Michigan · Nonprofit
THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,199 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,064,010). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER's revenue fell 57% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/Stjosephlocal
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio match
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 1% · 2018 28% · 2019 23% · 2020 68% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $145k → $184k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER’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
THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 87% · 2020 88% · 2021 96% · 2022 87% · 2023 95% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
81% of THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER'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 $257k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lakeland Health Foundation Benton Harbor/StjosephlocalMI · funds 32 organizations near you
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The NBK Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Myriad Consulting and Training Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Science-Technology Centers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER?
- THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,331,199 to it, the largest being BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,064,010). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,331,199 in grants to THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER?
- BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,064,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing