New Jersey · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC
MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,331 to it, the largest being Children's Foundation of the Oranges ($101,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $276k
- Net assets
- $13M
What Museum of Early Trades and Crafts Inc does
Mission
To foster the understanding, cultivation, and appreciation of america's past by presenting and interpreting the history, culture and lives of the inhabitants of new jersey from its earliest settlement to the present day.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The primary activity of the museum is history education. We develop and deliver curriculum-based programs to students throughout the state of new jersey and provide additional programs, lectures, and workshops for a wide range of visitors. All educational programs are mission based, interactive and intended to provide free-choice learning. Each year we create and install changing exhibits in our main gallery and annex, and we maintain two levels of permanent exhibits that reflect life in new jersey from the early 1700s through the industrial era representing the diversity of the state of new jersey. The staff manages a collection of over 8,000 objects and archives that represent the material culture of the people of new jersey and we are actively involved in the historic preservation of our museum building. All programs and exhibits support the mission of the museum.
$686,895 spent$103,244 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $686,895.
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 2021 to 2022, from $13M to $12M (−13%).
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 8% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 72% · 2024 15% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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
Deborah Farrar Starker
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $1k → $29k.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% 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 MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 95% · 2019 51% · 2020 54% · 2021 28% · 2022 34% · 2023 53% — 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
44% of MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $349k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$349k
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 MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC: 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 MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC?
- MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $276,331 to it, the largest being Children's Foundation of the Oranges ($101,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $276,331 in grants to MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC?
- Children's Foundation of the Oranges is the largest funder on record, with $101,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF EARLY TRADES AND CRAFTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 17 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