Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS
CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,408,406 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,062,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts does
Mission
Non-profit conservation center serving cultural,research and educational institutions,specializing in the treatment of paper-based artifacts and offering on-site consultation services,educational programs and seminars,internships and emergency conservation services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ccaha specializes in the treatment of works of art and historic artifacts on paper, including books, photographs, parchment, and papyrus. In 2024 ccaha staff treated over 2,500 artifacts; presented 72 educational programs; conducted preservation assessments; provided assistance with preservation planning for exhibitions; created preservation plans; conducted risk assessments; and developed emergency preparedness plans for collecting institutions. Ccaha offers internships and fellowships to emerging conservation professionals. To support its ability to expand services and reach more communities with its mission, in 2024, ccaha invested internal funds in growing staff capacity, facilities and infrastructure.
$3,575,600 spent$3,004,102 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,575,600.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.4M to $4.1M (+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: 2017 1% · 2018 20% · 2020 20% · 2021 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Michelle Eisenberg
Executive director
Board chair
Derek Jones
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $205k.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS’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
CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 63% · 2019 46% · 2020 91% · 2021 78% · 2022 90% · 2023 91% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS'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
CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$2.1M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$522k
- Smithsonian Institution$470k
- National Endowment for the Arts$221k
- Department of Defense$79k
- Department of the Interior$30k
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 CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS: 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 CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS?
- CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,408,406 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($1,062,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $2,408,406 in grants to CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,062,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONSERVATION CENTER FOR ART & HISTORIC ARTIFACTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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