California · Nonprofit
SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC
SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,622 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($74,780). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $105k
- Net assets
- $837k
What Sacramento History Alliance Inc does
Mission
The Mission of the Sacramento History Alliance, Inc. is to work in partnership with the City of Sacramento, the State of California, property owners, merchants and other stakeholders in their common goal of improving Old Sacramento State Historic Park as a local, regional and national historic and cultural asset by preserving and protecting the historic district, and conducting successful interpretive, historical and entertainment programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Sacramento History Museum's program mission is to explore, interpret and display the region's history from the days before the California Gold Rush to the present. This diverse, and at times dramatic history unfolds throughout the Museum's galleries. The Sacramento History Museum also offers the perfect starting point for exploring Old Sacramento State Historic Park and for understanding how the area developed and grew to the vibrant community it is today. This existing museum program has expanded dramatically due to the City of Sacramento's grant and usage of the city building facilities located in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Patronage of The Sacramento History Museum has increased significantly to approximately 57,000 visitors in the current fiscal year.
$556,019 spent$204,368 earned by the program43% of program spendingThe Historic Education Program is designed to broaden the historic experience for visitors to Old Sacramento. This includes self-guided tour booklets, informative signs near the Sacramento River, historical scripts for horse-carriage drivers and period dress for the horse-carriage drivers. The program works with the City of Sacramento in the creation of a newsletter and web site to inform the general public of Sacramento's history during the period 1849 to 1870. A history summer camp is provided for children ages 8-12 years of age and during the academic school year School Groups are provided educational programs which cover a variety of historical topics related to early California history. Adult Groups are also provided educational programs which cover similar historical topics mentioned above.
$282,920 spent$117,005 earned by the program22% of program spendingThe Old Sacramento Underground Tours Program was added to enhance and broaden the historic experience for visitors to the Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Guided tours are provided to visitors who are given an introduction to early Sacramento and then are escorted beneath several Old Sacramento historic buildings to see excavated building foundations, exposed brick retaining walls, and Sacramento's famous "hollow sidewalks". In prior fiscal years, expenditures were incurred in order to make structural and safety improvements to Old Sacramento Historic Buildings, construct pedestrian walkways, install lighting fixtures, and improve handicap accessibility to the historic buildings. Patronage of The Old Sacramento Underground Tours Program was well received and served approximately 16,500 visitors in the current fiscal year.
$178,600 spent$323,520 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe Old Sacramento History Program includes historical events in Old Sacramento State Historic Park. Historical Events such as living history days, walking tours and architectural tours help to increase visitor participation and enjoyment of Historical Old Sacramento.
$158,185 spent$24,678 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe Sacramento Visitors Center program provides information for the historic Old Sacramento Waterfront district as well as the greater Sacramento area. The information available for visitors includes area & district maps, educational exhibits, artifact displays, and interactive experiences. Information is available for the various tours, educational programs, and tickets for these activities may be purchased at the Sacramento Visitors Center. This Sacramento Visitors Center program enhances the visibility and promotes the visitation of the historic Old Sacramento Waterfront district. The Visitors Center has served several thousand tourists during this current fiscal year.
$121,937 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,297,661.
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 $773k to $1.2M (+54%).
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 42% · 2019 38% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 42% · 2023 29% · 2024 29% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE 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. 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.
Chief executive
Delta Pick Mello
Exec. Dir./CEO
Board chair
Robert Ceccato
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $34k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE 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
SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 90% · 2023 70% — 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
72% of SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE 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 $29k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC?
- SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,622 to it, the largest being Sacramento Region Community Foundation ($74,780). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $104,622 in grants to SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC?
- Sacramento Region Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $74,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE 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 7 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