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CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC

CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,200 to it, the largest being POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$190k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$396k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Carousel at Pottstown Inc does

Mission

The organization was conceived primarily to restore, operate, maintain and preserve a historically significant carousel for the enjoyment of the pottstown community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organizations purpose is to preserve the historical value of pottstowns carousel while acting as a focal point for bringing together persons of various ages, persuasions, incomes, and cultural heritages

    $154,817 spent$140,295 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $154,817.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($134k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 96 ($56k) Expenses 169 ($227k) Net assets 83 ($841k)2021 Revenue 209 ($122k) Expenses 108 ($145k) Net assets 59 ($596k)2022 Revenue 178 ($104k) Expenses 138 ($185k) Net assets 51 ($515k)2023 Revenue 232 ($135k) Expenses 155 ($208k) Net assets 44 ($442k)2024 Revenue 217 ($127k) Expenses 122 ($164k) Net assets 40 ($405k)2025 Revenue 326 ($190k) Expenses 130 ($175k) Net assets 39 ($396k)
2017201820212022202320242025
Revenue (326)Expenses (130)Net assets (39)Peer revenue range

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 $1.0M to $846k (−16%).

$1.0M
$846k
$601k
$520k
$447k
$405k
$396k
2017201820212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 41% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

26% of CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$76k
’17
−$171k
’18
−$23k
’21
−$81k
’22
−$73k
’23
−$37k
’24
$15k
’25
4.6
months of
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.

2017201820212022202320242025
Listed1061010968
Joined·+2·+0+0+1+4
No longer listed·6·0142
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $49.

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN 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

CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

100% of CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve4.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 8%Fundraising 3%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

71%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC?
CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,200 to it, the largest being POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,200 in grants to CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN INC?
POTTSTOWN REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FKA POTTSTOWN AREA HEALTH AND WELLNESS is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAROUSEL AT POTTSTOWN 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.

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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 2 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