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CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM

CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,217 to it, the largest being Cecile Clarke Trust FBO Cecile Clarke Memorial Museum ($104,697). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$281k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$224k
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Against its field

CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve3.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($233k) Expenses 100 ($237k) Net assets 100 ($819k)2019 Revenue 119 ($277k) Expenses 84 ($199k) Net assets 110 ($897k)2020 Revenue 58 ($135k) Expenses 81 ($191k) Net assets 103 ($840k)2021 Revenue 120 ($280k) Expenses 99 ($236k) Net assets 107 ($876k)2022 Revenue 111 ($257k) Expenses 94 ($224k) Net assets 111 ($910k)2023 Revenue 128 ($298k) Expenses 97 ($229k) Net assets 120 ($979k)2024 Revenue 121 ($281k) Expenses 96 ($229k) Net assets 126 ($1.0M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (121)Expenses (96)Net assets (126)Peer revenue range

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 22% · 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
18
$78k
19
$57k
20
$44k
21
$33k
22
$69k
23
$53k
24
3.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $14k → $63k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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 CLARKE HISTORICAL 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

CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM.

47%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 84% · 2019 54% · 2020 66% · 2021 71% · 2022 68% · 2023 36%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.

Where its funders are

100% of CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 25%Fundraising 15%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,217 to it, the largest being Cecile Clarke Trust FBO Cecile Clarke Memorial Museum ($104,697). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $224,217 in grants to CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
Cecile Clarke Trust FBO Cecile Clarke Memorial Museum is the largest funder on record, with $104,697 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLARKE HISTORICAL MUSEUM 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing