Indiana · Nonprofit
SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC
SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,562 to it, the largest being KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($19,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $50k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $268k
What Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum Inc does
Mission
To preserve items which relate to families, businesses and industries of the syracuse-wawasee area and which will serve to foster a better understanding of people and events which have made the community what it is today.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Preservation of items for historical value and presentation to visitors of syracuse-wawasee historical museum.
$7,955 spent25% of program spendingPreservation of items for historical value and presentation to visitors of the syracuse-wawasee historical museum.
$24,486 spent75% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $32,441.
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.
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 $189k to $252k (+33%).
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.
76% of SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $9k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL 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
SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL 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 SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC?
- SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,562 to it, the largest being KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($19,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $45,562 in grants to SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC?
- KOSCIUSKO COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYRACUSE-WAWASEE HISTORICAL 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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