California · Nonprofit
Novato Historical Guild
Novato Historical Guild (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,132 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,132). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Novato Historical Guild does
Mission
The Novato Historical Guild's mission is to collect, preserve and make reasonably available to the public, exhibits and information related to the historical and social development of the Novato valley, Hamilton Field and the adjacent North Marin Area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Novato Historical Guild was founded in 1976 to collect and preserve the historical objects, archives and stories of Novato and northern Marin County, and to make those items available to the public through exhibits and educational programming. The Guild operates two museums: Downtown Novato Museum and Hamilton Field History Museum. The Guild is responsible for coordinating volunteer efforts in order to maintain professionally operated facilities.
$21,280 spent100% of program spendingThe historical guild is researching a more appropriate and accessible facility and has incurred legal and pre-construction costs in determining the feasibility of a relocation.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,280.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $520k to $2.1M (+308%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Jim Crumpler
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Novato Historical Guild’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Novato Historical Guild'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Organizations like Novato Historical Guild
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 Novato Historical Guild: 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 Novato Historical Guild?
- Novato Historical Guild (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,132 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($12,132). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Novato Historical Guild have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,132 in grants to Novato Historical Guild.
- Who is the largest funder of Novato Historical Guild?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,132 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Novato Historical Guild find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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