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MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION

MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,131,546 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,080,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.8M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$8.1M
Net assets
$8.5M
26/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 60%
01What it does

What Manchester Bidwell Corporation does

Mission

See schedule o Manchester Bidwell Corporation (mbc) supports its affiliate nonprofit organizations that deliver workforce training, youth arts education, jazz performances and education. Mbc provides administrative and operational cohesion and resources, which enables its affiliates to operate in a financially sound, strategically aligned and mission driven manner while focusing on high-quality program delivery.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Manchester Bidwell Corporation (mbc) provides support for its affiliates and their programs in areas of governance, administration, finance, development, marketing, communications, and facilities.

    $3,571,537 spentof which $583,245 as grants$3,298,887 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,571,537.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.3M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($3.8M)2018 Revenue 112 ($3.7M) Expenses 104 ($3.8M) Net assets 96 ($3.6M)2019 Revenue 263 ($8.6M) Expenses 105 ($3.8M) Net assets 222 ($8.4M)2020 Revenue 135 ($4.4M) Expenses 122 ($4.5M) Net assets 220 ($8.4M)2021 Revenue 104 ($3.4M) Expenses 103 ($3.8M) Net assets 210 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 163 ($5.3M) Expenses 111 ($4.1M) Net assets 221 ($8.4M)2023 Revenue 179 ($5.9M) Expenses 121 ($4.4M) Net assets 259 ($9.8M)2024 Revenue 125 ($4.1M) Expenses 125 ($4.6M) Net assets 246 ($9.3M)2025 Revenue 117 ($3.8M) Expenses 128 ($4.7M) Net assets 224 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (117)Expenses (128)Net assets (224)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 2018 to 2019, from $4.4M to $9.4M (+114%).

$5.0M
$4.4M
$9.4M
$11M
$9.9M
$9.0M
$11M
$11M
$9.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,093 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$390k
’17
−$145k
’18
$4.8M
’19
−$64k
’20
−$378k
’21
$1.3M
’22
$1.5M
’23
−$487k
’24
−$851k
’25
12
months of
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

Kevin Jenkins

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181820201921191919
Joined·+0+4+5+4+4+4+6+2
No longer listed·02552662
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $30k → $269k.

5 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Manchester Bidwell Development Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION raised.

From the IRS filings of MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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

MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

62%
largest funder
80%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 81% · 2019 97% · 2020 43% · 2021 32% · 2022 46% · 2023 47% — 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.

How long its funders stay

45% of MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
NC
FL

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

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $639k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−22% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION

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.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 16%Fundraising 8%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Bidwell Training Center · exempt
  • National Center for the Arts and Technology · exempt
  • Manchester Bidwell Development Trust · exempt
  • Manchester Craftsmen's Guild · exempt
  • Harbor Gardens Park Inc · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION?
MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,131,546 to it, the largest being RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION ($5,080,000). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $8,131,546 in grants to MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION?
RICHARD KING MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MANCHESTER BIDWELL CORPORATION 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.

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 38 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