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HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC

HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,779 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($321,045). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$232k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$385k
Net assets
$353k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Historic Rittenhousetown Inc does

Mission

Historic Rittenhouse Town is dedicated to informing the public about the life and times of this early industrial village Americas first paper mill, founded in 1690. The non-profit organization is committed to the sites preservation through research, restoration and high-quality educational programming.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Educational programs and workshops

    $171,848 spent$105,729 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,848.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($330k)2018 Revenue 92 ($148k) Expenses 127 ($183k) Net assets 89 ($295k)2019 Revenue 94 ($152k) Expenses 149 ($215k) Net assets 70 ($232k)2020 Revenue 91 ($147k) Expenses 83 ($120k) Net assets 79 ($259k)2021 Revenue 115 ($186k) Expenses 86 ($123k) Net assets 97 ($321k)2022 Revenue 101 ($164k) Expenses 120 ($172k) Net assets 95 ($313k)2023 Revenue 139 ($224k) Expenses 147 ($211k) Net assets 99 ($325k)2024 Revenue 144 ($232k) Expenses 141 ($203k) Net assets 107 ($353k)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (141)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $322k to $266k (−17%).

$331k
$322k
$266k
$285k
$322k
$314k
$326k
$355k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

54% of HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
−$35k
’18
−$63k
’19
$27k
’20
$62k
’21
−$9k
’22
$13k
’23
$28k
’24
6.1
months of
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

Amy Ricci

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20232024
Listed1111
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $47k → $45k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 RITTENHOUSETOWN INC’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 RITTENHOUSETOWN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 RITTENHOUSETOWN INC.

83%
largest funder
97%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 77% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 89% · 2023 98% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

86% of HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN 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 $53k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $331k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC?
HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $384,779 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($321,045). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $384,779 in grants to HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC?
LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $321,045 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC RITTENHOUSETOWN INC 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 10 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