Idaho · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF IDAHO
MUSEUM OF IDAHO (Idaho) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,773,554 to it, the largest being Greg Carr Foundation Inc ($2,962,738). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.6M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What Museum of Idaho does
Mission
The Museum of Idaho seeks to inspire wonder and discovery about idaho and our world through science and the humanities. Moi is fully dependent on donations, grants ticket sales, and store revenue to fund this mission, key to which is ensuring its education offerings are as accessible as possible to understand populations in east idaho and beyond.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The museum served 80-100 thousand visitors during the year through its exhibitions, including its interactive idaho exhibit and world class traveling exhibits, which frequently make idaho falls the nations smallest city to offer such experiences, and open a world for residents of this sometimes isolated region. Moi has undertaken significant measures to increase access to high quality informal education oppurtunities at little to no cost for residents. General admission is already low compared to the majority of museum that host major traveling exhibits and admisssion is highly discounted further for a number of groups. Idahoans receive 2 off admission, and households covered by idaho's supplemental nutrition assisstance program receive admission anytime for only 1 per person. Furthermore, moi offers free memberships for students at a local community college and half-price memberships for low-income families. Moi offers a deeply discounted admission rate for school field trips and subsidizes busing for students coming from rural and underserved areas.
$452,249 spent19% of program spendingThe museum offers a steady stream of high quality educational programs led by dynamic and experienced educators, and including date nights, walking tours, lectures and hands on activities, to thousands of people per year. The vast majority of moi programming is offered at no or low cost to participants. Monthly programs little learners and discovery day, as well as annual events such as stem day at the museum are offered at no cost. Scholarships allow dozens of students from underserved populations to attend summer day camps and nights at the musuem, a semi-annual sleepover event for grades 3-6, for only 5-10 per student. For adults, the twice monthly museum club lecture series is offered at 5 each for public and at no cost for moi members. The museum also offers-sharp discounts to its educator summer camps for teachers who work in title I schools. Moi offers special spanish language days with discounted admission and is currently translatingits exhibit material into spanish and working with local spanish language groups to determine the preferred method of delivery. The Museum of Idaho works with local families and agences and has designed numerous programs tailored to learners…
$184,088 spent8% of program spendingMuseum staff and volunteers care for more than 100,000 documents, photographs, objects and specimen relevant to idaho's heritage, and make those items and stories available to researchers. The museum also cares for a significant nearby archaeological site and the 80,000+ artifacts that have come out of it, and facilities academic research on the collection.
$8,988 spent0% of program spendingNot available
$1,676,841 spent72% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,322,166.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $8.3M to $10M (+23%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 45% · 2022 36% · 2023 19% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Joseph Giebel
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $188k → $264k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 OF IDAHO’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 IDAHO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 IDAHO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 96% · 2019 50% · 2020 57% · 2021 40% · 2022 68% · 2023 70% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of MUSEUM OF IDAHO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 86% 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
85% of MUSEUM OF IDAHO's grant income comes from Idaho funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 MUSEUM OF IDAHO receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $462k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$290k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$172k
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 OF IDAHO
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 Idaho
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 IDAHO?
- MUSEUM OF IDAHO (Idaho) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,773,554 to it, the largest being Greg Carr Foundation Inc ($2,962,738). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF IDAHO have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $5,773,554 in grants to MUSEUM OF IDAHO, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF IDAHO?
- Greg Carr Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,962,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF IDAHO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Idaho. 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 21 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