South Dakota · Nonprofit
MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC
MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,725 to it, the largest being BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Museum Alliance of Rapid City Inc does
Mission
The mission of the journey museum is to preserve, educate and explore the heritage, cultures and environment of the black hills region to understand our past, enrich our present and sustain our future. The vision is to inspire all audiences to learn and play in a vibrant and dynamic atmoshphere; create wonder and curiosity through exhibits and programs that lead to life-long learning; reveal cultural, historical, and scientific connections to foster new knowledge, appreciation and understanding in our community and its visitors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The journey museum houses artifacts and materials that assist in the education and understanding of our area's history, heritage, and culture. The museum includes a wide variety of prehistoric and historic artifacts that tell the complete story of the black hills region - from the perspective of the lakota people and the pioneers who shaped its past, to the scientists who now study it. The journey museum educates, supports and provides learning and cultural awareness to community members and visitors. Activities include a learning lab stocked with educational materials, youth educational experiences, school and group tours, and adult educational programs. The journey museum saw approximately 30,000 visitors in the museum in 2025. The museum also seeks to collaborate whenever possible with other organizations and potential partners while always honoring our current partnerships. We believe collaboration is essential to organizational success. In 2025, the journey museum acquired all assets of minnilusa historical association, a 501c3 organization that maintains a pioneer museum. The acquisition allows the journey to expand its collection. The hope is that the combined resources and…
$566,372 spentof which $342 as grants$251,133 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $566,372.
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 2024 to 2025, from $757k to $4.3M (+467%).
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 47% · 2018 45% · 2019 44% · 2020 72% · 2021 70% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% · 2024 47% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Stacie Granum
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $3k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY 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
MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
56% 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 MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 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
56% of MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY 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 $16k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from South Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $216k on record.
- Department of the Interior$116k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$50k
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 MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY 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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- City of Rapid City · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC?
- MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC (South Dakota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,725 to it, the largest being BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,725 in grants to MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC?
- BLACK HILLS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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 MUSEUM ALLIANCE OF RAPID CITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 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