Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $850 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $850
- Net assets
- $380k
What Lake Superior Marine Museum Association does
Mission
Education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Lsmma - supports the lake superior maritime visitor center with exhibits and the marine collection. Total visitors in 2025 = 182,000
$68,399 spent65% of program spendingGales of november 2025 seminar - 209 registrations for the friday and saturday programs.
$23,728 spent22% of program spendingPublished quarterly journal recording maritime history of area, distributed to approximately 370 members and others.
$13,660 spent13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,787.
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 2022 to 2023, from $297k to $359k (+21%).
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.
77% of LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $150.
From the IRS filings of LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION’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 LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $850 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
68%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $850 to it, the largest being XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION ($850). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $850 in grants to LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION?
- XCEL ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE SUPERIOR MARINE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 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