Arkansas · Nonprofit
HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION
HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,601 to it, the largest being The Hussman Foundation ($10,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $218k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $34k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Historic Arkansas Museum Foundation does
Mission
The Historic Arkansas Museum Foundation: the foundation exists to support the historic arkansas museum thorugh activities that foster history and culture education through fundraising efforts that increase access to educational programming and by providing financial assistance related to collections acquisitions. Historic arkansas museum: the mission of this history and historic site museum is to communicate the early history of arkansas and its creative legacy through preserving, interpreting, and presenting stories and collections for the education and enjoyment of the people it serves.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Providing and promoting access to the museum's educational programs which are centered on arkansas history and culture through exhibits, demonstrations, and actors' portrayals of life in early arkansas (the living history program).
$54,020 spentof which $1,267 as grants$4,976 earned by the program36% of program spendingAcquisition of arkansas made artifacts for the museum's collection.
$91,024 spentof which $91,024 as grants61% of program spendingPresentation of the foods raised, produced, and prepared by a variety of cultures that influenced early arkansans way of life.
$2,996 spent2% of program spendingFrolic, 2nd friday art night (2fan), museum store product development, printing, postage & delivery, travel expenses.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $148,040.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $1.8M (−13%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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. 4 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
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $4k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION’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
HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 88% · 2022 59% · 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
100% of HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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
HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION
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 Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
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 HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: 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 HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,601 to it, the largest being The Hussman Foundation ($10,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $33,601 in grants to HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION?
- The Hussman Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC ARKANSAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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