Texas · Nonprofit
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,391 to it, the largest being STRAKE FOUNDATION ($68,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $379k
What Heritage Museum of Montgomery County does
Mission
The museum promotes the rich historical and cultural heritage of the community by collecting, preserving, and exhibiting articles of significance to the history of the county and performs numerous community events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum Programming - Displays for permanent exhibits of hsitorical memorabilia, photographs, and documents in its two main buildings and on the museum grounds. HMMC displays temporary exhibits, generally 3-4 months, of memorabilia on loan from community members and organizations. In 2011, HMMC began an oral history project to capture and preserve memories and achievements of area residents. Each interview is posted to the HMMC website. These interviews keep these individual memories alive. In 2023, HMMC added 8 oral histories to its collection. HMMC presented 11 educational programs in intimate adult gatherings or Saturday pioneer adventure programs.
$123,550 spent$240 earned by the program94% of program spendingScholarship Program - Four students received scholarships to assist with their degrees .
$4,000 spent3% of program spendingGift Shop - The HMMC gift shop is the recipient of beautifully handcrafted items donated by local volunteers. These items are sold in the gift shop with proceeds supporting the museums programming activities.
$4,463 spent$8,875 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $132,013.
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 2021 to 2022, from $300k to $346k (+15%).
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: 2023 72% · 2024 32% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of Heritage Museum of Montgomery County’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Chief executive
Suann Hereford
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $20k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Heritage Museum of Montgomery County’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
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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: 2017 100% · 2018 78% · 2019 66% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 98% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Heritage Museum of Montgomery County's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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.
Against its field
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Heritage Museum of Montgomery County
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Heritage Museum of Montgomery County: 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 Heritage Museum of Montgomery County?
- Heritage Museum of Montgomery County (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,391 to it, the largest being STRAKE FOUNDATION ($68,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Heritage Museum of Montgomery County have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $102,391 in grants to Heritage Museum of Montgomery County, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Heritage Museum of Montgomery County?
- STRAKE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Heritage Museum of Montgomery County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 5 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