INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM

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2024 · Form 990 · revenue $3.3M · expenses $6.4M · assets $19.5M

EIN

23-1584971

Address

211 S COLUMBUS BLVD, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106-3101

Website

www.phillyseaport.org

NTEE code

A500

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (trust)

Ruling date

April 1961 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

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Mission

TO DISCOVER PHILADELPHIA'S RIVER OF HISTORY AND WORLD OF CONNECTIONS. SERVING A WIDE AND DIVERSE AUDIENCE AND HOLDING ITS COLLECTIONS IN TRUST FOR THE COMMUNITY, THE MUSEUM TELLS THE STORIES OF THE PEOPLE, HISTORICAL EVENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES OF THE DELAWARE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. IT LOOKS TO A BROAD REGIONAL DEFINITION OF THE RIVER TO INCLUDE BOTH PHILADELPHIA AND CAMDEN AS WELL AS PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN COAST OF NEW JERSEY AND THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER DRAINAGE. THE MUSEUM IS THE LEADING EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION IN THE REGION DEDICATED TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE DELAWARE RIVER AND ITS ESTUARIES. WE FOCUS UPON BUILDING K-16 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT ENGAE STUDENTS IN THE RICH HISTORY OF THIS REGION AS IT RELATES TO THE WATERWAYS IN ADDTION TO PROVIDNG STEM AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. OUR EDUCATIONAL MISSION IS TO BUILD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPORTANCE OF THE DELAWARE RIVER WATERSHED. THE MUSEUM RETAINS A NATIONA

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

13 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

72 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• Flagship Olympia Foundation Philadelphia, PA · 1 person in common (Peter Seibert)

Funders of this organization

50 grantors reported grants to this organization, $2,667,629 in all, tax years 2009 to 2025; the 25 largest shown (all 50). Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.