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EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART
EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,014 to it, the largest being ISAIAH F EVERHART ($262,597). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $973k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $837k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Everhart Museum of Natural History Science and Art does
Mission
The mission of the everhart museum of natural history, science, and art is to foster knowledge and enjoyment of natural history, science, art, and culture through a variety of exhibitions, educational programs, and events for people of all ages and backgrounds throughout northeastern pennsylvania. The museum cares for the extensive collections entrusted to it to preserve the region's cultural and natural heritage as well as to document cultures and natural objects from around the world, facilitating a deeper connection between the community and the world around them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During 2023, the museum presented four temporary exhibitions to the public: (1) the scholastic art gold key exhibition, a showcase of the best artwork of the northeastern pennsylvania region's high school students; (2) women in art: a showcase of the exceptional artistic legacy of female artists in northeastern pennsylvania and beyond; (3) teen mini masterpieces: an exhibition of art by young artists from across northeastern pennsylvania; (4) wild bees: a traveling exhibition of work by photojournalist and writer paula sharp and photographer ross eatman, features colorful high-resolution photographs of bees in their natural habitats. Open to the public throughout the year, the everhart museum also provided guided tours of its permanent and temporary exhibitions. The museum offered a number of educational programs, incluidng the lackawanna county libraries for kindness canvas, back to school fair, earth day outreach, honey bee and harvest day festival, and museum adventure tool kits. The everhart museum held children specific programs including, everhart expressions and mini masters. The museum also hosted various free admission/community days, including everhart in bloom, rakin'…
$515,758 spent$12,213 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $515,758.
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 $4.2M to $3.5M (−17%).
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 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 53% · 2020 46% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Caroline Munley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $55k → $125k.
6 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 46% · 2019 36% · 2020 48% · 2021 56% · 2022 44% · 2023 24% — 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
50% of EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
89% of EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART
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
62% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART?
- EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $837,014 to it, the largest being ISAIAH F EVERHART ($262,597). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $837,014 in grants to EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART?
- ISAIAH F EVERHART is the largest funder on record, with $262,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERHART MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SCIENCE AND ART 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 34 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