Washington · Nonprofit
EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,115 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($211,899). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $614k
- Net assets
- $16M
What Eastern Washington State Historical Society does
Mission
The mission of the Eastern Washington State Historical Society is to actively engage all people in the appreciation of arts and culture through collections, stewardship, exhibits and programs that educate and entertain.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections/library & archives: collects, maintains, restores, and catalogs artifacts and ephemera that are part of the permanent collection. Prepares accessioned, borrowed and traveling objects for display/exhibition.
$1,954,955 spent$141,082 earned by the program36% of program spendingEducation: teaching visitors about the art, culture, history, and way of life of the region through classes, lectures, and interpretation of exhibits.
$1,897,898 spent$117,160 earned by the program35% of program spendingExhibitions: integrating exhibits of art, history and american indian collections of the inland northwest.
$1,627,482 spent$380,705 earned by the program30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,480,335.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $18M to $17M (−9%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 48% · 2019 64% · 2020 61% · 2021 76% · 2022 71% · 2023 74% · 2024 69% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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.
Chief executive
Wesley Jessup
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $25k → $97k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY raised.
From the IRS filings of EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE 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
EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 35% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 32% — 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
80% of EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
53% of EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE 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 $289k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $325k 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
EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY has grown faster than half 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 EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $300k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$250k
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $614,115 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($211,899). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $614,115 in grants to EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $211,899 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EASTERN WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 14 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