Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,881 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD R NORFORD CHARITABLE FDN ($133,455). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $414k
- Net assets
- $-15566
What Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci does
Mission
The Society was formed to operate a passenger boat for public use on the Susquehanna River. Its goal is to provide educational, historical, and recreational activities and to promote a public interest in the Susquehanna River Basin,
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Susquehanna River Boat - to provide recreation and education,
$162,962 spent$107,925 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,962.
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 2017 to 2018, from $288k to $215k (−25%).
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 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Lori Ribbans
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $137k → $25k.
4 of 12 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 Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 12 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
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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 60% · 2018 90% · 2019 87% · 2020 83% · 2021 66% · 2022 56% · 2023 40% — 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 Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k 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
Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci's revenue fell 81% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $115k on record.
- Department of the Interior$115k
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 Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci: 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 Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci?
- Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,881 to it, the largest being THE EDWARD R NORFORD CHARITABLE FDN ($133,455). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $413,881 in grants to Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci?
- THE EDWARD R NORFORD CHARITABLE FDN is the largest funder on record, with $133,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Harrisburg Area Riverboat Soci 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 12 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