Michigan · Nonprofit
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,953,821 to it, the largest being The Offield Family Foundation ($335,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Harbor Springs Area Historical Society does
Mission
To preserve, interpret, and share the history of the harbor springs area, while encouraging curiosity and promoting an understanding of how the lessons of the past foster an informed community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operate a high-quality local history museum which includes permanent exhibits, hands-on activities, changing exhibits, and grade-level appropriate educational programs. Utilize the museum facility to present additional outstanding history-based programming including monthly lecture, oral history workshops, and education programs for all ages. Lastly, maintain and preserve an archive of photographs, documents, and artifacts pertaining to harbor springs history. These programs were accomplished in part by volunteer services.
$265,499 spent$56,146 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe andrew j. Blackbird museum is owned by the city of harbor springs. All of the exhibits and artifacts housed at the blackbird museum are owned by the city of harbor springs. The Harbor Springs Area Historical Society was hired by the city of harbor springs to staff the museum so that it could remain open to the public while also managing their collection of native american artifacts and exhibits.
$188 spent$34,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $265,687.
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 $4.7M to $6.2M (+30%).
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 6% · 2021 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $19k → $388k.
15 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
34% 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 HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 33% · 2020 48% · 2021 19% · 2022 53% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“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
68% of HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $670k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Against its field
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,953,821 to it, the largest being The Offield Family Foundation ($335,000). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $1,953,821 in grants to HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- The Offield Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 45 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