Colorado · Nonprofit
RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM
RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 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 FY2024
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5
- Net assets
- $94k
What Rifle Creek Museum does
Mission
Historical Preservation with primary focus on Rifle Colorado but extending to Garfield County State of Colorado and western migration in 1800s.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Acquistion of improvement of and or storage of historical exhibits artifacts photographs recorded oral and written histories and miscellaneous informational items such as catalogues magazines and books. The museum is supervised by a volunteer board of directors and managed by volunteers on a daily basis. Volunteer hours for keeping the museum open this year were not recorded this year but the museum was open a total of 110 days with 2 volunteers working each day. Expenses incurred to open the museum to the public include utilities & maintenance and display & exhibit acquisition and maintenance at a minimum.
$0 spentVolunteer hours for keeping the museum open this year were not recorded this year but the museum was open a total of 110 days with 2 volunteers working each day. There is no expense associated with the volunteer staffing on a daily basis. Benefits to volunteers include an annual appreciation dinner. 718 patrons visited the museum during 2024.
$0 spentThe museum sponsored 3 winter programs at the library Rifle Heritage Days at the Ute Theater and Voices in the Dark at the museum itself to promote history of the area and its people. This has included character sketches guest speakers and a contra dance. This benefits the community with education and entertainment. The museum did not net any income over expenses from this programs.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $85k to $90k (+6%).
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.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Gayle Hiener
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
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 RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM’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 RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM'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. $5 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 RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM?
- RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($5). 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 RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5 in grants to RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RIFLE CREEK MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), 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