Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,152 to it, the largest being HOUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $406k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $49k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Lebanon County Historical Society does
Mission
Preserving local history and conduct activities to encourage and educate individuals about lebanon countys local history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Researching, compiling, assembling, editing, publishing and disseminating books, pamphlets and literature of local historical interests.operation of historic museum and historical site, including purchasing, collecting, restoring, maintaining, protecting and displaying property of historic value and historic subjects.operating a museum store, retailing products of historical or local nature, such as post cards,stationery, historical trinkets and native crafts.organize and implement group tours of local and national historical interest, as well as seminars and conferences of in-depth studies of historically significant objects.
$493,980 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $493,980.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+46%).
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 5% · 2018 47% · 2019 5% · 2020 17% · 2022 5% · 2023 7% · 2024 13% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Jeffrey Firestone
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $35.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 98% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
73% of LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,152 to it, the largest being HOUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $49,152 in grants to LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HOUSER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEBANON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 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