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PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION

PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,300 to it, the largest being THE WYETH FOUNDATION ($22,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$402k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$25k
Net assets
$3.0M
4/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Primitive Hall Foundation does

Programs

  1. Preservation of historical structures

    $50,962 spent
  2. Fundraising costs/private events

    $5,737 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 97 ($109k) Expenses 93 ($55k) Net assets 98 ($2.2M)2019 Revenue 95 ($107k) Expenses 92 ($54k) Net assets 105 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 82 ($92k) Expenses 57 ($34k) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)2021 Revenue 110 ($124k) Expenses 86 ($50k) Net assets 115 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 84 ($95k) Expenses 98 ($58k) Net assets 113 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 90 ($101k) Expenses 86 ($50k) Net assets 116 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 357 ($402k) Expenses 97 ($57k) Net assets 132 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (357)Expenses (97)Net assets (132)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.6M to $3.1M (+23%).

$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.1M
$3.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $100 → $4k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
3
4
4
3
2

From the IRS filings of PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 59% · 2023 81% — 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.

Where its funders are

90% of PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION: 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 PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION?
PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,300 to it, the largest being THE WYETH FOUNDATION ($22,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,300 in grants to PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION?
THE WYETH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRIMITIVE HALL FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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