Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC
PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,216 to it, the largest being GLENN & RUTH MENGLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($45,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $121k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $67k
- Net assets
- $530k
What Punxsutawney Weather Center Inc does
Mission
Present the science of weather prediction in a pleasant, enjoyable, and easy to understand manner; educate about the weather to a variety of groups and individuals, ages, and cognitive levels using folklore, history, science, and technology; and enhance the claim of punxsutawney (home of the groundhog) to be the weather capital of the world by operating a unique, affordable, informative interactive science center for weather education and weather terminology.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Continued a special fund to assist low income schools to be able to visit the weather center and participate in the various exhibits and learning opportunities. Increased programming for boy scouts and girl scouts and continued programming for trail life boys and american heritage girls.
$53,226 spent$30,754 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,226.
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 2023 to 2024, from $506k to $540k (+7%).
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: 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 7% · 2023 11% · 2024 34% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
46% of PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (79% 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.
Board chair
Casey Lellock
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $15k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC’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
PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 85% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 100% · 2023 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 453 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 453 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$14k
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 PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC
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
41% 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 PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC: 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 PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC?
- PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,216 to it, the largest being GLENN & RUTH MENGLE FOUNDATION TRUST ($45,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $67,216 in grants to PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC?
- GLENN & RUTH MENGLE FOUNDATION TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $45,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUNXSUTAWNEY WEATHER CENTER INC 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 6 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