Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,744,407 to it, the largest being THE ALAN AND JILL MILLER FOUNDATION ($1,781,220). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 150
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $173M
What Museum of the American Revolution does
Mission
The Museum of the American Revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in equality and self-government.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024-2025, the museum continued to expand its reach and impact in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence in 2026. The museum delivered an innovative and engaging variety of mission-driven programs both onsite and online, including special exhibitions, living history events, public lectures, and family activities. For the fiscal year ended september 30, 2025, the museum welcomed 170,556 visitors, including 43,313 students and chaperones from 26 u.s. States, as well as france and germany. The museum kicked off its celebration of america's semiquincentennial with a special exhibition, banners of liberty: an exhibition of original revolutionary war flags. The exhibition brought together 17 original flags from the revolutionary era of the roughly 30 known to still survive today, making it the largest gathering of such flags since 1783, and was viewed by more than 33,000 visitors during its brief run. This year, 1,110,887 users visited our website, amrevmuseum.org, to plan their visit and explore our educational resources, including "proof of service", a new online interactive featuring rare original wartime papers to illustrate what…
$12,880,358 spent$3,286,084 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,880,358.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $142M to $172M (+21%).
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 6% · 2021 18% · 2022 4% · 2023 6% · 2024 1% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Robert Scott Stephenson
President and CEO
Board chair
Morris W Offit
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 30 funders to 68 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.2M.
12 of 150 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 150 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 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 funders to its left
28% 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 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 32% · 2019 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 55% · 2023 12% — 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
43% of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION's revenue fell 69% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$2.8M
- National Archives and Records Administration$500k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$438k
- Department of the Interior$160k
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 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
33%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 38 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: 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 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION?
- MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 150 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,744,407 to it, the largest being THE ALAN AND JILL MILLER FOUNDATION ($1,781,220). 92 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION have?
- IRS filings report 150 organizations giving $15,744,407 in grants to MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 92 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION?
- THE ALAN AND JILL MILLER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,781,220 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 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 150 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