Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EASTERN NATIONAL
EASTERN NATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,253 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($884,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $893k
- Net assets
- $22M
What Eastern National does
Mission
Eastern National promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Eastern National is a not-for-profit educational service institution recognized pursuant to an act of congress to aid and promote the interpretive, historical, scientific, research and conservation activities of the national park service (nps) and other government agencies. Eastern National also develops publications and other interpretive materials relevant to the parks and their themes. Eastern National operates retail outlets at national park service and other public agencies that offer educational and interpretive products to the visitors of the parks. Approximately 95% of the net income from this activity is set aside to be donated back to the national park service or other agency in subsequent years to support the parks and assist with their interpretive and educational programs and activities.
$24,511,451 spentof which $2,495,506 as grants$27,471,025 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,511,451.
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 2020 to 2021, from $21M to $29M (+40%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of EASTERN NATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (11% 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
Kevin Kissling
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $22k → $85k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 EASTERN NATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
EASTERN NATIONAL 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 EASTERN NATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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
EASTERN NATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
EASTERN NATIONAL is better cushioned than half of the 184 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 recreation & sports nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding EASTERN NATIONAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $409k on record — $408k federal, $1k state.
- Department of Agriculture$381k
- Department of the Interior$27k
- DEDICATED$1k
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 EASTERN NATIONAL
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The National Park Service Employee and Alumni Trust Fund · exempt
- Employee & Alumni Association of the National Park Service · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN NATIONAL: 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 EASTERN NATIONAL?
- EASTERN NATIONAL (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $893,253 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($884,850). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EASTERN NATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $893,253 in grants to EASTERN NATIONAL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN NATIONAL?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $884,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN NATIONAL 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 5 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