Kansas · Nonprofit
GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,124 to it, the largest being SUNFLOWER FOUNDATION HEALTH CARE FOR KANSANS ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $166k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $355k
What Geary County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
Historical Preservation & Conservation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Historic Preservation & Education: Provide classroom visitations to local schools to discuss local history; hold afternoon learning sessions twice a month aimed at home-schooled children; hold 1-day classes in one room schoolhouse building at historic site for grade school children; publish weekly historical article in newspaper; participate in parades and other public events.
$2,892 spent4% of program spendingPreservation of 4 historic sites. Spring Valley Schoolhouse a turn of the century schoolhouse routinely used for current day class visitation; Starcke House, a period home used for tours and available to public for meetings and special events; and, St. Joseph Church, a historic church and cemetery located in rural Geary Co. Also provide research for, and participate in, efforts for the preservation of other local historic sites.
$66,653 spent94% of program spendingHistoric Preservation & Conservation: Local depository for old county records; active geneology group provides research to public; and acquire and maintain artifacts.
$1,225 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,770.
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 2024 to 2025, from $429k to $355k (−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 63% · 2018 62% · 2019 60% · 2020 69% · 2022 54% · 2023 52% · 2024 50%. 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 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 fell $31 → $21.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $536k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Geary County Historical Society Endowment of Junction City Ks). These are real filings, and they are not money GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GEARY COUNTY 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
GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 97% · 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
92% of GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $124 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.
Organizations like GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
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In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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 GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,124 to it, the largest being SUNFLOWER FOUNDATION HEALTH CARE FOR KANSANS ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,124 in grants to GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEARY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- SUNFLOWER FOUNDATION HEALTH CARE FOR KANSANS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEARY COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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