Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED
HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,126 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($590,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $12k
What Historic Germantown Preserved does
Mission
Hgp is an consortium of 19 historical sites concentrated in philadelphia. Hgp provides program support with coordinated marketing and operational plans.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Historic Germantown is a partnership of eighteen historical sites that have come together to protect, preserve and share some of Philadelphias most prized historical assets. The organization functions as a visitor and community hub and works to incorporate historic sites into the life of the local community. The organizations keys programs include the Germantown Second Saturday Festival, coordinated in partnership with the local CDC; At Home in the Old German Township House Tour; Sustaining our Sites, an initiative aimed at raising funds for exterior repair projects at member sites; Kids Concerts in Market Square Park; Public Author and Reading Series; Elephants on the Avenue - Race, Class and Community in Historic Germantown (2015-2017) - Pew Center for Arts and Heritage funded community program using art as a catalyst for engagement and dialogue around issues of race and class, Culture Keepers Youth Program and a number of art and history public programs. Historic Germantown also assists with the administration of the award winning History Hunters Youth Reporter Program.
$369,097 spentof which $41,620 as grants51% of program spendingThe William Penn Foundation. This community grant supports to improve, document, promote, and increase our community access to and equity in the public spaces of our 19 member sites.
$266,953 spentof which $51,762 as grants$266,956 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe Pew Center for Arts and Heritage. This grant supports that Historic Germantown, Stenton, and Clivden would collaborate with the 19-member Historic Germantown consortium to build capacity for community engagement through in-person and virtual means.
$42,606 spentof which $3,000 as grants6% of program spendingThe Sustaining Our Site (SOS) fund was launched in 2014 to further the sustainability of all member sites and to draw the consortium sites together in collective development. The funds mission is to pay for the preservation, repair, and maintenance projects of the members sites.
$41,500 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $720,156.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $44k to $198k (+348%).
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: 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 8% · 2021 5% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED’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 7 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.
Chief executive
Tuomi Forrest
Executive director
Board chair
Carolyn Adams
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $83k → $332k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED’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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 38% · 2019 66% · 2020 72% · 2021 67% · 2022 46% · 2023 81% — 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
33% of HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k 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
HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $138k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$109k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$30k
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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED
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
93%
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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED: 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 GERMANTOWN PRESERVED?
- HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,126 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION ($590,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,521,126 in grants to HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED?
- THE WILLIAM PENN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $590,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC GERMANTOWN PRESERVED 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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