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YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC
YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,669 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($212,500). 6 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $658k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Yakima Valley Museum & Historical Assoc does
Mission
The Yakima Valley Museum preserves the rich history and unique culture of the Yakima Valley and makes history accessible to all audiences through operations of the museum, collecting and stewarding artifacts, presenting exhibits and public programs, and providing educational opportunities that reflect all members of the community. The Museum attracts visitors locally and those traveling through the region and serves students from around the Yakima Valley in different grade levels with engaging educational opportunities. The Yakima Valley Museum also continues the legacy of Justice William O. Douglas through public programs and exhibitions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Yakima Valley Museum is a regional history museum that tells the stories of the Central Washington region through robust permanent and special exhibitions that showcase artifacts to educate audiences about our past, presentation of public programs related to regional history and culture, and collection and preservation of the Yakima Valley's material culture.
$443,734 spent$98,108 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $443,734.
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 $9.5M to $11M (+12%).
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 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $27k → $92k.
5 of 8 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 YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC’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
YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 76% · 2020 89% · 2021 47% · 2022 45% · 2023 28% — 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
83% of YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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 YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC'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 $123k that is directly attributable, 55% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC
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
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC?
- YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $657,669 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($212,500). 6 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 YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $657,669 in grants to YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $212,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YAKIMA VALLEY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ASSOC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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