California · Nonprofit
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,809 to it, the largest being SCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $198k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $348k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Channel Islands Maritime Museum Inc does
Mission
To preserve and share the wonders of our maritime heritage, highlight our complex interrelationships with the ecology of The Ocean, and showcase peoples creative expressions of everything related to the sea.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the Channel Islands Maritime Museum (CIMM) continued to strengthen its role as a vital cultural and educational institution on Californias Central Coast. The Museum presented an engaging schedule of rotating art exhibitions, community events, and hands-on educational programs that celebrated maritime heritage, art, and science. Signature events such as the Celebration of the Whales festival and Art Comes Alive brought together families, artists, and educators for creative and interactive experiences highlighting the regions maritime traditions and ecology.CIMM expanded its volunteer corps, providing specialized training to develop thoughtful, educational docents who share maritime history and art with thousands of visitors each year. The Museum also hosted a robust speaker series, fostering adult education and providing a platform to explore maritime history, art, and environmental topics. These programs help preserve not only artifacts but the rich stories and historical context that bring them to life.The Museums commitment to accessible learning continued through free admission for children and partnerships with local schools that provide field trip experiences…
$254,848 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $254,848.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.3M to $2.1M (−7%).
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 8% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 20% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Joyce Nelson
Honorary Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $11k → $81k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM 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
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 38% · 2019 47% · 2020 36% · 2021 80% · 2022 64% · 2023 62% — 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
31% of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
45%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC?
- CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,809 to it, the largest being SCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $347,809 in grants to CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC?
- SCHLINGER CHRISMAN FOUNDATION NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY TRUSTEE is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM INC 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 20 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