Minnesota · Nonprofit
NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC
NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,173 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($199,261). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Norwegian-American Historical Assoc does
Mission
The mission of the Norwegian-American Historical Association (naha) is to inspire connections to norwegian-american experiences through discovery, scholarship, and stewardship. To achieve this goal, we maintain an active acquisitions program focusing on materials related to norwegian-american immigration, immigrants and their descendants. In addition to maintaining the largest archive of norwegian-american life, we maintain an active publications program to encourage scholarship and hold regular events for our members and the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership: naha's primary membership activities include hosting educational events and tours. We also produce a quarterly print newsletter to inform and educate members about our collections and topics related to norwegian-american immigration history. In 2024, we held three events. In march, gunnar nerheim, university of stavanger professor emeritus of modern history, spoke about his book, norsemen deep in the heart of texas: norwegian immigrants 1845-1900. The free event was co-hosted by norway house. In august, naha partnered with st. Olaf alumni travel for "norway: a thousand years of migration." this 10-day tour explored how people have been on the move to, from, and within norway over the past millennium, changing the course of transatlantic history. Beginning in stavanger, the group traveled north to the migration centers of bergen and trondheim, with additional stops in stiklestad and snsa. In october, nearly a hundred members enjoyed our biennial member meeting at st. Olaf college. The day included three presentations, a book launch, a nordic-themed lunch, news from naha leadership, and election of new board members. Recordings are available of our biennial presentations…
$69,496 spentof which $4,500 as grants27% of program spendingArchives: naha continues to actively collect and preserve materials related to the norwegian-american experience. In 2024, we hosted 55 visiting researchers from the united states, canada, and norway, to our reading room, worked with student interns and classes at st. Olaf college, digitized 17,516 primary source materials, and welcomed 60 new donations to our collections. We received a generous grant for 297,303 from the national endowment for the humanities (neh) to preserve, digitize, and make accessible five collections that document the relief efforts of norwegian-americans for occupied norway during world war ii. (unfortunately, the funding was rescinded in april of 2025 as part of doge federal cost-cutting efforts.) we received two additional grants: one from sons of norway foundation to digitize 274 oral histories and a minnesota legacy grant to rehouse naha institutional records.
$103,758 spent41% of program spendingPsa 3 publication: in the fall of 2024, naha released volume 42 of our scholarly journal, norwegian-american studies, published in cooperation with the university of minnesota press. The journal is dedicated to showcasing the best work in the field of norwegian-american studies, including the related disciplines of history, literature, religion, art, and cultural studies. In addition to several peer-reviewed articles, the journal includes photographic features, book reviews, works-in-progress, and updates on teaching, learning, and researching in the field of norwegian-american studies. In addition to our print edition, free digital access to the journal and all past issues are available to naha members on project muse digital library. Naha also distributed to its members "muus vs muus: the scandal that shook norwegian america," a co-publication with minnesota historical society press.
$80,938 spent32% of program spendingFellowships, awards, and internships: in 2024, naha awarded two fellowships. The naha archives fellowship encourages research that primarily focuses on the naha collections. The naha publications fellowship will stimulate scholarship in the field of norwegian-american studies that results in a publishable manuscript. Each year, naha offers internships for students to pursue their interests and gain practical experience in archives, public history, and nonprofit management.
$400 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $254,592.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.3M to $3.6M (−15%).
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 17% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
35% of NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $43k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC’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
NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 84% — 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
50% of NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC'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 $200k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $201k 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.
Against its field
NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $297k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$297k
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.
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC?
- NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC (Minnesota) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,173 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($199,261). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $400,173 in grants to NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $199,261 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORWEGIAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC find more funders?
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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 7 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