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HISTORIC TRAPPE

HISTORIC TRAPPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,634 to it, the largest being THE ARCADIA FOUNDATION ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$657k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$477k
Net assets
$2.3M
8/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Historic Trappe does

Mission

Historic Trappe's mission is to preserve and share the historic places, landscapes, and heritage of southeastern pennsylvania.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Historic Trappe's mission is to preserve and share the historic places, landscapes, and heritage of southeastern pennsylvania.

    $394,474 spent$60,403 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $394,474.

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 ($129k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($632k)2018 Revenue 58 ($74k) Expenses 181 ($69k) Net assets 101 ($637k)2019 Revenue 369 ($475k) Expenses 268 ($103k) Net assets 160 ($1.0M)2020 Revenue 59 ($76k) Expenses 392 ($150k) Net assets 364 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 132 ($170k) Expenses 380 ($146k) Net assets 375 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue -176 ($-226797) Expenses 640 ($246k) Net assets 292 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 452 ($582k) Expenses 788 ($302k) Net assets 340 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 511 ($657k) Expenses 1308 ($502k) Net assets 368 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (511)Expenses (1308)Net assets (368)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $2.4M (+138%).

$632k
$637k
$1.0M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$2.8M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 31% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of HISTORIC TRAPPE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$90k
’17
$5k
’18
$372k
’19
−$74k
’20
$25k
’21
−$472k
’22
$280k
’23
$156k
’24
4.1
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1418191915181825
Joined·+8+1+2+4+4+0+11
No longer listed·4028104
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $39k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 TRAPPE’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 TRAPPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 TRAPPE.

31%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2020 39% · 2021 70% · 2022 79% · 2023 34% — 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

80% of HISTORIC TRAPPE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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

70% of HISTORIC TRAPPE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
DC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $168k 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 TRAPPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)26% · top quartile

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

Government funding HISTORIC TRAPPE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record.

Federal$93k
grants $93kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$68k
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$25k

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 TRAPPE

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC TRAPPE: 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 TRAPPE?
HISTORIC TRAPPE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,634 to it, the largest being THE ARCADIA FOUNDATION ($150,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HISTORIC TRAPPE have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $476,634 in grants to HISTORIC TRAPPE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC TRAPPE?
THE ARCADIA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC TRAPPE 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 17 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