Minnesota · Nonprofit
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,064,214 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,574,620). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $5.8M
What Ramsey County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
Preserving our past, informing our present, inspiring our future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections & exhibitions collections acquisitions: 57 individuals donated 890 books, 86.25 linear feet of archival materials, 534 photos, 42 artifacts to the rchs collections. A large collection of labor history books and archival materials were donated by the estate of david j. Riehle.mary livingston griggs & mary griggs burke research center: 1394 researchers were assisted in the research center. Photographs available online on the rchs website: 32,358.exhibitions: selma 70. The history of the civil rights movement and the stories of a group of 70 pilgrims from minnesota who traveled from saint paul to selma, alabama for the 50th anniversary of bloody sunday in march of 2015. In-person at the rchs gallery, landmark center, st. Paul mn from april 2025 through may 2026.march of the governors. Series of exhibit panels about each minnesota governor, in conjunction with the podcast series. In-person at the rchs gallery, landmark center, st. Paul mn from july 1, 2024-march 2025.linked in friendship, connected in service: 50 years of the minneapolis/st. Paul (mn) chapter of the links, incorporated 1972-2022. (online with no end date anticipated.)persistence: continuing the struggle…
$452,082 spent$12,894 earned by the program40% of program spendingGibbs farmat gibbs farm, 12,616 students visited the site for a field trip, and 597 children attended summer camp. Off-site and digital programming reached 1,927 more students. 2,790 educators and family chaperones attended a field trip alongside student groups.public hour tours were attended by 604 adults and children. Seventeen programs were presented that served adults and multi-generational audiences reaching 1,557 people. These programs included winter crafting classes, a minnesota sinfonia concert, apple festival, a halloween trick or treat trail, homeschool day event, and site gardens and grounds tours.volunteers contributed 2,365 hours towards site grounds care (gardens and orchard), animal care, interning at summer camp, and more. Gibbs farm partnered with several organizations to provide programs to visitors including the bell museum, mn seed, the minnesota horticultural society, minnesota sinfonia, and dakhta ipi okhdakihiye
$577,726 spent$173,904 earned by the program51% of program spendingMagazine and publications: rchs published four issues of ramsey county history magazine during fiscal year 2025. Rchs received one publishing award from the minnesota alliance of local history museums for the a sacred dakhta site inspires community renewal: from lower phalen creek project to waka tipi awayakapi issue (volume 58, number 3).the magazine introduced new features like additional reading links and "in our collection," featuring pieces curated by director of collections and exhibits and photography and copy from youa vang.volume 59, number 3: summer 2024- rondo recreation in the st. Croix river valley, 1909-1977; author: haley prochnow- a family reclaims its heritage growing up with anne belle rideaux; author: cherrelle swain- violet gould's operetta school; author: christine podas-larsonvolume 59, number 4: fall 2024- growing up on the empire builder; author: john w. Diers- communist clarence hathaway and his powerful impact on minnesota politics; author: jim mccartney- the everyday activism of the north central voters league in st. Paul; author: adam bledsoevolume 60, number 1: winter 2025- the women who have shaped the ramsey county historical society; authors: andrea…
$113,882 spent$72,789 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,143,690.
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 2022 to 2023, from $5.7M to $6.8M (+19%).
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 14% · 2018 22% · 2019 19% · 2020 12% · 2021 34% · 2022 17% · 2023 40% · 2024 27% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Chad Roberts
President & CEO
Board chair
Robert Mairs
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $174k → $414k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 63% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 17% — 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.
How long its funders stay
55% of RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $611k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$329k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$282k
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 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,064,214 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($1,574,620). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,064,214 in grants to RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,574,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 32 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