Missouri · Nonprofit
GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,588 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($42,588). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $91k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $82k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Grand River Historial Society Museum does
Mission
Education the museum functions as a time capsule using everday object and images to tell stories collected from the daily lives of the men, women, and families who built our community. The museum allows visitors to re-connect with the early history of the region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The grand river historical society and museum has obtain on loan the original slice bread machine for display at our museum from the smithsonian. Rescued 1868 ame church slated for demolition to museum site to be repurposed as black history museum and community center as fund allow.
$88,892 spent$91,282 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,892.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.6M (+24%).
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 3% · 2020 48% · 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $2k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM’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
GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2020 81% · 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
GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
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 GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM: 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 GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM?
- GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM (Missouri) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,588 to it, the largest being THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION ($42,588). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $81,588 in grants to GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM?
- THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,588 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 6 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