Indiana · Nonprofit
MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,655 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ($257,996). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $677k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $324k
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Monroe County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the society is to collect, preserve, research, interpret and exhibit the genealogy, history and artifacts of monroe county, indiana as well as research and interpret the relation of that county's genealogy, history and artifacts to the state of indiana and the united states, and therby to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of monroe county's history, culture and natural environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The monroe county history center, which includes 12,000 square feet of museum gallery space, a local history, genealogy research library, and a museum store, is operated by the monroe county historical society. Semi-permanent exhibits tell the history and stories of the monroe county community including local industry, early families, education, and home life. The history center also has three gallery spaces that feature changing exhibits on topics related to local history and the community. These exhibits change every 4-6 months. The history center and the research library also develop and host public programming for all ages related to current exhibits, genealogy, and local history topics.
$523,448 spent$37,692 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $523,448.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $6.6M to $7.5M (+13%).
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: 2021 13% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Schlegel Jr
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $23k → $30k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’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
MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
87% 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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 79% · 2019 87% · 2020 64% · 2021 60% · 2022 86% · 2023 81% — diversifying over time.
“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
80% of MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $65k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $258k 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.
Government funding MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,655 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC ($257,996). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $323,655 in grants to MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON AND MONROE COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $257,996 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MONROE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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