Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE
JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,717 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($25,444). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $661k
What Johnson House Historic Site does
Mission
The Johnson House Historic Site, a Center for Civil and Social Advocacy, is a historic house museum that represents what everyday people have done and can do to make a
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Created and promoted access to school students and adults educating them to the history of one of the documented stops on the underground railroad during the era of slavery in the USA Sponsered Juneteenth celebration
$83,811 spent$112,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $83,811.
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.
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 $508k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 42% · 2018 39% · 2019 62% · 2020 89% · 2021 15% · 2022 68% · 2023 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Cornelia Swinson
Executive director
Board chair
Patrica Bass
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $13k → $15k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE’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
JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 65% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE: 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 JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE?
- JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,717 to it, the largest being THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC ($25,444). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $80,717 in grants to JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE?
- THE PHILADELPHIA CULTURAL FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHNSON HOUSE HISTORIC SITE 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 7 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