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PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION

PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,013 to it, the largest being PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($236,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$808k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$451k
Net assets
$1.5M
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Porter Co Museum Corporation does

Mission

Provide for the preservation and display of historical items related to local history and to serve as an educational and teaching resource for schools, students and visitors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Museum exhibits and displays

    $120,921 spent
    93% of program spending
  2. Museum exhibits & displays

    $8,598 spent
    7% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $129,519.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($209k) Expenses 100 ($221k) Net assets 100 ($853k)2023 Revenue 140 ($293k) Expenses 104 ($230k) Net assets 107 ($916k)2024 Revenue 143 ($299k) Expenses 104 ($230k) Net assets 115 ($985k)2025 Revenue 387 ($808k) Expenses 130 ($286k) Net assets 177 ($1.5M)
2022202320242025
Revenue (387)Expenses (130)Net assets (177)Peer revenue range

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 $985k to $1.5M (+53%).

$853k
$916k
$985k
$1.5M
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’22
$63k
’23
$69k
’24
$522k
’25
8.7
months of
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

Joanne Urschel

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed10141312
Joined·+4+2+0
No longer listed·031
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $48k.

4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION’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

PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

57% 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 PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION.

53%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 88% · 2019 56% · 2020 63% · 2021 82% · 2022 83% · 2023 75% — 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

57% of PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION'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 $196k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Indiana funders.

IN

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Indiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)57% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 67%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IN

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Questions and answers

Who funds PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION?
PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION (Indiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $451,013 to it, the largest being PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($236,903). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $451,013 in grants to PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION?
PORTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $236,903 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PORTER CO MUSEUM CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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