New Hampshire · Nonprofit
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,525,906 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.0M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $9.0M
What Canterbury Shaker Village Inc does
Mission
The mission of canterbury shaker village is to preserve and interpret the legacy of the shakers, providing a place for learning, reflection, and renewal of the human spirit. Canterbury shaker village, inc., an internationally recognized nonprofit museum, is a national historic landmark and museum with 25 preserved original shaker buildings, 4 reconstructed shaker buildings, and 694 acres of forests, fields, gardens, nature trails, and mill ponds under permanent conservation easement. The village's board, staff, volunteers, and supporters are dedicated to the preservation of the site and to interpreting the shakers' legacy through a robust calendar of exhibitions, programs, tours, and events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Educational programming - canterbury shaker village interprets the lives and legacy of the canterbury shakers through a variety of interdisciplinary educational programs and offerings. Examples include permanent and special exhibitions, interpreter-led guided tours, public and private school field trips, special events, shaker-inspired workshops, and lectures. Each are designed to connect a diverse audience with the history and culture of the canterbury shakers.
$324,502 spent$218,705 earned by the program36% of program spendingBuilding and site preservation- canterbury shaker village, inc., documents, studies, preserves, and maintains the sites historic buildings, comprising 25 of the original 100 structures erected by the canterbury shakers. The village does so with strict adherence to national preservation standards and mandates. The 25 historic buildings represent 200 years of evolving building technology as well as historical shifts in shaker manufactures, entrepreneurship, and living arrangements. The structures date from 1792 to 1923 and document 200 years of the shakers' occupancy of the site. These structures' purposes housed and now represent the shakers' various community purposes: religious worship, residential structure, agricultural and industrial production, medical care, education, and cleanliness. These buildings' interiors retain a high integrity of intactness, while foundations of mills and other associated structures remain on the site and have been recorded and mapped by professional archaeologists.
$265,426 spent29% of program spendingCollections - canterbury shaker village, inc. Preserves the historic shakers' church family site, an exemplary preserved built environment. In 1993, the village received national historic landmark status for its national significance, architectural integrity, and historical authenticity. The village's nationally significant collections constitute one of the largest and most comprehensive body of shaker-made and shaker- used material culture and records remaining in an original shaker community. Nearly 90% of the village's 100,000+ objects, texts, and images have never left the site. These material culture and archival collections, representing 200 years of the canterbury shakers' communal life, are preserved on the site at which this evidence was produced and used. The collections' pre-eminent historic and cultural significance derives from these material and spatial associations, as well as serving as and representing links with other shaker communities. The village's collections are of local, state, regional, and national importance, informing such areas as american history, art, architecture, religion, technology, agriculture, domestic life, domestic industries, women's…
$320,765 spent35% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $910,693.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.7M to $9.0M (+146%).
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: 2021 18% · 2022 8% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
David E Katz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $54k → $886k.
9 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
47% 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 CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 89% · 2019 63% · 2020 39% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 37% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $994k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$505k
- Department of the Interior$410k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$79k
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 CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC?
- CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,525,906 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($2,600,000). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,525,906 in grants to CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 36 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