California · Nonprofit
RANCHO OBI-WAN INC
RANCHO OBI-WAN INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,102 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($85,440). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $-136993
What Rancho Obi-Wan Inc does
Mission
Rancho obi-wan is a cultural institution whose purpose is to inspire and serve the world through the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of star wars memorabilia and artifacts. Using these objects we provide meaningful educational, aesthetic, intellectual and cultural experiences for a wide array of audiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Rancho obi-wan is a publicly supported, nonprofit museum in petaluma, california that houses the worlds largest star wars memorabilia collection, as certified by guinness world records in 2014. Our mission is to serve the world through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of star wars memorabilia and artifacts, using the collection to provide meaningful educational, aesthetic, intellectual and cultural experiences for a wide array of audiences and to carry out other charitable and educational activities associated with this goal.our museum program includes giving docent-led tours. Paid tours are scheduled in advance from our website and are conducted mostly on saturdays or other days as docents are available. Free tours for school groups are offered and donations of tours to help other charities fundraise are managed on a case-by-case basis. During tours docents discuss the history of particular items, the cultural impact of star wars, and ways to participate in various star wars related communities. They also explore the history and techniques of movie-making, describe different styles of art and art traditions of different countries, and offer suggestions…
$219,578 spent$58,517 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $219,578.
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 2020 to 2021, from $151k to $534k (+253%).
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 5% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of RANCHO OBI-WAN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $70 → $966.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 RANCHO OBI-WAN INC’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
RANCHO OBI-WAN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 RANCHO OBI-WAN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of RANCHO OBI-WAN INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
RANCHO OBI-WAN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RANCHO OBI-WAN 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 RANCHO OBI-WAN 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 RANCHO OBI-WAN INC?
- RANCHO OBI-WAN INC (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,102 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($85,440). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RANCHO OBI-WAN INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $98,102 in grants to RANCHO OBI-WAN INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RANCHO OBI-WAN INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $85,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RANCHO OBI-WAN INC 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.
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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 6 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