Indiana · Nonprofit
INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC
INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,674 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($83,400). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $631k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $316k
- Net assets
- $919k
What Indiana Medical History Museum Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to present the rich medical history of Indiana by preserving the Old Pathology Building collecting medical artifacts and providing exhibits publications and programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through interpretation and preservation of the old pathology building it stands intact with much of its original furnishings and equipment the historic doctors office presents the complete contents of a general family practitioner that provides a tangible experience of medicine circa 1950. Through its exhibits publications and programs the museum educates the general public members of the community concerning health care and life sciences in Indiana during the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.
$107,177 spent$171,014 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe Indiana Medical History Museum received a Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to improve storage and environmental conditions for its visual collections by adding insulation under the roof deck installing blackout window shades renovating water damaged walls and ceiling and updating physical storage.
$337,376 spentof which $168,103 as grants73% of program spendingThe medicinal plant garden demonstrates over 100 different species of plants used to treat diseases on five continents. The well labeled garden exhibit teaches visitors what plants can do including being the source of modern wonder drugs like aspirin digoxin and chemotherapeutic agents.
$17,565 spent$19,950 earned by the program4% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $462,118.
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 $766k to $921k (+20%).
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 21% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 11% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM 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. 1 of the last 5 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
Sarah Halter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $300 → $165.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 34% · 2021 85% · 2022 55% · 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.
How long its funders stay
11% of INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
61% of INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM 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 $122k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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
Government funding INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $236k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$236k
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 INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC?
- INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $315,674 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($83,400). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $315,674 in grants to INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $83,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INDIANA MEDICAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 14 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