Indiana · Nonprofit
BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,609 to it, the largest being LORENZ FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($47,823). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Brown County Historical Society does
Mission
The mission of the Brown County Historical Society is to collect, preserve, and present the history of brown county, indiana.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Brown County Historical Society meetings, historical and genealogical research and archives preservation, and opportunities to present brown countys history.
$7,843 spent$2,023 earned by the program100% of program spendingBrown county historical museum consists of six buildings that have been faithfully preserved and relocated to our museum in beautiful downtown nashville, indiana. It includes the 1879 log jail, the dog trot barn, the 1898 doctors office, the pioneer log cabin, and the 1850s blacksmith shop. The construction of our new brown county history center was completed in 2015. It is adjacent to the pioneer village.
Pioneer womens club practice and teach the domestic frontier crafts: spinning, weaving, knitting, quilting, and basketry to name only a few. The pioneer women also plan and implement demonstrations of pioneer crafts at the museum.
$6,842 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,843.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $6.4M (+21%).
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.
20% of BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $7k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 BROWN 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
BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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
47% 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 BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 75% · 2022 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
100% of BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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
BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BROWN 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
3% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWN 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 BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,609 to it, the largest being LORENZ FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST INC ($47,823). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $90,609 in grants to BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- LORENZ FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $47,823 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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