Indiana · Nonprofit
SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM
SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $138k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $58k
- Net assets
- $302k
What Santa's Elves & Santa Claus Museum does
Mission
Preserve, interpret, and exhibit the cultural and natural history of the town of santa claus, indiana and to perpetuate the tradition of santa's elves, inc answering letters to santa
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Donated remodeled, rent free space valued at 9,250 to operate a museum which displays artifacts, historical items, data and memorabilia relating to the town of santa claus, indiana. Share the history of the tradition of answering letters children write to santa claus and display those letters from years ago. Provide a location for volunteers to answer the childrens' letters and tourists' questions about the area.
$102,602 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,602.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $266k to $302k (+13%).
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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income held at $14k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS 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
SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
55% 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'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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
55% of SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS 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. Of the $26k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $32k 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 SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
78%
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 SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM?
- SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM (Indiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,200 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC ($32,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $58,200 in grants to SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ALLIANCE INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANTA'S ELVES & SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 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