10% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of AACA MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jeffrey Bliemeister
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $32k → $173k.
2 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AACA MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AACA MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 34% · 2019 48% · 2020 59% · 2021 66% · 2022 74% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of AACA MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AACA MUSEUM INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AACA MUSEUM INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AACA MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $252 on record.
- Agency Fund Payments$252
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AACA MUSEUM INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AACA MUSEUM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AACA MUSEUM INC?
- AACA MUSEUM INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,224 to it, the largest being WILLIAM J CAMMACK FOUNDATION CO WILLIAM D CAMMACK ($508,610). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AACA MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $729,224 in grants to AACA MUSEUM INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AACA MUSEUM INC?
- WILLIAM J CAMMACK FOUNDATION CO WILLIAM D CAMMACK is the largest funder on record, with $508,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AACA MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing