Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,426 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($585,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia does
Mission
The carpenters' company preserves and interprets carpenters' hall and our collections as unique historical assets that are tied to our nation's founding and the master builder tradition, and we convene the public to explore and inspire new ideas that highlight the importance and relevance of history and the built environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
We offer a robust variety of public programs that explore aspects of american history and issues related to the built environment. These include temporary exhibits, author talks, panel discussions, etc. We partner extensively with our fellow museums and historic sites and other industry partners to develop and promote these events. Other programs include: young people's continental congresshigh school students and teachers from around the country convene to explore the founding of our nation and the values and principles that fueled it and continue to define our country today.david mccullough prize for excellence in american public history named in honor of author david mccullough, the prize promotes and celebrates outstanding contributions to the field of american public history. Winners include lonnie bunch, secretary of the smithsonian; bryan stevenson from the equal justice initiative; christy coleman from the jamestown-yorktown foundation; and broadcaster and author mo rocca. The mccullough prize is also given to a history teacher within the philadelphia public school system. Master builders' institute mbi strengthens and diversifies the ace professions (architecture,…
$1,228,435 spentof which $18,000 as grants$257,134 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,228,435.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+19%).
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: 2020 22% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA’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. 2 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
Michael Norris
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $5k → $357k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. 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
CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 45% · 2021 27% · 2022 52% · 2023 21% — diversifying over time.
“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
67% of CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
95% of CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $819k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA has grown faster than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $655k on record.
- Department of the Interior$500k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$105k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
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 CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: 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 CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,217,426 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($585,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,217,426 in grants to CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $585,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA 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 31 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing