Oregon · Nonprofit
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,771 to it, the largest being LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $508k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Lincoln County Historical Society does
Mission
To collect, preserve, interpret & exhibit objects and information illustrative of the history of lincoln county and the central oregon coast for the education and betterment of the community and for the interest of the public and visitors to newport oregon via two museums and a library containing an extensive archive of historical documents, photos, maps, books, and numerous objects of interest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The burrows house museum features exhibits providing education for its visitors on the history of lincoln county, the yaquina bay bridge, and features a victorian parlor, a law office, history of lincoln county's founders, photos and objects that shed light on the history of the central oregon coast, the evolution of technology, as well as human nature and appreciation for curiosities from the past. The log cabin research library is the destination for visitors whose focus is getting answers to their questions from this extensive historical archive which includes historical documents, photographs, maps, books, records, navigation charts, census data, genealogical information, historic literature, newspaper clippings and microfilm, oral histories and much more. The log cabin serves individual visitors as well as groups.
$104,069 spent$236 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe pacific maritime heritage center (pmhc) is an impressive historical building on the newport bayfront purchased and saved by lchs in 2004. Pmhc is a major museum and interactive center that incorporates the working wharf outside its doors on the bayfront, educational programs, and local maritime uses with maritime exhibits and art. Designed to attract, educate and entertain all ages, it also instills in local residents a sense of place and community. Pmhc also rents its facilites to the public for private events. This museum celebrates the history, art, diverse culture, commerce and scientific research that is of the ocean.
$368,970 spent$23,391 earned by the program78% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,039.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.3M to $2.6M (+10%).
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 57% · 2018 36% · 2019 70% · 2020 62% · 2021 87% · 2022 54% · 2023 66% · 2024 51% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LINCOLN COUNTY 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
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 77% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's revenue grew 28% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$20k
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 LINCOLN COUNTY 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 Oregon
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
90%
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 LINCOLN COUNTY 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 LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Oregon) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,771 to it, the largest being LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $136,771 in grants to LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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