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ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,600 to it, the largest being WESTERN SHADE CLOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION A NEVADA NONPROFIT CORP ($11,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$81k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$471k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What St Lucas Historical Society does

Mission

Provide research center and other community/educational uses with contributions made to preserve and restore st. Luke's school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Repairs/maintenance on buildings under organization's control to provide research opportunities and venue for community events.

    $53,123 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $53,123.

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 ($82k) Expenses 100 ($26k) Net assets 100 ($321k)2021 Revenue 83 ($68k) Expenses 155 ($40k) Net assets 109 ($348k)2022 Revenue 78 ($63k) Expenses 174 ($45k) Net assets 114 ($367k)2023 Revenue 231 ($189k) Expenses 148 ($38k) Net assets 161 ($517k)2024 Revenue 86 ($70k) Expenses 621 ($160k) Net assets 133 ($427k)2025 Revenue 99 ($81k) Expenses 219 ($57k) Net assets 147 ($471k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (99)Expenses (219)Net assets (147)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 $367k to $517k (+41%).

$321k
$348k
$367k
$517k
$427k
$471k
202020212022202320242025
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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 5% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’20
$28k
’21
$18k
’22
$150k
’23
−$90k
’24
$25k
’25
57
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.

202320242025
Listed151415
Joined·+9+1
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $7k.

From the IRS filings of ST LUCAS 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.

Where its funders are

ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 1 state in all.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve56.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like ST LUCAS 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 Iowa

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,600 to it, the largest being WESTERN SHADE CLOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION A NEVADA NONPROFIT CORP ($11,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,600 in grants to ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
WESTERN SHADE CLOTH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION A NEVADA NONPROFIT CORP is the largest funder on record, with $11,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ST LUCAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 1 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