Oregon · Nonprofit
CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,420 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $476k
- Net assets
- $8.5M
What Clatsop County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The society is a private, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of clatsop county, oregon and the surrounding area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education, exhibit, and collection - the society operates four distinctively different museums, all housed in historic buildings, as follows:* the flavel house: a queen anne victorian-style home, built in 1885, features original eastlake style woodwork interiors and exotic hardwood fireplaces with imported tile surrounds.* the heritage museum: built in 1904 as astoria's city hall, this building now houses the society's regional museum and archives. Galleries feature permanent exhibits about native americans, john jacob astor and the fur trade, immigrants, and natural resources. Continued on schedule o.* the uppertown fire station no. 2: this museum houses an extensive collection of fire-fighting equipment dating from 1879 to 1963, including horse-drawn and motorized fire engines, as well as firefighting memorabilia and photos. * the oregon film museum: the museum celebrates the art and legacy of films and film-making in the state of oregon. Housed in the old clatsop county jail, the museum invites visitors to explore these and other films and the production behind making movies in oregon.* curatorial and conservation: the society maintains an archive and research library that…
$732,342 spent$547,831 earned by the program67% of program spendingMembership and auxiliary services: the society organizes various special events such as talking tombstones, plum pudding, and old fashioned fun and games, which serve to educate the public about the pastimes and people of astoria. The society also publishes a periodic newsletter for its members.
$321,057 spent$273,375 earned by the program29% of program spendingCumtux: the society also publishes and sells cumtux, a quarterly public history journal that brings documented history about oregon, and in particular astoria and its surrounding area, to both scholars and a general audience.
$47,130 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,100,529.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $5.7M to $7.8M (+37%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 11% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Mcandrew Burns
Executive director
Board chair
Luke Colvin
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $26k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 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
CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $253k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO FOR-PROFIT SUBRECIPIENT$253k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$100
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 CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $476,420 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($250,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $476,420 in grants to CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLATSOP COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2025), 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