Iowa · Nonprofit
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,327 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($681,269). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $167k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $702k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Jackson County Historical Society does
Mission
Identify, record and preserve artifacts representing Jackson county history. Promote an interest in and education of residents and visitors concerning county history through collection and display of artifacts and historical information including genealogical material. Hold weekly educational lectures on topics of local interest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Organization acquires and preserves Jackson County Iowa historical artifacts and information and preserves and displays them for the public to see at two museum locations in Maquoketa, Iowa. Cost of staffing and maintaining facilities is our single largest expense. Operate two gift shops at these sites.
$69,708 spent$11,819 earned by the program94% of program spendingEducational presentations and program services at museum facilities. Included are display expenses and admissions revenue.
$2,531 spent$868 earned by the program3% of program spendingPreserve and promote historic Hurst Limestone Kilns near Maquoketa where public can view the only remaining group of Kilns in the country. Self guided tour facility with education placards detailing the once booming enterprise of a century ago. JCHS also supports other historical preservation efforts in surrounding communities such as Bellevue, Andrew, Canton that highlight or preserve important structures or programs for those specific areas.
$1,525 spent2% of program spendingEach Tuesday at noon JCHS hosts a Brown Bag Lunch event with a presentation on some historic event, artifact, person etc usually attended by 35-40 peoplel
$657 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $74,421.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $2.1M (+6%).
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% · 2018 12% · 2019 21% · 2020 27% · 2021 12% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
65% of JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $52k → $469.
1 of 5 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 JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 85% — 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
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $308 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
JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $702,327 to it, the largest being QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($681,269). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $702,327 in grants to JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $681,269 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2017–2025), 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