Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET
HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,018 to it, the largest being MANSFIELD AUXILIARY CORPORATION ($56,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $283k
What History Center on Main Street does
Mission
Historic Preservation, education, enhance interest in community participation and pride. Creation and publication of original research on our local history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Publication of quarterly journal highlighting events, people, infrastructure in our local area. The objective is to increase awareness of our community development and memorialize those who have contributed to it. The content involves extensive original research.
$2,800 spent41% of program spendingGenealogy and history website of 20,000 pages serves tens of thousands who use it from all over the country and the world. It collects unique materials from many submitters to make otherwise rare material available to all. www.joycetice.com/histcent83.htm
$3,000 spent44% of program spendingCommunity based genealogy research to build a database of the community's past and present. Also, assistance to other researchers and availability of research materials and resources. The goal is to create as complete a resource as possible of the changing population of our geographic ares.
$1,000 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,800.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $98k to $206k (+110%).
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.
98% of HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $725 → $5k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET’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
HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 58% · 2020 55% · 2021 96% · 2022 95% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $382 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,713 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET
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.
Public support
48%
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 HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET: 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 HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET?
- HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,018 to it, the largest being MANSFIELD AUXILIARY CORPORATION ($56,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $80,018 in grants to HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET?
- MANSFIELD AUXILIARY CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $56,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORY CENTER ON MAIN STREET 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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