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BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,590 to it, the largest being PAUL & HELEN ELLIS CHARITABLE TRUST TRUBEE WEALTH ADVISORS ($13,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$41k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$29k
Net assets
$20k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Black Rock Historical Society does

Programs

  1. Operation of Black Rock Historical Society

    $26,633 spent
  2. Conducting education speaker series

    $900 spent
  3. Historic education exhibits

    $5,378 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($21k) Expenses 100 ($19k) Net assets 100 ($5k)2021 Revenue 200 ($43k) Expenses 199 ($38k) Net assets 191 ($10k)2022 Revenue 238 ($51k) Expenses 226 ($43k) Net assets 332 ($18k)2023 Revenue 229 ($49k) Expenses 233 ($44k) Net assets 417 ($23k)2024 Revenue 192 ($41k) Expenses 231 ($44k) Net assets 367 ($20k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (192)Expenses (231)Net assets (367)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11k to $18k (+73%).

$7k
$11k
$18k
$23k
$20k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

20202021202220232024
Listed99111111
Joined·+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.

From the IRS filings of BLACK ROCK 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

BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

26% 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 BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

47%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 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 BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve4.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,590 to it, the largest being PAUL & HELEN ELLIS CHARITABLE TRUST TRUBEE WEALTH ADVISORS ($13,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,590 in grants to BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
PAUL & HELEN ELLIS CHARITABLE TRUST TRUBEE WEALTH ADVISORS is the largest funder on record, with $13,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLACK ROCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 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