Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead
Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,200 to it, the largest being LL Charitable Foundation ($66,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $162k
- Net assets
- $121k
What Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead does
Mission
Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead preserves and interprets an 18th-century working farm to educate the public about early American agriculture domestic life and rural craftsmanship. The organization cares for historic structures maintains heritage livestock and crops and conducts hands-on demonstrations of period farming practices. Through school programs public tours seasonal events and living-history activities the Farmstead offers immersive educational experiences promoting understanding of Pennsylvanias colonial-era rural heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational - The Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead provided curriculum-aligned educational programs for regional schools homeschool groups and youth organizations. Students engaged in immersive activities like colonial farming tasks historic trades and daily life demonstrations. These programs aligned with state learning standards in history agriculture and social studies benefiting around 6,500 students annually.
$245,999 spent$167,299 earned by the program77% of program spendingHistoric farm interpretation - The Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead operated an 18th-century working farm offering hands-on educational experiences. Staff and trained interpreters showcased historic agricultural practices livestock care foodways and domestic crafts to visitors year-round. The Farmstead hosted school groups families and community members for guided tours living-history demonstrations and seasonal programs to enhance awareness of Pennsylvanias colonial-era rural heritage.
$50,961 spent$6,606 earned by the program16% of program spendingCommunity events - The Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead hosted public events and workshops highlighting traditional farming seasonal agricultural cycles and eighteenth-century rural culture. Activities included harvest celebrations craft demonstrations heritage livestock presentations and volunteer engagement days fostering community awareness of local history and providing educational opportunities for visitors of all ages.
$20,792 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $317,752.
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 2021 to 2022, from $159k to $107k (−33%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 39% · 2021 25% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 20% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Sarah Lerch
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead’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
Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 83% · 2021 96% · 2022 65% · 2023 97% — 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
75% of Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
83% of Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead: 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 Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead?
- Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $162,200 to it, the largest being LL Charitable Foundation ($66,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $162,200 in grants to Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead?
- LL Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Colonial Pennsylvania Farmstead 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 9 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