Vermont · Nonprofit
BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,900 to it, the largest being THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($19,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Vermont Council on the Arts Inclocalportfolio match
- The Windham Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Thomas Thompson Trustlocal
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.
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 99% · 2018 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $850.
From the IRS filings of BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Vermont Council on the Arts Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Windham Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchVT · funds 55 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas Thompson TrustlocalMA · funds 56 organizations near you
- Leo Cox Beach Philanthropic Foundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation Trust of Vermont Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Preservation Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John M Bissell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Washington County Home for Aged Women Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $38k on record.
- Other Grants$20k
- Grants$18k
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 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Vermont) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,900 to it, the largest being THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($19,900). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $42,900 in grants to BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- THE FONDA FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $19,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BELLOWS FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing