Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,022,161 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($8,647,500). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 137
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $195M
What National Constitution Center does
Mission
The National Constitution Center is America's leading platform for nonpartisan constitutional education and civil dialogue. We bring together people of all ages and perspectives, across America and around the world, to learn about, debate, and celebrate the greatest vision of human freedom in history, the U.S. Constitution. The Center fulfills its congressional charter "to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis in order to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum-Based Education and Civic Celebration The National Constitution Center operates a public museum and educational facility in Philadelphia dedicated to the U.S. Constitution and inspiring a lifelong commitment to civic learning through interactive exhibits, artifacts, and live performances. During the reporting period, the Center welcomed more than 132,000 in-person visitors, with students and school groups comprising more than 60% of attendance. The Center offered onsite educational activities, including interactive learning experiences focused on Supreme Court cases, separation of powers, and historical storytelling. More than 4,400 student visits were supported through the Center's Young Citizens Scholarship Program for low-income students and schools. The Center hosted free public programs, sensory-friendly days, and civic holiday celebrations throughout the year, including Constitution Day, which engaged nearly 8,000 participants in person and virtually and included educational programming and a naturalization ceremony for new citizens. The Center also continued development of new permanent exhibitions on the American founding and the separation of powers, scheduled to…
$10,620,356 spent$3,274,678 earned by the program49% of program spendingCivic Learning and Education The National Constitution Center advanced public understanding of America's founding documents and principles through nonpartisan educational programs serving students, educators, and the general public nationwide. During the reporting period, the Center reached more than 5.4 million students and engaged over 87,000 educators through online courses, classroom resources, and professional learning programs. In 2025, the Center also launched the America at 250 Civic Toolkit, an online educational platform providing multimedia resources, lesson materials, and activities related to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Toolkit is anchored by the Interactive Declaration of Independence, which offers expert annotations, essays, audio narration, and original document images to support civic learning. Since launch, the Toolkit has generated more than 150,000 visits, and the Center's Interactive Constitution has received more than 100 million visits since inception. Virtual student programs, including live Scholar Exchanges and artifact-based learning sessions, engaged students from across the country. The Center also expanded professional…
$7,983,862 spent$2,243 earned by the program37% of program spendingPublic Dialogue and Civic Debate The Center provided a national forum for civil discourse and constitutional debate through public programs, digital media, and community engagement initiatives. During the year, the Center hosted more than 80 in-person and virtual convenings, including its America's Town Hall series, which featured discussions among scholars, judges, journalists, and public leaders representing diverse viewpoints on constitutional issues of public importance. These programs reached audiences both onsite and online, with average virtual attendance exceeding 750 participants per event. The Center produced and distributed nonpartisan podcasts and digital content focused on constitutional interpretation and current events, including the weekly We the People podcast and a special limited series on civic virtue. These programs collectively generated more than 800,000 annual podcast listens and reached millions of users through the Center's website, YouTube channel, and social media platforms. In addition, the Center's leadership and invited speakers participated in community conversations at universities, cultural institutions, and civic organizations across the United…
$2,857,799 spent$299,000 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,462,017.
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 2024 to 2025, from $178M to $199M (+11%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 25% · 2022 6% · 2023 10% · 2024 6% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
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
Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 67 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $5.2M.
20 of 137 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Emmet Family Charitable Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 137 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
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
35% 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 NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 26% · 2021 34% · 2022 22% · 2023 30% — 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
52% of NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record — $1.7M federal, $9k state.
- Department of Education$1.1M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$690k
- NJ$6k
- DE$3k
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 NATIONAL CONSTITUTION 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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CONSTITUTION 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 NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER?
- NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 137 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,022,161 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION ($8,647,500). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 137 organizations giving $62,022,161 in grants to NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER?
- DOUGLAS & MARIA DEVOS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,647,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CONSTITUTION 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 137 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