Colorado · Nonprofit
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,671 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $339k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum Inc does
Mission
To preserve and share the history of the gunnison valley. We make the past a living part of the future.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Preserving and maintaining our building, the crested butte hardware, built in 1883 and one of crested butte's iconic historic buildings. In 2019, the organization completed a two-phased building rehabilitation and seed funded a building preservation fund. - housing and providing public access to our permanent and rotating local history exhibits - in fy25/26, 42,755 visitors walked through our doors. - maintaining and developing our collection of historic artifacts, including cataloguing, accessioning and de-accessioning; proper storage and conservation; and seasonal rotation in the public exhibit space. - providing access to researchers to our collection as well as performing research upon request. - offering a variety of educational programs to the community throughout the year including k-12 field trips, a summer kids program, historic tours, new exhibit open houses, historical reenactments, speakers, movie nights, free admission days and virtual programming.
$274,909 spent$29,540 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $274,909.
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.
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 $1.4M to $1.5M (+6%).
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: 2018 39% · 2019 1% · 2021 16% · 2022 19% · 2026 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $26k → $20k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE 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
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% 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
91% 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 CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 94% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 26% · 2023 60% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
85% of CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC'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 $27k that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $149k 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
CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 630 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC?
- CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,671 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($52,750). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $175,671 in grants to CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRESTED BUTTE MOUNTAIN HERITAGE MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), and the filings of 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing