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CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC

CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,911 to it, the largest being FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC ($236,325). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$451k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$740k
Net assets
$3.7M
17/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Cayuga Museum of History & Art Inc does

Mission

The cayuga museum of history and art engages the community to appreciate local history, promotes the arts, and educates individuals about the invention of sound on film through the operation of the museum, case research laboratory, and carriage house theater.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promotes the study and research of history, art and science relating to cayuga county.

    $301,112 spent$14,359 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $301,112.

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 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 76 ($118k) Expenses 102 ($208k) Net assets 86 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 112 ($173k) Expenses 95 ($193k) Net assets 102 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 125 ($193k) Expenses 108 ($219k) Net assets 116 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 246 ($379k) Expenses 111 ($226k) Net assets 142 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 184 ($284k) Expenses 154 ($312k) Net assets 127 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 269 ($415k) Expenses 217 ($441k) Net assets 146 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 874 ($1.3M) Expenses 180 ($366k) Net assets 229 ($3.4M)2025 Revenue 292 ($451k) Expenses 206 ($418k) Net assets 251 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (292)Expenses (206)Net assets (251)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.4M (+56%).

$1.6M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.1M
$1.9M
$2.2M
$3.4M
$3.8M
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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
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 23% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$49k
’17
−$90k
’18
−$20k
’19
−$26k
’20
$153k
’21
−$28k
’22
−$26k
’23
$982k
’24
$33k
’25
3.0
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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Listed181816141414141313
Joined·+0+6+0+3+3+2+2+3
No longer listed·08233233
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $46k → $180k.

4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC’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

CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

31% 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 CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC.

32%
largest funder
49%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 69% · 2019 91% · 2020 35% · 2021 47% · 2022 42% · 2023 28% — 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

56% of CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

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NY
IN
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DC
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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.

Federal$100k
grants $100kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 22%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC?
CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $739,911 to it, the largest being FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC ($236,325). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $739,911 in grants to CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC?
FRED L EMERSON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $236,325 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC find more funders?
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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