Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,007 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($67,478). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $332k
What Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation does
Mission
To restore, preserve and maintain the national historic civil war properties, architecture and other legacies related to seminary ridge at gettysburg, pennsylvania, and to provide related education and communication of the foregoing for the benefit of the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Since 2013, Seminary Ridge Historic Preservation Foundation (srhpf) has operated seminary ridge museum (museum) within the historic 1832 lutheran seminary building, witness to the first day of the battle of gettysburg. The museum features 20,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, a classroom with distance-learning capabilities, and space for supporting activities. Related programming engages visitors and participants in various educational offerings with the issues of the civil war era and its effects on contemporary society. In 2020, the museum rebranded as seminary ridge museum and education center (srmec) to emphasize its commitment to education.
$484,576 spent$325,634 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $484,576.
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 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $270k (−98%).
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 15% · 2018 3% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 19% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Emried D Cole Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.
7 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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
SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
88% 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 SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 86% · 2020 45% · 2021 56% · 2022 58% · 2023 50% — 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
20% of SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 18% 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
86% of SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION'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 $34k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$69k
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 SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- United Lutheran Seminary · exempt
- The Luther Institute · exempt
- United Lutheran Seminary Endowment Foundation · exempt
- Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION?
- SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,007 to it, the largest being ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($67,478). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $253,007 in grants to SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION?
- ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $67,478 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEMINARY RIDGE HISTORIC PRESERVATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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