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MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION

MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,204 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($47,254). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$318k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$114k
Net assets
$589k
6/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Millersburg Ferry Boat Association does

Mission

Operation and maintenance of historic sternwheel ferry on the susquehanna river maintenance of the ferry wall in the river

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operation of the ferry maintain ferry wall

    $139,931 spent$318,413 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $139,931.

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 ($104k) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2018 Revenue 103 ($107k) Expenses 99 ($84k) Net assets 136 ($89k)2019 Revenue 84 ($87k) Expenses 92 ($78k) Net assets 151 ($99k)2020 Revenue 116 ($121k) Expenses 143 ($121k) Net assets 151 ($99k)2021 Revenue 68 ($71k) Expenses 96 ($81k) Net assets 136 ($89k)2022 Revenue 396 ($413k) Expenses 168 ($142k) Net assets 550 ($360k)2023 Revenue 194 ($203k) Expenses 240 ($203k) Net assets 549 ($360k)2024 Revenue 246 ($257k) Expenses 246 ($208k) Net assets 641 ($420k)2025 Revenue 305 ($318k) Expenses 200 ($169k) Net assets 898 ($589k)
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Revenue (305)Expenses (200)Net assets (898)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 2021 to 2022, from $90k to $361k (+303%).

$66k
$90k
$100k
$100k
$90k
$361k
$361k
$421k
$589k
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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 14% · 2024 15% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’17
$24k
’18
$10k
’19
$93
’20
−$10k
’21
$271k
’22
−$344
’23
$49k
’24
$149k
’25
15
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.

2022202320242025
Listed4799
Joined·+3+3+0
No longer listed·010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $6k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION’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

MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

58% 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 MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION.

41%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 71% · 2020 47% · 2021 53% · 2022 66% · 2023 73% — 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

50% of MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

58% of MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION'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 $48k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

NY
PA
FL

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin47% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 17%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION?
MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,204 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES ($47,254). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $114,204 in grants to MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION?
THE FOUNDATION FOR ENHANCING COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $47,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MILLERSBURG FERRY BOAT ASSOCIATION 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 10 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