Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,001,181 to it, the largest being LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($464,779). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites does
Mission
The organization manages, preserves, and restores historical sites in the bethlehem area and presents educational programs and activities on the history of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Historic Bethlehem Museums and Sites brings history to life by educating the public about bethlehem's rich heritage. Historic bethlehem partnership is committed to preserving bethlehem's historic sites by collecting, preserving, and exhibiting historical and artistic objects that can be used to tell the stories of bethlehem's people.
$1,698,777 spent$480,746 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,698,777.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.8M to $14M (+388%).
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 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 2% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 18% · 2023 12% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Joel Rosenfeld
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $60k → $178k.
9 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES’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
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
72% 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 HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 61% · 2019 39% · 2020 33% · 2021 43% · 2022 72% · 2023 28% — 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
47% of HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
54% of HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES'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 $914k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record — $500k federal, $222 state.
- Department of the Interior$500k
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $222
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 HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES: 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 HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES?
- HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,001,181 to it, the largest being LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($464,779). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,001,181 in grants to HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES?
- LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $464,779 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC BETHLEHEM MUSEUMS AND SITES 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 29 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing