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WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,742,190 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,000,000). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 239
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History does
Mission
The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. Its purpose is to connect jews more closely to their heritage and to inspire in people of all backgrounds a greater appreciation for the diversity of the american jewish experience and the freedoms to which americans aspire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Exhibition:the weitzman welcomed nearly 43,850 visitors to its exhibitions in fy25. In addition to the museum's core exhibition detailing 350 years of american jewish history and continuation of a special exhibition, from telegram to hyperlink, celebrating the work of the shneiderman family, prominent journalists eileen and s.l. Shneiderman, legendary photojournalist david seymour, and computer scientist ben shneiderman. By special invitation from pennsylvania governor josh shapiro, the museum hosted the moment the music stood still: the nova music festival exhibition pop-up for the first anniversary of the october 7 massacre. Through immersive stories of festival-goers, multimedia presentations, and powerful artifacts, over the course of one week 4,154 visitors bore witness and heard the call to action embraced by survivors: "we will dance again." public programs:in partnership with over 20 local and national organizations, the weitzman staged 71 programs (up from around 50 in the previous year) presenting essential jewish thought and culture leaders. The programs attracted over 12,000 attendees in person and online up roughly 20% from the previous year's number (around 10,000).…
$5,708,146 spent$1,268,101 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,708,146.
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 2021 to 2022, from $83M to $29M (−65%).
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 6% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 1% · 2021 8% · 2023 0% · 2024 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 73 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $2.6M.
12 of 239 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from 19 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY raised.
From the IRS filings of WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 239 funders by total. 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
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 26% · 2019 19% · 2020 15% · 2021 23% · 2022 25% · 2023 20% — 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
33% of WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY is better cushioned than half of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $509k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$350k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$159k
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 WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: 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 WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY?
- WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 239 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,742,190 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($5,000,000). 117 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY have?
- IRS filings report 239 organizations giving $22,742,190 in grants to WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY, 117 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY 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 239 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing