Michigan · Nonprofit
MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM
MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,600 to it, the largest being RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $248k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $458k
What Marquette Maritime Museum does
Mission
To preserve and promote maritime history
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Marquette Maritime Museum: the museum is open six days a week from mid-may to mid-october. During the off season, the board, staff, and volunteers work to update and create new events and exhibits for the coming season. Interpretive exhibits include: three historic fresnel lighthouse lenses (the best collection in the great lakes); the "went missing" freighter henry b. Smith and legendary edmund fitzgerald; u.s. Life-saving service and early coast guard; historic great lakes passenger ships; history of iron ore shipping from marquette; area lighthouse history; and marine engine development. While the museum is self-guided, docent tours are available upon request. The museum operated in 2024 with five paid employees, twelve volunteer tour guides, and three student interns. Museum-sponsored school visits brought about 1,200 children and adults to the museum and marquette harbor lighthouse. Groups included local elementary schools and homeschool organizations, northern michigan university students and young wildcat scholars, and summer camp participants. Field trip admission is complimentary for local school groups. Marquette harbor lighthouse: lighthouse park, which includes the…
$114,510 spent$104,557 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther events include free children's art/history workshops in partnership with liberty children's art project; lake superior day, an educational and environmental celebration of lake superior; and maritime history on tap, a winter lecture series held once a month in the winter at the ore dock brewing company. Topics range from maritime music to shipwrecks to lake superior weather.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $114,510.
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 $342k to $461k (+35%).
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: 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.
From the IRS filings of MARQUETTE MARITIME 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 90% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM's grant income comes from Michigan 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
MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM?
- MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $101,600 to it, the largest being RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $101,600 in grants to MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM?
- RAY & PEG HIRVONEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARQUETTE MARITIME MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 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