Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES
EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,569 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($75,469). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $158k
- Net assets
- $620k
What Ephrata Cloister Associates does
Mission
The ephrata cloister's historic buildings, collections, and programming invite the exploration of this unique community's spiritual, creative, and intellectual accomplishments by encouraging visitors to develop a personal connection to pennsylvania's significant role in religious toleration and intellectual freedom. The Ephrata Cloister Associates is dedicated to the continued preservation and promotion of the ephrata cloister through the sponsorship of special cloister related events such as lantern tours, apple dumpling day, day of music, christmas at the cloister, the student historian program and other education programs for special audiences. The ephrata cloister chorus, sponsored by the associates, is unique as it relates to the museum and the historic site. The chorus performs several of over 1,000 hymns written at the site. In addition to ephrata's past, the group performs compositions from other early american communities including works from the shakers, the moravians, the ha
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A community-based not-for-profit since 1958, the organization, in partnership with the pennsylvania historical and museum commission, creates programs that feature the unique music, art, architecture, and spiritual practice of this pre-revolutionary community. The organization supports the cloister chorus, founded in 1959, which offers historically informed performances of music composed in early ephrata. Regular site programs and an artisan-rich museum store combine with a calendar of sponsored special events like winter history class, school-based community days, christmas at the cloister, the ice cream social, and chorus concerts as a means to engage the community, invite exploration, promote local tourism, and preserve the legacy of this national historic landmark. The organization also provides visitor services and regular guided tours; raises funds; and assists in acquiring artifacts using money donated to the back to the cloister fund.
$84,862 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,862.
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 $380k to $568k (+50%).
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 0% · 2018 0% · 2021 31% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
43% of EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES’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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 73% 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 EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES’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
EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 51% · 2020 71% · 2021 78% · 2022 73% · 2023 55% — 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.
Where its funders are
73% of EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES'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. Of the $42k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k 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
EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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 EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES: 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 EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES?
- EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $157,569 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($75,469). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $157,569 in grants to EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,469 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EPHRATA CLOISTER ASSOCIATES 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing