Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC
FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,211 to it, the largest being JOHN NESBIT REES & SARAH HENNE REES CHARITABLE FOU ($315,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $491k
- Net assets
- $755k
What Friends of Drake Well Inc does
Mission
Friends of drake well, inc., is a nonprofit community-based organization that actively supports the administration and operation of drake well museum and park and its associated site, historic pithole city, in partnership with the pennsylvania historical and museum commission. Friends of drake well supports drake well museum by providing staffing for the site, educational programming including the school tour program, marketing/promotion and outreach, preservation of the museum's collections, and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Friends of drake well provides support for all the events and educational programs presented by drake well museum and park and its associated site of historic pithole city. This support includes but is not limited to marketing and promoting all events and programs (advertising, flyers, social media, local news media), purchasing supplies and materials needed for the events and programs, securing nearly 15,000 in event sponsorships (fy 24-25), and assisting with the planning, development and implementation of each event and program. Drake well museum and park holds at least nine different events each year; these do not include fundraising events. Main events for the site include the wisdom & more lecture series held every thursday evening in march (86 attendees total in last fiscal year), discovery days children's summer camp on thursdays in july (67 campers total in last fiscal year), drake day celebration in august (426 attendees in last fiscal year), and the fall gas up in september (315 attendees in last fiscal year) which showcases various equipment from the early oilfields of pennsylvania. Drake well museum had 18,098 visitors to the site in fy 2024-25; over 1,940 of these…
$232,798 spent100% of program spendingFriends of drake well performs all marketing, promotion, and outreach for drake well museum and park and its associated site of historic pithole city. Friends of drake well revitalized the museum's outreach program at the end of fy 24-25 by hiring a full-time outreach coordinator and having that person attend various community and regional events in an effort to promote drake well museum and bring in more visitors to the site. The coordinator and volunteers host informational tables at county fairs, community festivals, and other similar events where they can provide information on the museum and its exhibits/grounds, its mission, the history of the early petroleum industry of pennsylvania, and scheduling tours and visits. The coordinator also attends conventions for bus tour companies and actively contacts tour companies and similar businesses to encourage them to visit drake well museum. In addition to the outreach program, friends of drake well also develops, releases, and funds all marketing materials for the museum including press releases, posters and flyers, print advertisements, radio advertisements, and digital marketing campaigns on websites and social media platforms.…
Friends of drake well employs up to 9 different staff throughout the year to support the operation and mission of drake well museum and its associated site historic pithole city. The organization's staff includes a full-time executive director who oversees all fundraising, development, and marketing for the museum as well as assisting with the many different projects, programs and events held by the museum. There is also a full-time outreach coordinator who oversees the new outreach program for the museum, and a full-time employee who performs all custodial duties for the museum as well as assisting with admissions and curatorial projects. In addition to the three full-time staff, friends of drake well also employs a part- time bookkeeper, and two part-time staff to operate the museum's admissions point of sales and gift shop. Three seasonal part-time staff, funded through a private grant, assist with the operation and historical interpretation of drake well museum's full scale working replica of the original drake well of 1859. Another seasonal part-time employee is the pithole coordinator which oversees operations of historic pithole city, an associated site of the museum,…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $232,798.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $907k to $817k (−10%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $55k → $80k.
1 of 8 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 FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC’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
FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
81% of FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211 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.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC?
- FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $491,211 to it, the largest being JOHN NESBIT REES & SARAH HENNE REES CHARITABLE FOU ($315,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $491,211 in grants to FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC?
- JOHN NESBIT REES & SARAH HENNE REES CHARITABLE FOU is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DRAKE WELL INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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