Minnesota · Nonprofit
ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,602 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($37,962). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $284k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $87k
- Net assets
- $632k
What Anoka County Historical Society does
Mission
Our mission is to gather, preserve and share the stories of all the people and communities that are part of anoka county. Values statement: the Anoka County Historical Society is an inclusive organization accountable for presenting and celebrating both the told and untold stories of anoka county. We invite people to join us on this journey to ignite curiosity about the past and to understand our shared experiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
New programs achs introduced in 2023 include updated cemetery tours and a creative writing curriculum for middle school. The cemetery tours received a face-lift from their original state, created 20 years ago. New research added interesting content for guests, and spring placement on the calendar assured no cross-over with the ghosts of anoka walking tour, which is popular in the fall. Metro north tv recorded the glen cary tour, which is now available on youtube and the achs website. Not only will this stand as documentation for the future, but we will soon move the program to a pay- per-view option to create income for the museum. The second new program achs added in 2023 comes in partnership with the anoka middle school for the arts. Working with their staff to adapt our james groat civil war diary program for the classroom, students spent four weeks with the material. First, they read portions of the book and discussed how it related to their sixth-grade civil war unit. Then they looked for the unnamed character in the diary, working to imagine their experience within a hsitorical context. Next, the students wrote a character sketch and finally a story about that character. Achs spent time in the classroom for this and produced a podcast episode. The project culminated in a presentation at the minnesota alliance of state and local history museums.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Anoka County Historical Society gathers community stories to create a common memory of anoka county's experiences. Often, this is accomplished through residents bringing in family items unsolicited and sharing the story associated with the items. Sometimes, those items and stories feel engaging enough to warrant an oral history recording, podcast episode, newsletter article, or exhibit. Sometimes, achs seeks information and collection items based on an indentified void in the artifact database-- such is the case with the veterans voice project, focused on the most recent veterans serving from the gulf war to the present, the manufacturing project coming up in a few years, or echoes of bravery, a call for the stories of vietnam era families. Achs gathers additional stories during programs, as participants share their experiences and family history. We collect social media posts and comments.
$28,446 spent17% of program spendingPreserving this material means correctly storing collections items in a box, on a tube, or hanging in a fireproof locker. It also means digitizing documents and maps, taking inventory of articles of clothing for damage, photographing 3d items for reference purposes, and maintaining a facility environment conducive to preservation. Getting people excited about the collections requires programming like behind-the-scenes tours and the adopt-an-artifact program. These allow the public, members, and friends to see how the accessioning process occurs, understand the numbering system, and feel more connected to the items achs holds for the public good. The robust volunteer program at achs allows people of all ages and skills to participate in preserving local history. Whether it's scanning images, filing, or data entry, our volunteers bring a sense of communal accomplishment to the museum while giving staff a chance to mentor and guide people interested in public history.
$111,776 spent66% of program spendingSince 2020, we have focused on program and collection accessibility to help researchers and the generally curious outside office hours. This has meant recording conversations for history 21: the podcast, converting films and tapes to digital formats, making digital images of the artifacts, and transcribing manuscripts. We continue to add portions of our collection to the online database, mncollections, available through our website, and add bonus content to history 21: the vault for subscribers. Our work in 2023 was to set the stage for presenting programming from our bookshelf and recording them. This will provide a lower-cost alternative for people to enjoy our programs, acting like on-demand viewing services. Sharing information also entails adding and maintaining content on our website, anokacountyhistory.org. In addition to the podcast, calendar, and digital programs, this also means creating online exhibits, blogs, and links to news clips. Views on our website reached 40,000 people in 2023. The collection of achs is also shared with the public through fulfilling research requests, which totalled 622 in 2023. Social media has provided a mechanism to share the joys of our…
$28,446 spent$41,879 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $168,668.
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 $829k to $718k (−13%).
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 65% · 2018 59% · 2019 59% · 2020 59% · 2021 69% · 2022 57% · 2023 58% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.
1 of 7 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 ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 33% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 90% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140 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
ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $86,602 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($37,962). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $86,602 in grants to ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $37,962 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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