Connecticut · Nonprofit
ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC
ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,873 to it, the largest being THE PUTNAM AREA FOUNDATION ($8,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $79k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $41k
What Aspinock Historical Society of Putnam Inc does
Mission
AHS preserves the history of Putnam and the area as known prior to Putnam's Incorporation in 1855, starting in 1693. We dispaly and educate through our three museums: Cady Copp Cottage, Gertrude Chandler Warner Box Car Museum and the Aspinock Museum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The Aspinock Museum provided tours for the public and organized a museum tour for over 125 Putnam and Scotland CT third graders.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe Box car museum track was replaced which provides a stable foundation for the box car for years to come. The museum provided tours for over 500 people during the year.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants100% of program spendingAHS honored two residents for their distinction for shaping Putnam's hisory. Appoximately 100 were in attendance.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $20,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $42k to $41k (−2%).
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.
100% of ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $14k.
From the IRS filings of ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM 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
ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
33% 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 ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC's grant income comes from Connecticut 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.
Against its field
ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC
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In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC?
- ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,873 to it, the largest being THE PUTNAM AREA FOUNDATION ($8,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,873 in grants to ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC?
- THE PUTNAM AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2024–2025), 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