Oregon · Nonprofit
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being BEAN FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $222k
What Jefferson County Historical Society and Museum Inc does
Mission
Historical Preservation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Published twice a year: The Agate is a journal of local history inserted in The Madras Pioneer and also mailed to our membership. The Agate is also available on our website. 4,500 people.
$4,957 spent41% of program spendingOur website is available to the public. Our events are listed monthly. Held a history pub in June. Speaker Diane Piercy-Green presented Theaters in Central Oregon and their history. 150 people.
$900 spent7% of program spendingRented office in downtown Madras to make available to public. In May of 2025 purchased Old Methodist Church for our museum. Held open house, coffee cuppers, other special events at the church. 300 people.
$6,382 spent52% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,239.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $172k to $201k (+17%).
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.
87% of JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM 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.
Where its funders are
100% of JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC
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In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC: 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC?
- JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC (Oregon) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being BEAN FOUNDATION INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC.
- Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC?
- BEAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2021–2025), 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