Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PROTOHAVEN
PROTOHAVEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,802 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $327k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $748k
- Net assets
- $130k
What Protohaven does
Mission
To service the public good by providing space, tools, knowledge, and community for creation and innovation.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Protohaven conducts classes in design & fabrication skills and events to bring people interested in these skills together. These are lead by staff, volunteer, or contractor experts and are held at its physical facility typically on weekday nights and weekends. Classes provide the "knowledge and events provide "community" for creation and innovation that are part of our exempt purpose. The classes and events are typically held during weekday evenings and weekend days.
$347,515 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $347,515.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $97k to $285k (+194%).
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.
37% of PROTOHAVEN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% 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.
Chief executive
Amber Epps
Executive director
Board chair
Joshua Rolon
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $3k → $186k.
3 of 11 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 PROTOHAVEN’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
PROTOHAVEN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
26% 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 PROTOHAVEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 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
40% of PROTOHAVEN's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% 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
99% of PROTOHAVEN's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PROTOHAVEN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,420 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,420 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like PROTOHAVEN
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROTOHAVEN: 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 PROTOHAVEN?
- PROTOHAVEN (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $747,802 to it, the largest being HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS ($400,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROTOHAVEN have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $747,802 in grants to PROTOHAVEN, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROTOHAVEN?
- HILLMAN FAMILY FOUNDATIONS is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROTOHAVEN 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 FY2022 (financials across 2018–2022), and the filings of 11 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