Kansas · Nonprofit
FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,718 to it, the largest being Golden Belt Community Foundation ($125,177). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $333k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $169k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Fort Larned Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The santa fe trail center is a unique educational institution devoted to the interpretation of the historic transportation route known as the santa fe trail. This regional museum and library preserves artifacts and manuscripts related to the blending of the major cultures along the trail and enhances understanding of the continued development of the trail. Interrelated interpretive exhibits, learning programs and resource materials engage and enlighten a diverse public of varied ages, backgrounds and knowledge compelling them to examine their perception of the past.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Maintain and operate a historical museum to educate the public regarding the santa fe trail.
$124,672 spent$142,889 earned by the program82% of program spendingThe tired iron show is presented to connect the visitors with the history of the area as well as the trail.
$3,958 spent$28,613 earned by the program3% of program spendingRendezvous is a 3-day educational history seminar held every two years. Rendezvous topics vary but they always deal with life on and around the trail.
$16,559 spent$27,547 earned by the program11% of program spendingVarious special events are held throughout the year to promote the museum and the activities of the organization.
$5,985 spent$5,967 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,174.
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.
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 $2.1M to $2.5M (+17%).
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 21% · 2018 16% · 2019 14% · 2020 15% · 2021 7% · 2022 11% · 2023 22% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Seth Mcfarland
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $13k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FORT LARNED 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
FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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 FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 54% · 2020 64% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
74% of FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 $43k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 FORT LARNED 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,718 to it, the largest being Golden Belt Community Foundation ($125,177). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $168,718 in grants to FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- Golden Belt Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,177 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 3 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