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SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM

SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,075 to it, the largest being GRIGG-LEWIS FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$203k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$412k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Somerset Union Museum does

Mission

Museum

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. renovation of building

    $241,396 spent
    95% of program spending
  2. Acquisitions of antiques for the museum collection

    $11,820 spent
    5% of program spending
  3. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $253,216.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2022 Revenue 252 ($57k) Expenses 141 ($83k) Net assets 97 ($49k)2023 Revenue 1955 ($442k) Expenses 143 ($84k) Net assets 776 ($393k)2024 Revenue 751 ($170k) Expenses 141 ($83k) Net assets 946 ($479k)2025 Revenue 897 ($203k) Expenses 429 ($253k) Net assets 813 ($412k)
20202022202320242025
Revenue (897)Expenses (429)Net assets (813)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $49k to $393k (+701%).

$51k
$49k
$393k
$479k
$412k
20202022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 9% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’20
−$26k
’22
$357k
’23
$86k
’24
−$50k
’25
0.2
months of
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.

20232025
Listed77
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SOMERSET UNION 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

SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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

33% 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 SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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 SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)55% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

27%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOMERSET UNION 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 SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM?
SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM (New York) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,075 to it, the largest being GRIGG-LEWIS FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,075 in grants to SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM.
Who is the largest funder of SOMERSET UNION MUSEUM?
GRIGG-LEWIS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOMERSET UNION 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.

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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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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