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COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,850 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($31,650). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$28k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$39k
Net assets
$244k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Cold Spring Area Historical Society does

Mission

To preserve and promote the history of the cold spring and surounding rocori area

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. To preserve and promote the history of the cold spring and surounding

    $14,321 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. To preserve and promote the history of the cold spring and surounding

    $3,348 spent
    19% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,669.

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 ($9k) Expenses 100 ($6k) Net assets 100 ($14k)2018 Revenue 60 ($5k) Expenses 56 ($3k) Net assets 117 ($16k)2019 Revenue 1119 ($102k) Expenses 107 ($6k) Net assets 794 ($112k)2020 Revenue 1129 ($103k) Expenses 316 ($17k) Net assets 1396 ($197k)2021 Revenue 847 ($77k) Expenses 848 ($47k) Net assets 1608 ($227k)2022 Revenue 374 ($34k) Expenses 424 ($24k) Net assets 1682 ($238k)2023 Revenue 295 ($27k) Expenses 326 ($18k) Net assets 1744 ($246k)2024 Revenue 313 ($28k) Expenses 555 ($31k) Net assets 1729 ($244k)
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Revenue (313)Expenses (555)Net assets (1729)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 2018 to 2019, from $16k to $112k (+582%).

$14k
$16k
$112k
$198k
$227k
$238k
$246k
$244k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4k
’17
$2k
’18
$96k
’19
$85k
’20
$30k
’21
$10k
’22
$9k
’23
−$2k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $9k.

Funder
'20
'21
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
2
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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

COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

81%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 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

81% of COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,850 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($31,650). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,850 in grants to COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $31,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLD SPRING AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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