Vermont · Nonprofit
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC (Vermont) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,342,665 to it, the largest being BRITTON FUND 4240-00-44 ($305,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc does
Mission
To preserve and share the cultural and natural heritage of the lake champlain region by connecting all people with the lake, inspiring them to learn from the past, build together in the present, and create a sustainable future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General operation of the museum including courses, general education programs, virtual education programs, digital education through social media and the museum's website, research, and children's programming. For the 2023 season, over 10,000 people visited the museum in-person and free of charge while thousands of others explored lcmm's digital programming.
$207,831 spent$30,192 earned by the program17% of program spendingVarious educational programs including champlain discovery & longboats that teach boat building, navigation, history and ecology to high school students. Other educational programs include various nautical-related courses, school outreach programs, and summer camps.
$736,264 spent$112,278 earned by the program59% of program spendingVarious archaeology projects, including researching, documenting, protecting, and making accessible lake champlain's underwater cultural resources. This work makes possible the conservation and presentation of over 300 shipwrecks in the lake and 10,000 objects and archives in the museum's collection.
$299,345 spent$224,455 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,243,440.
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 $5.2M to $5.9M (+14%).
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 5% · 2019 11% · 2020 30% · 2021 22% · 2022 25% · 2023 42% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Scott Hardy
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $107k → $333k.
10 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 21% · 2019 21% · 2020 41% · 2021 21% · 2022 31% · 2023 41% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $717k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $994k on record.
- National Archives and Records Administration$425k
- Department of Commerce$222k
- Department of the Interior$190k
- Environmental Protection Agency$60k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$53k
- Department of Defense$24k
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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR 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 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC?
- LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC (Vermont) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,342,665 to it, the largest being BRITTON FUND 4240-00-44 ($305,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $2,342,665 in grants to LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC?
- BRITTON FUND 4240-00-44 is the largest funder on record, with $305,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 45 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