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STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC

STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,635 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($711,542). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.2M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$868k
Net assets
$5.8M
1/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Sturgeon Bay Historical Society Foundation Inc does

Mission

Sturgeon bay historical society foundation, inc. Is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving sturgeon bay's living history, which defines community character and cultural evolution, for future generations through advocacy, preservation and education. The organization achieves this by saving, restoring, repurposing and sharing the story of sturgeon bay's authentic historic structures.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Sturgeon bay historical society foundation, inc. Is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving sturgeon bay's living history, which defines community character and cultural evolution, for future generations through advocacy, preservation and education. The organization achieves this by saving, restoring, repurposing and sharing the story of sturgeon bay's authentic historic structures. The door county granary --- an iconic, port grain elevator --- creates an authentic, immersive experience that celebrates our agricultural history and inspires our future. Our nationally-recognized granary will cultivate community, education, research and creativity.

    $102,025 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,025.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6k) Expenses 100 ($151) Net assets 100 ($6k)2018 Revenue 1086 ($70k) Expenses 47464 ($72k) Net assets 73 ($5k)2019 Revenue 7378 ($475k) Expenses 319587 ($483k) Net assets -40 ($-2516)2020 Revenue 5574 ($359k) Expenses 3895 ($6k) Net assets 14338 ($902k)2021 Revenue 47 ($3k) Expenses 7779 ($12k) Net assets 14200 ($894k)2022 Revenue 17846 ($1.2M) Expenses 60639 ($92k) Net assets 38599 ($2.4M)2023 Revenue 6096 ($393k) Expenses 50674 ($77k) Net assets 43626 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 50213 ($3.2M) Expenses 109244 ($165k) Net assets 92422 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (50213)Expenses (109244)Net assets (92422)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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $6.4M (+130%).

$6k
$5k
$6k
$958k
$898k
$2.5M
$2.8M
$6.4M
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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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 53% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
’18
−$7k
’19
$353k
’20
−$9k
’21
$1.1M
’22
$316k
’23
$3.1M
’24
10
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Listed789899911
Joined·+3+3+2+4+5+1+4
No longer listed·2233512
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $309k → $13k.

4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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

STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

94% 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 STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC.

82%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% · 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

94% of STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION 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 $51k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Wisconsin funders.

WI
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $817k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin95% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve10.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)143% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 19%Fundraising 19%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $867,635 to it, the largest being DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($711,542). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $867,635 in grants to STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC?
DOOR COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $711,542 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STURGEON BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 6 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