Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES
LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,646 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($67,931). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $712k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $202k
- Net assets
- $290k
What Landis Valley Associates does
Mission
Landis Valley Associates supports the landis valley village and farm museum, a living history museum which collects, preserves, and interprets the history and material culture of the pennsylvania germans of the period 1740-1940.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Landis Valley Associates (lva) provides educational programs and special events for the landis valley village and farm museum. The educational programs consist of interpretive components for school groups of different grade levels and include experiential components and educational materials tied to curriculum requirements. The lva also sponsors special events and programs throughout the year for the public. The two largest events include "herb and garden faire" in may and "harvest days" in october. Other special events include charter day; talks, lectures and craft classes; adult learning programs/ the institute at landis valley; bonfire holiday program and other events.
$173,615 spent$173,514 earned by the program58% of program spendingThe lva provides crafts people and interpreters to man the historic and exhibition buildings at the landis valley village and farm museum which is one of the largest open air museums in the northeast. The museum consists of 100 acres and 50 structures which include historic structures from the 19th century. Crafts people and interpreters man the museum five days per week from april through december; other forms of interpretation are utilized four days per week from january through march. The lva also provides other interpretive and museum support including helping to fund changing exhibits, upgrading labels and graphics in exhibit galleries and funding reproduction garb and costuming.
$22,070 spent$91,400 earned by the program7% of program spendingThe lva funds the farm program at the landis valley village and farm museum which includes keeping various breeds of historic livestock such as draft horses, sheep, and fowl. The farm program also includes the "heirloom seed project" which involves planting and harvesting seeds of non-hybridized heirloom varieties of vegetables and small grains. The museum maintains period gardens and fields as part of the museum experience and sells the harvested seeds to the public and to other museums.
$101,801 spent$11,064 earned by the program34% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,486.
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 2019 to 2020, from $349k to $235k (−32%).
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: 2021 26% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $56k → $37k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES’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
LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 89% · 2019 100% · 2020 73% · 2021 99% · 2022 62% · 2023 81% — 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
59% of LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES'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 $83k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES?
- LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,646 to it, the largest being LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($67,931). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $201,646 in grants to LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES?
- LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $67,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LANDIS VALLEY ASSOCIATES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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