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Chisholm Trail Museum Inc

Chisholm Trail Museum Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,130 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($43,091). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$367k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$88k
Net assets
$237k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Chisholm Trail Museum Inc does

Mission

The Chisholm Trail Museum collects, preserves, and shares the histroy and culture of Oklahoma's innovative spirit, commerce, trade, and industry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintenance and Operation of the Chisholm Trail Museum.

    $324,152 spent$366,607 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $324,152.

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 ($67k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($486k)2018 Revenue 290 ($193k) Expenses 147 ($169k) Net assets 105 ($510k)2019 Revenue 324 ($216k) Expenses 172 ($198k) Net assets 109 ($528k)2020 Revenue 330 ($220k) Expenses 197 ($227k) Net assets 54 ($262k)2021 Revenue 417 ($277k) Expenses 202 ($232k) Net assets 61 ($298k)2022 Revenue 463 ($308k) Expenses 282 ($324k) Net assets 58 ($282k)2023 Revenue 498 ($331k) Expenses 263 ($302k) Net assets 64 ($312k)2024 Revenue 458 ($305k) Expenses 367 ($422k) Net assets 40 ($194k)2025 Revenue 551 ($367k) Expenses 282 ($324k) Net assets 49 ($237k)
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Revenue (551)Expenses (282)Net assets (49)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 2019 to 2020, from $531k to $265k (−50%).

$487k
$512k
$531k
$265k
$302k
$288k
$316k
$200k
$237k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 13% · 2021 30% · 2022 11% · 2023 8% · 2024 7% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Chisholm Trail Museum Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$49k
’17
$24k
’18
$18k
’19
−$7k
’20
$45k
’21
−$16k
’22
$29k
’23
−$117k
’24
$42k
’25
7.5
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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Listed121315141515151514
Joined·+3+5+2+1+1+0+1+1
No longer listed·23301012
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $39 → $6k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Chisholm Trail 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

Chisholm Trail Museum Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 Chisholm Trail Museum Inc.

49%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 32% · 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

78% of Chisholm Trail Museum Inc's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.

NE
OK

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Chisholm Trail Museum Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve7.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)24% · top quartile

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

Government funding Chisholm Trail Museum Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.

State$45k
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16
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Top programs
  • Admin Mgmt-Gen.Mgmt Consulting$30k
  • Approved Program Reimbursement$15k
  • Licences, Permits, etc.$287

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 Chisholm Trail 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 Oklahoma

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OK

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Questions and answers

Who funds Chisholm Trail Museum Inc?
Chisholm Trail Museum Inc (Oklahoma) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $88,130 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ($43,091). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Chisholm Trail Museum Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $88,130 in grants to Chisholm Trail Museum Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Chisholm Trail Museum Inc?
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA is the largest funder on record, with $43,091 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Chisholm Trail Museum Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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