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LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM

LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$590k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$2.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum does

Mission

To foster and encourage the interest of the general public of the importance of nuts in the diets of humans throughout history and in the evolution of the nutcracker. No other tool or collectable has shown such a wide diversity of material and design as the implements used to crack the hard shell of a nut.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To foster and encourage the interest of the general public of the importance of nuts in the diets of humans throughout history and in the evolution of the nutcracker. There are approximately 6,000 nutcrackers that are showcased in the museum.

    $279,687 spent$137,435 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $279,687.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($187k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 106 ($198k) Expenses 114 ($171k) Net assets 102 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 152 ($284k) Expenses 139 ($209k) Net assets 107 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 127 ($238k) Expenses 131 ($196k) Net assets 110 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 311 ($582k) Expenses 170 ($256k) Net assets 133 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 238 ($444k) Expenses 198 ($297k) Net assets 143 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 279 ($521k) Expenses 219 ($329k) Net assets 156 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 315 ($590k) Expenses 252 ($378k) Net assets 171 ($2.5M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (315)Expenses (252)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+21%).

$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.5M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
’17
$27k
’18
$75k
’19
$42k
’20
$326k
’21
$147k
’22
$192k
’23
$211k
’24
22
months of
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed1011988988
Joined·+5+0+2+3+1+1+2
No longer listed·4233022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
Artsfundunclassified
$20k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM’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 LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin36% · top quartile
Months of reserve22.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM

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 Washington

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

31%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM: 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 LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM?
LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM?
ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAVENWORTH NUTCRACKER MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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