Iowa · Nonprofit
KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,047 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY RIVERBOAT FOUNDATION INC ($725,614). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $707k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $771k
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Kalona Historical Society does
Mission
The Kalona Historical Society promotes the history and culture of the area by educating the public on the value of preservation and interpretation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoting the history and culture of the area by educating the public on the value of preservation and interpretation. The Kalona Historical Society attempts to perform this by: 1. Maintaining historically-accurate buildings that contain period- appropriate exhibits, 2. Collecting and preserving over 800 antique quilts, and 3. Hosting tours to educate visitors about the culture and traditions of mennonite and amish ways of life.
$258,044 spent$108,423 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $258,044.
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 $1.9M to $2.3M (+23%).
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 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of KALONA 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. 0 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.
Chief executive
Steve Reif
Exec dir
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $42k → $5k.
1 of 4 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 KALONA 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
KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
94% 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 KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 91% · 2019 73% · 2020 83% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
94% of KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33 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
KALONA 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 KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KALONA 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 KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $771,047 to it, the largest being WASHINGTON COUNTY RIVERBOAT FOUNDATION INC ($725,614). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $771,047 in grants to KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KALONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- WASHINGTON COUNTY RIVERBOAT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $725,614 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KALONA 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 4 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