Virginia · Nonprofit
Alleghany Historical Society
Alleghany Historical Society (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,786 to it, the largest being ALLEGHANY FOUNDATION ($273,267). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $291k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Alleghany Historical Society does
Mission
The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Historical Society has purchased an historical home and three historical buildings in downtown Covington that will house a discovery museum and the offices of Olde Town Covington. Additional organizations can be housed in the historical home.
$156,180 spentof which $45,584 as grants$79,840 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $156,180.
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 2018 to 2019, from $737k to $1.4M (+95%).
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. 4 of the last 7 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $59k.
From the IRS filings of Alleghany Historical Society’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
Alleghany Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of Alleghany Historical Society's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Alleghany Historical Society
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Alleghany Historical Society: 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 Alleghany Historical Society?
- Alleghany Historical Society (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,786 to it, the largest being ALLEGHANY FOUNDATION ($273,267). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alleghany Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $290,786 in grants to Alleghany Historical Society, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alleghany Historical Society?
- ALLEGHANY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $273,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alleghany Historical Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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