Washington · Nonprofit
FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,431 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($13,824). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $136k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $254k
What Ferry County Historical Society does
Mission
To preserve, promote and perpetuate the history and culture of Ferry County, WA
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Independent contractor completing critical preservation and restoration work on the J.W.& Elizabeth Slagle House Museum and Barn (both on National Register of Historic Places) and another independent contractor rebuilt soil stabilizing rock wall on property being developed for historic site. Also grounds maintenance for two museum sites.
$21,030 spentof which $14,759 as grants72% of program spendingBusiness operation expenses, i.e. IRS & State reporting, financial consultation, paid membership in other 501c.3 organizations, supplies for maintaining historic collection, D&O Board insurance, advertising two museums, annual meeting
$5,626 spentof which $3,376 as grants19% of program spendingMaintenance supplies and materials for two museums and new site development, utilities Slagle House Museum, liability insurance two museums, property tax two parcels weed assessment only.
$2,091 spentof which $1,128 as grants7% of program spendingPostage for routine mailings, postage to mail orders for photographs and booklet, printing and copying information for Annual Meeting
$665 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,412.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $300k to $137k (−55%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $31.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 FERRY COUNTY 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
FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
55% of FERRY COUNTY 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 $12k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Government funding FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $41k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$41k
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 FERRY COUNTY 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.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FERRY COUNTY 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 FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,431 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($13,824). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $25,431 in grants to FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FERRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $13,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FERRY COUNTY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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