Minnesota · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL
FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,537 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($19,495). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $120k
What Friends of the History Museum of East Otter Tail does
Mission
The mission of the friends of the history museum is to learn about and interest others in the history and culture of the area. The museum maintains a collection of original documents and provides free online access to local historical records and photographs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization maintains the itow (in their own words) museum. This museum is a veterans museum that presents pre-recorded true stories spoken in person by the vets. The museum has artistic items from civil, wwi,ww2, vietnam, korean, up thru today.
$21,055 spent$32,210 earned by the program72% of program spendingThe organization maintans a core library of original documents and social aspects of east otter tail county. The orgainzations provides arts and humaities programming throughout the year in the form of lectures, workshops, artisitc displays, and artistic/cultural performances. The museums provide free online access to local historical records and photgraphs on its website, www.historymuseumeot.com
$7,883 spent$10,100 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe organization manages pioneer village, a 25-acre park with historic buildings. The organization produces an annual arts and culture festival at pioneer village and maintains the site seasonally for cultural use by the public.
$508 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,446.
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 2022 to 2023, from $68k to $112k (+64%).
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 71% · 2018 63% · 2019 54% · 2020 73% · 2021 57% · 2022 43% · 2023 21% · 2024 32% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10 → $17.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL’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
FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 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
100% of FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $42 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL?
- FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,537 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($19,495). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,537 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $19,495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE HISTORY MUSEUM OF EAST OTTER TAIL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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