Minnesota · Nonprofit
MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,601 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($271,992). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $247k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $609k
- Net assets
- $727k
What Morrison County Historical Society does
Mission
The Morrison County Historical Society is dedicated to the preservation and sharing of morrison county's history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Morrison County Historical Society (mchs) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing morrison county history. It owns and operates the charles a. Weyerhaeuser memorial museum in little falls, mn.on january 16, alesha ouren filled the museum manager position after working through the laura jane musser grant photo project. She was paid with funds from the musser grant until it depleted in may, and she began receiving payroll.the plans for mchs's riverbank restoration project went into motion early 2025. The first round of bids from march 17 were rejected, all over $1 million, then the board accepted the package from sunram corporation of corcoran, mn after the second round of bids. The plans to replace the roof also went into effect in 2025. The board accepted a bid from the equity builders & construction services on may 27.mchs continued our partnership with the morrison county fair. Our exhibit at the santa house this year focused on morrison county in the 1980s. The overall reception was incredibly positive, with guests sharing their own memories of the 80s.2025 was mchs's third year participating in the charmed bike ride as part of visit…
$202,580 spent$738 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,580.
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 $451k to $791k (+76%).
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: 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 23% · 2023 29% · 2024 80% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MORRISON 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. 2 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.
Chief executive
Mike Worcester
Executive director
Board chair
Camille Warzecha
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $48k → $90k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 MORRISON 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
MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 52% · 2020 72% · 2021 75% · 2022 68% · 2023 62% — 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
69% of MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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 $187k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $422k 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
MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$21k
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 MORRISON 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MORRISON 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 MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Minnesota) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $608,601 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($271,992). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $608,601 in grants to MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $271,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MORRISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 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