Washington · Nonprofit
GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,269 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $170k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Granite Falls Historical Society does
Mission
The Society's mission is to collect, preserve and share the history of the Granite Falls region. We locate, identify, and collect appropriate material, protect and interpret that material, and finally make it available to the greatest possible extent. That includes museum operation, County-wide heritage community involvement, and live and online educational access to our collections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
MUSEUM OPERATION - Our major expense is the operation of the physical museum. Occupancy, insurance, depreciation, and construction/equipment top the list. Revenue is the admission/donation box. While admission to the museum is free, we received $110,395.41 in donations and grants specifically for museum expansion and equipment, and those are considered revenue here because their use was restricted solely to physical museum improvement. We were open every Sunday in 2025, and opened over 40 times for out-of-town visitors or organizations requesting a tour who phoned in to arrange weekday visits. We received at the end of 2025 a $100,000 bequest to add to our Endowment fund.
$11,074 spentof which $100,000 as grants$9,706 earned by the program42% of program spendingHERITAGE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT - Our second largest expense is typically our involvement in the county's heritage community, particularly in providing online resources useful for research and/or historic tourism. Online hosting expenses continued throughout 2023, including those for online maps, rural historic cyber-tours, and countywide online museum tours. Some of these expenses are reimbursable by a historic fund and are shown as grants. Timing of reimbursements cause yearly variations. In 2023, we updated and expanded the county-wide online museums tour (and were reimbursed $1,404) We digitized historic County newspapers (and were reimbursed $19,500). We provided historical orientation presentations for several antique automobile touring clubs. We also provided technical instruction to several county genealogical societies who were struggling to improve their organizational technology skills, specifically aimed at helping them in the use of new digital scanning equipment.
$13,537 spentof which $6,215 as grants$1,853 earned by the program51% of program spendingEDUCATION: We maintain a strong online presence, coupled with a broadly-distributed newsletter. Since we are an all-volunteer organization, our office and IT expenses are focused on continual educational awareness of, and access to, our collection. School class visits for 2025 were done. Hosting a total of 30 class presentation were provided to 3rd grade students. A number of printed pictures and documents were provided to local and online researchers, printing fees shown as revenue. We received a bequest at the end of the year that was directed to our Scholarship program. The donor requested that we specify the funds to go to 2 scholarships every year for a student seeking a STEM related education.
$1,600 spent$201,377 earned by the program6% of program spendingSafety Deposit Box, AASLH Membership, Fire Inspection, Chamber membership
$200 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,411.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $621k to $1.1M (+72%).
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: 2020 12% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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. 3 of the last 6 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 $58 → $47.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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
65% 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 GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 81% · 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
65% of GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $110k 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
GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters 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
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,269 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Snohomish County ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $170,269 in grants to GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- Community Foundation of Snohomish County is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing