New York · Nonprofit
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,560 to it, the largest being CENTURY ARTS FOUNDATION ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $280k
What Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum does
Mission
The sag harbor whaling and historical museum operates as a nonprofit museum for the purpose of providing access to a museum dedicated to the history of the community. In particular, its history as a whaling port and how this significantly impacted the whaling industry.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
As educator and steward, the sag harbor whaling and historical museuem preserves the diverse history of sag harbor during and after its period of whaling. Through educational programming, exhibitions and lectures, and through partnerships with other institutions. Our mission is to enhance the public's understanding of sag harbor's rich maritime and cultural history, through collections, artifacts and documents that inspire, enrich and stimulate everyone that enters the museum.
$162,399 spent$164,616 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $162,399.
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 2017 to 2018, from $416k to $368k (−12%).
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 6% · 2018 13% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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 narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $36k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 99% · 2019 90% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $112,560 to it, the largest being CENTURY ARTS FOUNDATION ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $112,560 in grants to SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- CENTURY ARTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAG HARBOR WHALING & HISTORICAL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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