Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER
MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,637,588 to it, the largest being PA IRC NETWORK FOUNDATION ($5,843,444). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Manufacturers Resource Center does
Mission
Manufacturers Resource Center (the center) is a public/private economic development organization operating an industrial resource center under the pennsylvania manufacturing industrial resource center program. The center provides consulting, training and technology resources, primarily to small and medium sized manufacturers, to enhance their ability to successfully compete in the global marketplace. In addition, the center works with its other economic development partners to encourage regional coordination of economic development efforts and a comprehensive, efficient, economic development delivery strategy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Mrc conducts technical and managerial consulting and training engagements using internal staff and private consultants. Clients are surveyed 1 to 3 years later by an independent organization to determine the economic benefits derived. During the period july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025, the center engaged in 59 substantive projects with 38 companies and conducted 61 workshops or events with 1,173 participants. During the same period, 93 companies reported $58 million (unaudited) total economic impact, as a result of the center's assistance.
$3,784,564 spent$2,354,899 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,784,564.
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 $3.0M to $4.0M (+30%).
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 59% · 2018 46% · 2019 52% · 2020 62% · 2021 57% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% · 2024 39% · 2025 35%. 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.
Chief executive
Richard Hobbs
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $795k → $768k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER’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
MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
96% 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 MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 87% · 2019 99% · 2020 97% · 2021 95% · 2022 86% · 2023 84% — 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
43% of MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
99% of MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k 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.
Organizations like MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Lehigh University · exempt
- Ben Franklin Technologies Partners Ne Pa · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER: 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 MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER?
- MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,637,588 to it, the largest being PA IRC NETWORK FOUNDATION ($5,843,444). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $6,637,588 in grants to MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER?
- PA IRC NETWORK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,843,444 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANUFACTURERS RESOURCE CENTER 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 16 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