New Jersey · Nonprofit
HISTORIC MORVEN INC
HISTORIC MORVEN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,282,725 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($976,926). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Historic Morven Inc does
Mission
The mission of historic morven, inc. Is to preserve the national and historic landmark known as morven museum & garden by operating it as a museum and public garden that educates diverse audiences and showcases its rich history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization assists the state of new jersey in the preservation and restoration of the historic site known as morven by providing financial and technical assistance. It operates a museum and public garden at morven that showcases the cultural heritage of new jersey in accordance with the cooperative agreement between the organization and the state of new jersey. The museum staff care for the collections and collection items that are deposited or exhibited by morven. The organization educates the public about new jersey's cultural heritage through exhibition, interpretation, and cultural programs. The museum staff collaborates with other museums, historic sites, and educational organizations in the furtherance of these purposes.
$1,786,258 spent$341,299 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,786,258.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $16M to $27M (+64%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 4% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% · 2024 16% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HISTORIC MORVEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Rhonda Dimascio
Executive director
Board chair
Ellen Smith Morehouse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $127k → $272k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 MORVEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
HISTORIC MORVEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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
58% 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 MORVEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 68% · 2019 91% · 2020 68% · 2021 23% · 2022 27% · 2023 37% — 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
53% of HISTORIC MORVEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
52% of HISTORIC MORVEN INC'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MORVEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HISTORIC MORVEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.3M on record — $735k federal, $4.5M state.
- Department of the Interior$710k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$25k
- GRANT IN AID$2.3M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$1.9M
- TRUST FUND$156k
- BOND FUND$57k
- CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION$41k
- DEDICATED$15k
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 MORVEN INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 MORVEN INC: 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 MORVEN INC?
- HISTORIC MORVEN INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,282,725 to it, the largest being Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc ($976,926). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORIC MORVEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $2,282,725 in grants to HISTORIC MORVEN INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC MORVEN INC?
- Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $976,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC MORVEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 32 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