Minnesota · Nonprofit
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,774 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($894,926). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $896k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Sacred Heart Area Historical Society does
Mission
To collect, preserve, and disseminate knowledge about the history of the sacred heart area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Restoration of hotel sacred heart. In 2013, the Sacred Heart Area Historical Society (shahs) purchased the historic 1914 building once known as the best little hotel between the twin cities and aberdeen, south dakota, along the milwaukee railroad. Grants are being obtained and work is being performeed to restore the building and repurpose for assisted senior living with shared community amenities. Hotel sacred heart is listed on the national register of historical places. Operation and maintenance of the sacred heart area museum. The society collects, preserves, and shares history of the sacred heart area since incorporating in 1997. The museum is located in a former church building in sacred heart, western renville county. It is highly visible along highway 212, the yellowstone trail. The society serves approximately 400 members from across the united states. Museum visitors include genealogists, historians, tourists, and students of all age groups. Approximately 3,000 people benefit at the museum and off-site outreach. The shahs strives io include diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in the workplace and community.
$16,338 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $16,338.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $811k to $1.2M (+48%).
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: 2020 76% · 2021 52% · 2022 82% · 2023 62% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Sacred Heart Area Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $48k → $298k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Sacred Heart Area Historical Society’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
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Sacred Heart Area Historical Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of Sacred Heart Area Historical Society's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98 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.
Against its field
Sacred Heart Area Historical Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding Sacred Heart Area Historical Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$50k
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 Sacred Heart Area Historical Society
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sacred Heart Area Historical Society: 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 Sacred Heart Area Historical Society?
- Sacred Heart Area Historical Society (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $895,774 to it, the largest being MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ($894,926). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sacred Heart Area Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $895,774 in grants to Sacred Heart Area Historical Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sacred Heart Area Historical Society?
- MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $894,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sacred Heart Area Historical Society 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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