North Carolina · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY
MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $596,776 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($120,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $597k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Museum of Durham History does
Mission
The Museum of Durham History is a 21st century museum that uses stories about people, places and things to foster curiosity, encourage further inquiry, and promote an understanding of diverse perspectives about the durham community and its history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Our bull city: photos, artifacts, and stories showcase diverse perspectives about the community through rotating exhibits and programs at the museum.
$99,455 spent$61,492 earned by the program53% of program spendingMuseum without walls: our exhibits start at the museum, but they soon find locations in public spaces throughout the community. This also includes history groves, online exhibits, and educational programming in classrooms and online.
$1,271 spent$560 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$88,079 spent47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $188,805.
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 2018 to 2019, from $114k to $251k (+120%).
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: 2018 40% · 2019 11% · 2020 20% · 2021 41% · 2022 39% · 2023 50% · 2024 54% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY’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. 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.
Chief executive
Patrick Mucklow
Executive director
Board chair
Bettina Umstead
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $25k → $46k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $279k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Triangle Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY raised.
From the IRS filings of MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY’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 OF DURHAM HISTORY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 OF DURHAM HISTORY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 100% · 2019 30% · 2020 38% · 2021 26% · 2022 36% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
27% of MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
96% of MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY has grown faster 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
Organizations like MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
44% 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 MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY?
- MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $596,776 to it, the largest being DUKE UNIVERSITY ($120,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $596,776 in grants to MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY?
- DUKE UNIVERSITY is the largest funder on record, with $120,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 17 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