Wisconsin · Nonprofit
ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,194 to it, the largest being GREGORY C VAN WIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $146k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $497k
What Adams County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
Preserve, Inform, Educate about Adams County History
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Adams County History Preservation: Maintain the 1889 Dr. WE McGowan House & Property, the 1905 Gunning Building, the Niebull School. Maintain Town/County Government Records, Genealogical Records, Other Artifacts & Archival Material. Benefits approx. 21000 people.
$109,864 spent91% of program spendingAdams County Historical Information: Distribute historical information to membership/public through books, newsletters, website, Facebook, emails, newspapers, & other informational programs. Benefits approx. 5000 people.
$8,750 spent7% of program spendingAdams County Historical Museum: Set up and operate a museum at the Heritage Center, McGowan House, Niebull School and the Fair grounds Benefits approximately 21000 people
$2,000 spent2% of program spendingFourth and Fifth Grade Programs: Fourth Grade lives a day in the life of children in the 1890's. What they wore and how they lived and how they attended school. Fifth Grade does a Civil War re-enactment that includes names from Adams County that fought in the Civil War
$200 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $120,814.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $380k to $488k (+28%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Marilyn Baggs
Director/Membership Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $20k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
How concentrated its funding is
ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194 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.
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,194 to it, the largest being GREGORY C VAN WIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($55,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $55,194 in grants to ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- GREGORY C VAN WIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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