MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A54

Classification

2000

Street

101 S 3RD ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• IN 2024-2025, THE MUSEUM CONTINUED TO EXPAND ITS REACH AND IMPACT IN ANTICIPATION OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN 2026. THE MUSEUM DELIVERED AN INNOVATIVE AND ENGAGING VARIETY OF MISSION-DRIVEN PROGRAMS BOTH ONSITE AND ONLINE, INCLUDING SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS, LIVING HISTORY EVENTS, PUBLIC LECTURES, AND FAMILY ACTIVITIES. FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 2025, THE MUSEUM WELCOMED 170,556 VISITORS, INCLUDING 43,313 STUDENTS AND CHAPERONES FROM 26 U.S. STATES, AS WELL AS FRANCE AND GERMANY. THE MUSEUM KICKED OFF ITS CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL WITH A SPECIAL EXHIBITION, BANNERS OF LIBERTY: AN EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARY WAR FLAGS. THE EXHIBITION BROUGHT TOGETHER 17 ORIGINAL FLAGS FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA OF THE ROUGHLY 30 KNOWN TO STILL SURVIVE TODAY, MAKING IT THE LARGEST GATHERING OF SUCH FLAGS SINCE 1783, AND WAS VIEWED BY MORE THAN 33,000 VISITORS DURING ITS BRIEF RUN. THIS YEAR, 1,110,887 USERS VISITED OUR WEBSITE, AMREVMUSEUM.ORG, TO PLAN THEIR VISIT AND EXPLORE OUR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING "PROOF OF SERVICE", A NEW ONLINE INTERACTIVE FEATURING RARE ORIGINAL WARTIME PAPERS TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE IN THE CONTINENTAL ARMY, AND NEW INSTALLMENTS OF OUR "PENSION PROJECT" VIDEO SERIES. THROUGH THIS WORK, THE MUSEUM CONTINUES TO DEEPEN THE IMPACT OF OUR ONSITE AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING, AND FURTHER OUR EDUCATIONAL MISSION AT A TIME WHEN MANY AMERICANS WILL SPEND TIME CELEBRATING AND REFLECTING ON THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA.

  Expenses $12,880,358 · Revenue $3,286,084

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $14,024,989

  Expenses

  $17,229,580

  Contributions

  $6,996,105

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $33,091,880

  Expenses

  $16,202,592

  Contributions

  $26,297,686

  Grants paid

  $300,000

• 2022

  Revenue

  $9,497,597

  Expenses

  $15,834,319

  Contributions

  $5,047,177

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $38,576,653

  Expenses

  $16,783,108

  Assets (EOY)

  $142,580,288

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $14,346,373

  Expenses

  $14,543,307

  Assets (EOY)

  $136,106,228

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,292,976

  Expenses

  $15,143,660

  Assets (EOY)

  $135,053,426

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $10,424,059

  Expenses

  $17,719,915

  Assets (EOY)

  $141,045,479

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $44,566,598

  Expenses

  $13,638,483

  Assets (EOY)

  $140,923,901

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $39,190,898

  Expenses

  $4,816,243

  Assets (EOY)

  $130,727,387

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $32,179,564

  Expenses

  $2,400,976

  Assets (EOY)

  $57,693,898

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,533,462

  Expenses

  $2,238,652

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,585,333

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,105,595

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,374,530

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $2,123,042

  Assets (EOY)

  $15,659,406

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

• AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

  $100,000

  2023 · THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY COLLABORATIVE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL GRANT

• THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $66,666

  2023 · THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY COLLABORATIVE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL GRANT

• THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA

  $66,666

  2023 · THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY COLLABORATIVE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL GRANT

• HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  $66,666

  2023 · THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY COLLABORATIVE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL GRANT

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $530,250

  2023 · EDUCATION

• PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS

  $275,000

  2024 · Civic Life

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $103,500

  2024 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $44,720

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $40,445

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $30,000

  2022 · CULTURE & ARTS

• JACK MILLER CENTER FOR TEACHING AMERICAS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND

  $30,000

  2022 · HISTORY/GOV'T EDUCAT

• NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

  $30,000

  2024 · GRANT FOR THE PATRIOTS OF COLOR INTERACTIVE DIGITAL DISPLAY

• NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TR

  $30,000

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• PWC FOUNDATION INC

  $25,000

  2022 · EDUCATION

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

• SD&A TELESERVICES INC.

  $9,055 raised

  2024 · Commercial Fundraiser

  -$9,495 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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