Connecticut · Nonprofit
CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,288 to it, the largest being BARBOURTOWN FOUNDATION ($14,425). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $38k
- Net assets
- $680k
What Canton Historical Society Inc does
Mission
To preserve and maintain the historical collection of the canton museum. To educate visitors on the history of the town, the importance of the local manufacturing base, lifestyles in the victorian era, and the tools and trades practiced in the area. The life of settlers and prominent individuals are included in primary source materials.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum operations - tours are given by the museum staff and others on aspects of life in the canton environs and describing the use of items contained in the collection. The museum is open to the general public with individualized tours being offered. Approx 3,000 individuals from the u.s. And several foreign countries toured the museum. Several open houses are held each year to allow individuals to view the collection free of charge. The in-kind donations of our volunteer staff are integral to the support of these activities. In addition to viewing the collection, some visitors use the museum library and collection as research for school projects, authors writing books on various topics, tv producers doing research for historical shows and people who want to do genealogical research on their families.
$3,091 spent6% of program spendingGroup tours and local history publications are provided to members and visitors. The museum tries to promote interest in continuing education about elements of our past, and how they affect our current lives through research and publication of various materials. In addition special group tours are arranged for students, seniors, scouting groups, and others who are interested in specific aspects of the museums collections. The museum gift shop carries several books relating to local history as well as a collection of historical maps and ephemera from the collins company (ax factory) that operated in town. A lecture series brings speakers from a variety of fields related to history that affected canton. The general public is the primary audience.
$45,074 spent$9,295 earned by the program94% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,165.
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.
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 $647k to $670k (+4%).
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: 2022 10% · 2023 12% · 2024 7% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CANTON 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
CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 88% · 2023 63% — 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 CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. $63 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like CANTON 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,288 to it, the largest being BARBOURTOWN FOUNDATION ($14,425). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $38,288 in grants to CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- BARBOURTOWN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CANTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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