Wisconsin · Nonprofit
BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,337 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $789k
What Barron County Historical Society does
Mission
Educational -the objective of this organization is to educate the people of the lives and times of the pioneers as they established themselves in barron county.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Barron County Historical Society is made up of volunteers who spend much time keeping the pioneer village in shape as well as conducting tours of the village. The objective of this organization is to educate the people of the lives and times of the pioneers as they established themselves in barron county. We have two main events that push our objective. In the spring we have over 1600 fourth grade elementary students from the area go through the village under the direction of the volunteers, their teachers, and their parent chaperones. In the summer we have heritage days in which the volunteer dress and bring to life the pioneer village for families to appreciate the lives and times of the pioneers. Volunteers bring their pioneer handiwork skills to the pioneer village as well as local entertainment is provided.
$214,344 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $214,344.
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.
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 $724k to $619k (−14%).
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 20% · 2018 14% · 2019 12% · 2020 32% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $4k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 BARRON 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
BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 65% · 2021 99% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 38% 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
BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,337 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $51,337 in grants to BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BARRON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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