Delaware · Nonprofit
THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC
THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($120). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $120
- Net assets
- $401k
What The Arden Craft Shop Museum Inc does
Mission
The ardens, the collective name for the villages of arden, ardentown, and ardencroft, is one of the oldest non-religious intentional communities in the united states and the only entire village to be placed on the national historic register. The arden craft shop museum preserves the ardens' rich history through the documentation of residents' creative work and activities past and present. The museum collection includes paintings, photographs, textiles, ceramics, prints, furniture and ironwork. Archival material in the collection documents architectural, theatrical, musical, dance, and literary contributions by arden residents, as well as photographs of artwork that no longer survives or is dispersed in private collections. The primary activities of the museum are to preserve the existing collection and acquire new material that relates to the history of the ardens, create related exhibitions and public programs, and provide support for scholarly research on the communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To maintain a museum which preserves the complex history of the three ardens (arden, ardentown and ardencroft); and displays and cares for the historic collections and works of art by local artisans from the 1900's to the present.
$29,768 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,768.
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 2020 to 2021, from $461k to $434k (−6%).
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: 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $38 → $23.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC?
- THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC (Delaware) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($120). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $120 in grants to THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARDEN CRAFT SHOP MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 1 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