Missouri · Nonprofit
WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC
WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,532 to it, the largest being W J BRACE CHARITABLE TRUST ($203,274). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $439k
- Net assets
- $441k
What Watkins Mill Association Inc does
Mission
Founded in 1958, the Watkins Mill Association is true to its Mission: Proactively support the preservation and living history of Watkins Woolen Mill Historic Site.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Watkins Mill Association (WMA) proactively supports the preservation and living history of Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site. Watkins Mill is the last textile mill in the United States with its original machinery still intact. The Association promoted the Mill to be recognized by the United States Department of Interior as a National Historical Landmark (1966, 2024), the National Register of Historic Places (1966), a Clay County Historic Landmark (1976), and a National Mechanical Engineering Landmark (1980). WMA turned the Historic Site into a destination, restoring Watkins' Home, Mill, Chapel, one-room Schoolhouse and farm buildings. It worked. Watkins Mill is now the region's premier historic attraction. WMA is still emerging from COVID-19's effects, which clearly presented challenges. Watkins Mill was one of four State Parks completely closed in 2020. Volunteers, the basis for successful operations, were deprived of the work they love, as Park and Historic Site access and events were necessarily cancelled. The Association met these challenges head-on, have resumed popular group activities, and are now rebuilding our base of Volunteer Tour Guides: Financially, we fought a…
$116,648 spent$2,465 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $116,648.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $329k to $445k (+35%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $26k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION 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
WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 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
WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC?
- WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,532 to it, the largest being W J BRACE CHARITABLE TRUST ($203,274). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $438,532 in grants to WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC?
- W J BRACE CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $203,274 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 5 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