California · Nonprofit
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $377 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($377). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $329k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $377
- Net assets
- $602k
What Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert does
Mission
Preservation and dissemination of local history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Continued rehabilitation of the Historic USO Building, the Veterans Memorial Building, old Firehouse and related historic structures in Ridgecrest. Preservation and restoration of these buildings by the HSUMD allows their use as a historic exhibits and archives facility as well as an events facility for the entire community.
$10,088 spent62% of program spendingNewsletter and Publications. HSUMD prints and mails over 223 newsletter 12 times per year and emails over 220 copies containing information on upcoming HSUMD lectures and events as well as articles on local history. We publish books on local history. We maintain a website of events, activities and other historical information.
$5,001 spent31% of program spendingAdding and maintaining our archives and collections and preparing exhibits on local history. The exhibits are in our Historic USO Building, our Veterans Memorial Building, and the California Welcome Center in Ridgecrest. As we host numerous community events, as well as fundraising and other events, these exhibits are seen by both local visitors as well as out of State visitors providing local history and education to all.
$1,234 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,323.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $359k to $605k (+69%).
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.
86% of HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT’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. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $83 → $80.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377 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
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT runs a healthier operating margin 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT: 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 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT?
- HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $377 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($377). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $377 in grants to HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $377 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MOJAVE DESERT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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