Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION
NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,212,444 to it, the largest being HUTCHINSON SERENA M FBO NORTH MUSEUM ($429,697). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $844k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What North Museum Corporation does
Mission
To inspire curiosity, discovery, and lifelong appreciation of nature, science, and cultures through educational exhibits, collections, and programs
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The north museum includes a planetarium, dynamic exhibits, and a vast collection of archeological, ethnographic, zoological, geological, paleontological, botanical, and reptilian specimens, plus a live-animal room, and a glass-enclosed active beehive. Educational programming is provided both within and outside of the north museum facility. The north museum science and engineering fair is affiliated with the international science and engineering fair. Winners from the north museum science and engineering fair go on to compete at the isef, the world's largest international pre-college science competition in school stem career fairs designed to introduce fifth- through eighth-grade students to stem careers through hands-on activities with equipment and the guidance of stem professionals who serve as mentors during the school year. The north museum provides stem career fairs to students at various schools. Stem sisters is a free program designed for girls in grades six through twelve, offering rational career exploration and mentorship opportunities that encourage and empower young women. This program has nearly tripled since its inception. Stem after-school workshops are a…
$820,752 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $820,752.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.3M to $3.6M (−16%).
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 45% · 2018 2% · 2019 5% · 2021 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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
Andrea Rush
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income rose $140k → $203k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 31% · 2019 40% · 2020 34% · 2021 59% · 2022 52% · 2023 46% — 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
50% of NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
92% of NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $240k 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
NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,179 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION?
- NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,212,444 to it, the largest being HUTCHINSON SERENA M FBO NORTH MUSEUM ($429,697). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,212,444 in grants to NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION?
- HUTCHINSON SERENA M FBO NORTH MUSEUM is the largest funder on record, with $429,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH MUSEUM CORPORATION 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 21 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