Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY
GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,900 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $251k
What Governor Wolf Historical Society does
Mission
Historical preservation & restoration
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Historical preservation & restoration
$34,865 spentof which $10,319 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,865.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $214k to $261k (+22%).
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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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: 2019 71% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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.
Public support
94%
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 GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,900 to it, the largest being ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $9,900 in grants to GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
- Who is the largest funder of GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- ESSA BANK & TRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOVERNOR WOLF HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 4 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