Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC
MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,502 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($65,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $604k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to educate, inspire and witness to the church and community by collecting, preserving and sharing the anabaptist/mennonite story.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibits at the mennonite heritage center depict mennonite faith and culture from over three hundred years in southeastern pennsylvania communities. Exhibits from april 2024 through march 2025 included: "peace & plenty: life in the perkiomen valley", " mennonite faith and life?", and a display on the fraktur gallery.
$160,480 spent63% of program spendingThe mennonite heritage center houses museum, library and archival collections. The museum collection consists of textiles, ceramics, earthenware, fraktur, furniture, glassware, household, utensils, musical instruments, paintings, photographs and tools. The library collection consists of books and periodicals about mennonite culture, history and theology pertaining to local church and community history, as well as pennsylvania german materials, family bibles, hymnals, maps, broadsides, charts, prints, songbooks and audio and visual recordings. The archival collection consists of materials such as congregation and conference records and personal, family or business papers such as account books, diaries, letters and other manuscripts. The collections are available to the public through exhibits and to individual researchers.
$83,965 spent$4,588 earned by the program33% of program spendingThe mennonite heritage center conducts programs, workshops and events to engage the community. Events from april 2024 through march 2025 included the harleysville hank groundhog day extravaganza, the whack and roll croquet tournament for community nonprofit organizations, used book sale, apple butter frolic, and december craft sale. Workshops included sgraffito pottery, fraktur drawing and lettering,and traditional woodworking. Blogs and posts continued to help share our story. Programs included: hearing about the lenape, church of the brethern history, fraktur research, hymn sings, women in mhc's collections, as well as plain meetinghouses and q new deal for quilts book events.
$11,120 spent$22,872 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,565.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.1M (+26%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 16% · 2022 9% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $13k → $11k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC’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
MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 90% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC'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 $400 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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.
Against its field
MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Pennsylvania
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 1 related entity
- Mhep Properties · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,502 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($65,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $96,502 in grants to MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $65,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MENNONITE HISTORIANS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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