Colorado · Nonprofit
BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,316 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($192,092). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $192k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Berthoud Historical Society Inc does
Mission
Dedicated to a rich rural heritage, the berthoud historical society discovers and preserves the history of the town of berthoud, the little thompson valley area, colorado, and the surrounding region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The berthoud historical society(bhs) builds community by discovering, collecting, interpreting, and preserving the history of the town of berthoud, the little thompson valley area, and the surrounding colorado region. The society maintains two historically relevant museum properties, builds creative exhibits, and holds meetings and activities for the education and enjoyment of its members and visitors. Yearly, elementary students come for educational guided tours that highlight berthoud history in pioneer days. We have strong support from our town, which allows us to employ a full-time museum manager. --------------- see schedule o for more detail ----------------
$112,791 spent$16,407 earned by the program100% of program spendingMccarty-fickel home museum offers history of berthoud via the people who lived there.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $112,791.
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 2022 to 2023, from $355k to $991k (+179%).
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.
87% of BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $17k → $35.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BERTHOUD 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
BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
100% of BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
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 Colorado
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,316 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ($192,092). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $192,316 in grants to BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO is the largest funder on record, with $192,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BERTHOUD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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