Washington · Nonprofit
WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,609 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW ($1,391,456). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center does
Mission
To gather, engage, and educate people to celebrate and preserve the history, arts, sciences, and rich diversity of our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community-the museum is a staging area for concerts, tours, workshops, lectures, and other special events, that benefit the general community and groups within the community. In 2024 the museum presented 215 programs for the public serving approximately 33,517 visitors.
$819,749 spent59% of program spendingEducation-the museum operates as a support organization troughout north central washington for the presentation of educational programs related to cultural and historic matters. There were 43 education programs during 2022.there were approximately 3,500 participants in these programs.
$319,563 spent23% of program spendingExhibits-the museum prepares and presents historical and cultural exhibits. Throughout 2024 the museum presented 12 temporary on-site exhibits serving approximately 10,960 visitors.
$250,093 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,389,405.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.9M to $13M (+161%).
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 50% · 2018 50% · 2019 44% · 2020 56% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 22% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Marriah Thornock
Exec. Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $15k → $229k.
7 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & 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
WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 89% · 2022 92% · 2023 77% — 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
25% of WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
85% of WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & 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 $284k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $160k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$100k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$50k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,609 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW ($1,391,456). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,866,609 in grants to WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW is the largest funder on record, with $1,391,456 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WENATCHEE VALLEY MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 19 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