Indiana · Nonprofit
STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC
STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,839 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($110,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $637k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Studebaker National Museum Inc does
Mission
To be a center for the interpretation of history, design, and innovation that connects and inspires the community and enthusiasts around the world. This is accomplished through programming, active collecting, and the display of vehicles, archival materials, and artifacts that showcase the local and global influence of studebaker and related industrial innovators.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To collect, preserve and interpret a collection of vehicles, archives, and artifacts that tell the story of the studebaker corporation and industrial history of the south bend region. In 2023, the museum collection consists of 135 historic vehicles, which include eight vehicles designated as national treasures. The collection also includes more than 6,000 objects, 70 tons of studebaker corporate archival material, and 150 hands-on educational objects. Our facilities are comprised of more than 35,000 square feet of exhibition space and 10,000 square feet of storage space. Staff members curate new permanent collection displays, temporary exhibitions, and educational programming which provide context and relevance for our guests. Each year, the museum welcomes more than 40,000 guests through its doors and reaches millions of people through its digital programming. The museum is committed to ensuring equitable access to its world-class collection and programming days through programs like "museums for all", "blue star museums", and a number of free community days per year.
$951,294 spent$691,717 earned by the program99% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$8,149 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $959,443.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $2.8M (+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.
51% of STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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 broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $8k → $173k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC’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
STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
57% 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 STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 37% · 2019 26% · 2020 61% · 2021 34% · 2022 18% · 2023 58% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC'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 $293k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $344k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states 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
STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC
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.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Studebaker Natl Museum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC: 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 STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC?
- STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $636,839 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($110,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $636,839 in grants to STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC 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 STUDEBAKER NATIONAL MUSEUM INC 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 29 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