Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD
MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,735,035 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($2,405,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocal
- Leighton a Rosenthal Family Foundationportfolio match
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio match
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.
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 25% · 2018 10% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 11% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% · 2024 15% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $114k → $560k.
5 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $1.6M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Pittsburgh Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD raised.
From the IRS filings of MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 71%; 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: 2017 70% · 2018 66% · 2019 85% · 2020 55% · 2021 81% · 2022 77% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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 CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $405k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Benter Foundationshared funderslocalPA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders · funds 83 organizations near you
- Leighton a Rosenthal Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edwin Caplin Foundation 104786-000portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rapaport Shallat Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Netherland-America Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bradley Family Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ns Goldstein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis Armstrong Educational Foundatportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Joyce & George Wein Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cheswatyr Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $140k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$140k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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 Bidwell Corporation · exempt
- Harbor Gardens Park Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD?
- MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,735,035 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($2,405,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $5,735,035 in grants to MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD?
- HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $2,405,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD 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 39funders 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing