Kansas · Nonprofit
SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION
SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($68,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $266k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $69k
- Net assets
- $247k
What Santa Fe Trail Association does
Mission
Preservation of the santa fe trail
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Santa Fe Trail Association creates exhibits in kansas, missouri, oklahoma, colorado and new mexico to highlight important locations along the santa fe trail. These exhibits contain markers informing the public of the trail and its significance to american history. These exhibits will be viewed by thousands of visitors. The association also provides for the distribution of funds to provide scholarly research concerning the trail. These services include some amounts which are supported and reimbursed by the national park service.
$93,804 spent41% of program spendingTo seek public exposure of its goals and activities in order to create public awareness, support, scholarly documentations & concern for the preservation of the historical santa fe trail
$134,735 spent59% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $228,539.
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 2021 to 2022, from $220k to $270k (+23%).
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.
98% of SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $59k → $26.
1 of 4 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 SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION’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
SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION 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
99% 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 SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 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
SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $163 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
SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION 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
Government funding SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.8M
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 SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION: 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 SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION?
- SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,316 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($68,200). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $69,316 in grants to SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA FE TRAIL ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 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