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CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM

CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,681 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($81,706). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$263k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
$2.2M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Carson County Square House Museum does

Mission

The mission of the Carson County Square House Museum is to provide the highest possible level of museum experience through the collection, care, exhibition, interpretation , and demonstration of artifacts pertaining to the texas panhandle region.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Collection management - the museum maintains a substantial collection of artifacts which pertain to the local texas panhandle area. Registration and maintenance expenses are necessary to manage and maintain the condition of these items.

    $74,329 spent
    47% of program spending
  2. Education - the museum has various classes for cildren, including summer youth arts and line camp. In addition, tours are available throughout the year to area schools. Upon request, there is a traveling educational program utilizing trunks of historical area artifacts and information.

    $34,215 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Exhibition - the museum conducts tours throughout the year for area schools as well as for other local community groups and private citizens. The museum is open seven days a week for viewing by the general public.

    $48,791 spent
    31% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $157,335.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($181k) Expenses 100 ($209k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 92 ($167k) Expenses 83 ($174k) Net assets 95 ($2.0M)2019 Revenue 126 ($227k) Expenses 96 ($200k) Net assets 102 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 95 ($172k) Expenses 82 ($171k) Net assets 103 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 92 ($166k) Expenses 91 ($190k) Net assets 107 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 117 ($212k) Expenses 95 ($199k) Net assets 99 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 119 ($214k) Expenses 103 ($216k) Net assets 105 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 146 ($263k) Expenses 109 ($228k) Net assets 107 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (146)Expenses (109)Net assets (107)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $2.1M (+8%).

$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 21% · 2019 19% · 2020 24% · 2021 41% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$28k
’17
−$7k
’18
$27k
’19
$1k
’20
−$23k
’21
$13k
’22
−$2k
’23
$35k
’24
13
months of
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.

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Listed1818202016171718
Joined·+1+3+0+1+4+0+2
No longer listed·1105301
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $11k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
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3

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM’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

CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99% 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 CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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

99% of CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $975 that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.

TX
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve13.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 22%Fundraising 8%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

65%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM?
CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,681 to it, the largest being AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC ($81,706). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $82,681 in grants to CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM?
AMARILLO AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $81,706 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CARSON COUNTY SQUARE HOUSE MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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