Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE DURHAM MUSEUM
THE DURHAM MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,742,383 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,583,440). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 73
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $16M
What The Durham Museum does
Mission
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historical building maintenance: maintained and cared for the museum's building. The building is a national historical landmark.
$1,917,786 spent47% of program spendingExhibits: built and displayed 3 major exhibitions for 237,999 visitors and facility rentals.
$998,057 spent$1,254,813 earned by the program25% of program spendingEducation: provided 42,535 people with guided tours of the museum facilities and programs related to history. Also provided programming to 50,911 people virtually.
$594,300 spent$219,114 earned by the program15% of program spendingCollections and archival photograpy: maintained records and cared for the museum's collection of 56,256 historic artifacts and assisted in historic research of these artifacts. Cared for 369,114 photos and negatives of historic value. Events: provide community events relating to the museum, its collections, and exhibits.
$527,873 spent$283,925 earned by the program13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,038,016.
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 2018 to 2019, from $11M to $14M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of THE DURHAM MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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 9 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.
Chief executive
Christi Janssen
Executive director
Board chair
Rodrigo Lopez
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 40 funders, grant income fell $1.3M → $1.2M.
8 of 73 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.6M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Durham Museum Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE DURHAM MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of THE DURHAM MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 73 funders by total. 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
THE DURHAM MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 32% · 2019 38% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 13% · 2023 20% — 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
61% of THE DURHAM MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
92% of THE DURHAM MUSEUM's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $704k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
THE DURHAM MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE DURHAM MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$750k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$251k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$175k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE DURHAM MUSEUM
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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Durham Museum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE DURHAM 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 THE DURHAM MUSEUM?
- THE DURHAM MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 73 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,742,383 to it, the largest being THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION ($2,583,440). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE DURHAM MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 73 organizations giving $12,742,383 in grants to THE DURHAM MUSEUM, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE DURHAM MUSEUM?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,583,440 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE DURHAM MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 73 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing