California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,397,125 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($1,130,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What California Indian Museum & Cultural Center does
Mission
The california indian museum and cultural center was founded in 1996 with the purpose of educating the public about the history, culture, and contemporary life of california indians and to honor their contributions to civilization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Education program utilizes the organization webpage and social media to inform the public of museum events, performances, new exhibits, and lectures. Education program also develops on-going distance learning and outreach to youth organizations in the surrounding communities to provide pomo language preservation events, filming and gathering oral histories. The education program produces educational products for public k-12, youth and educators and american indians. Products include, but are not limited to website, lectures, presentation curricula distance learning, digital videos and audio resources. Community resilience programs provide direct services to california tribal communities during crisis, and traditional food sovereignty including research and resources for tribal traditional food producers. 592 youths were served by the museum during 2024.
$2,174,382 spent$13,573 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,174,382.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $3.6M (+70%).
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 101% · 2018 45% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 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 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $54k → $1.4M.
7 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
80% 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 CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 29% · 2019 31% · 2020 21% · 2021 33% · 2022 22% · 2023 22% — 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.
How long its funders stay
44% of CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Small Business Administration$1.0M
- Department of Commerce$166k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$47k
- Department of Agriculture$15k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: 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 CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (California) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,397,125 to it, the largest being RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC ($1,130,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $5,397,125 in grants to CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- RSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 42 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