Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Norristown Hospitality Center
Norristown Hospitality Center (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,700 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($68,871). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $833k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $499k
- Net assets
- $528k
What Norristown Hospitality Center does
Mission
Motivated by God's love, the center provides basic needs and social services to empower those experiencing homelessness and poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Beginning as Norristown Ministries, Inc., a group of inter-faith religious leaders launched several distinct services between 1982 and 1990 to address the needs of economically marginalized neighbors. The 1992 closure of Norristown State Hospital spurred Norristown Ministries to establish a day center for those individuals made homeless by the closure. While the initial programs of Norristown Ministries continue to operate today, Norristown Hospitality Center has flourished since its 1992 establishment as an independent non-profit that today serves over 1,200 people annually, providing stabilizing services and supports for Norristown's most vulnerable neighbors those experiencing poverty, hunger, and homelessness.As a critical partner in the county's social safety net, we remain guided by our mission to provide basic needs and social services to empower those experiencing homelessness and poverty. We envision a world where all people live self-sufficiently with dignity and respect. Our overall goal is to improve health and wellness outcomes for housing and food insecure Montgomery County residents, and advance their stability and self-sufficiency goals.Operating as a Drop-in Day…
$589,627 spent$6,997 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $589,627.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $469k to $690k (+47%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 24% · 2023 44% · 2024 19% · 2025 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Norristown Hospitality Center’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $21k → $65k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Norristown Hospitality Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
Norristown Hospitality 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
73% 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 Norristown Hospitality Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 32% · 2022 71% · 2023 54% — 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
0% of Norristown Hospitality Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
55% of Norristown Hospitality Center'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 $224k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Norristown Hospitality Center runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,334 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,334 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Norristown Hospitality 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Norristown Hospitality 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 Norristown Hospitality Center?
- Norristown Hospitality Center (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $498,700 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($68,871). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Norristown Hospitality Center have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $498,700 in grants to Norristown Hospitality Center, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Norristown Hospitality Center?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $68,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Norristown Hospitality 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 27 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