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GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC

GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,700 to it, the largest being A G COX CHARITY TRUST XXXXX9001 ($145,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$293k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$387k
Net assets
$668k
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What Geneva Lake Museum Inc does

Mission

Preserve and promote the history of the geneva lakes area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preserve and promote the history of the geneva lakes area.

    $212,290 spent$192,907 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $212,290.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($147k) Expenses 100 ($132k) Net assets 100 ($317k)2018 Revenue 112 ($164k) Expenses 124 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($317k)2019 Revenue 129 ($189k) Expenses 125 ($164k) Net assets 108 ($342k)2020 Revenue 114 ($167k) Expenses 137 ($181k) Net assets 104 ($329k)2021 Revenue 152 ($223k) Expenses 125 ($165k) Net assets 122 ($388k)2022 Revenue 153 ($225k) Expenses 155 ($205k) Net assets 121 ($384k)2023 Revenue 181 ($266k) Expenses 196 ($259k) Net assets 128 ($405k)2024 Revenue 288 ($424k) Expenses 161 ($213k) Net assets 197 ($625k)2025 Revenue 199 ($293k) Expenses 202 ($267k) Net assets 211 ($668k)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (202)Net assets (211)

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 $409k to $632k (+55%).

$325k
$322k
$346k
$333k
$390k
$387k
$409k
$632k
$671k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$15k
’17
$731
’18
$25k
’19
−$14k
’20
$59k
’21
$21k
’22
$7k
’23
$211k
’24
$26k
’25
12
months of
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed1818181717
Joined·+0+0+5+0
No longer listed·0060
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $3k → $29k.

2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 18 of 19 funders by total. 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

GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

37%
largest funder
76%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 68% · 2019 82% · 2020 66% · 2021 74% · 2022 60% · 2023 52% — 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.

How long its funders stay

56% of GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 5 states in all.

IL
WI
CA
DE
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC?
GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $386,700 to it, the largest being A G COX CHARITY TRUST XXXXX9001 ($145,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $386,700 in grants to GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC?
A G COX CHARITY TRUST XXXXX9001 is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GENEVA LAKE MUSEUM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 19 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