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KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES

KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,800 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$76k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$149k
Net assets
$47k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Keystones Oral Histories does

Mission

Education

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Creation of york county pa african american military experiences from civil war to today documentary and k-12 curriculum followed by a hall of fame induction program.

    $54,043 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,043.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($50k)2021 Revenue 96 ($59k) Expenses 426 ($61k) Net assets 58 ($29k)2022 Revenue 96 ($59k) Expenses 359 ($51k) Net assets 74 ($37k)2023 Revenue 90 ($56k) Expenses 234 ($33k) Net assets 118 ($59k)2024 Revenue 123 ($76k) Expenses 614 ($87k) Net assets 95 ($47k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (123)Expenses (614)Net assets (95)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 2022 to 2023, from $39k to $62k (+60%).

$50k
$29k
$39k
$62k
$52k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’20
−$1k
’21
$8k
’22
$22k
’23
−$12k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $40k → $50k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES’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

KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

87% 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 KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES.

67%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 50% · 2023 100% — 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

100% of KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

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

’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES has grown faster than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

98%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES?
KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,800 to it, the largest being Pennsylvania Humanities Council ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $148,800 in grants to KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES?
Pennsylvania Humanities Council is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEYSTONES ORAL HISTORIES 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 2020–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing