Kentucky · Nonprofit
HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC
HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($254,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $408k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Historic Russellville Inc does
Mission
To collect and preserve the cultural heritage of Logan County, Ky and the surrounding area, including and emphasizing our shared history of slavery, emancipation and the struggles for freedom, equality and civil rights; and to develop museum sites that will provide educational programming related to this history so that visitors can seek knowledge, truth and understanding.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Museum created an educational film that focused on the life of Alice Allison Dunnigan, the first female, African American who was authorized to attend and report on Presidential, Congressional and Supreme Court press conferences. Educational materials and curriculum were produced to accompany the film. This project was funded by a grant from the NPS and the AACRN.
$17,814 spentof which $19,000 as grants32% of program spendingResearch was conducted to identify African American Civil War veterans from Logan County, Ky, and the listing and information has been archived by the Museum and is available to the public. An exhibit was created and is on display at the museum. This project was funded by the Ky250 project.
$10,866 spentof which $10,000 as grants20% of program spendingGenealogical research was conducted to identify descendants of the people who were enslaved by Major Richard Bibb. Previous research had been conducted, and additional research expanded the information regarding descendants. This research corresponded with the development by the Museum of a descendant advisory Board composed of Bibb descendants.
$17,192 spentof which $10,000 as grants31% of program spendingRestoration work at the chapel at Bibbtown was continued from the past 2 years, and the first phase of this restoration was completed.
$9,077 spentof which $9,000 as grants17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,949.
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 $910k to $1.0M (+11%).
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: 2021 17% · 2022 16% · 2023 15% · 2024 33% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC’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.
Board chair
Joseph Clark
President and Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $30k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 RUSSELLVILLE INC’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 RUSSELLVILLE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
81% 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 HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 56% · 2022 63% · 2023 67% — 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
66% of HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC'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 $137k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Kentucky, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k 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
HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC's revenue grew 19% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $70k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$46k
- Department of the Interior$24k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC?
- HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $408,169 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($254,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $408,169 in grants to HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $254,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC RUSSELLVILLE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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