Ohio · Nonprofit
CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,408 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($184,056). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $632k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $411k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Chagrin Falls Historical Society does
Mission
Chagrin history center discovers, preserves, and shares evidence of and knowledge about the history of chagrin falls and vicinity to enable all who live, work, and visit the area to appreciate its past, understand its present, and plan for its future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Chagrin Falls Historical Society museum acquires, collects, preserves and shares artifacts from our village and vicinity, from its earliest times (it was settled in 1833), including a large collection of photographs and objects owned by early settlers, such as clothing, kitchen tools, household furniture and personal effects, as well as a substantial doll collection donated by a former museum curator.the collection includes a number of products produced by the villages mills, foundries and factories that were originally water-powered by the chagrin river, which attracted the first settlers from mill towns in new england.the museum also has collections of artworks by two well known primitive artists henry church, jr. And max barnard who lived in the village most of their lives.the museum also maitains archives with records of local organizations and businesses, and microfilms of our early local weekly newspaper, the chagrin falls exponent. The Chagrin Falls Historical Society offers enjoyable and unique educational programs for both school children and adults throughout the year. The organization hosts an annual historic chagrin falls home and garden tour and spirits alive tour…
$173,697 spent$43,814 earned by the program99% of program spendingThe organization disseminates historical information and creates interest in the past by publishing a society newsletter, submission of articles to the local newspaper, and publishing books and through social media (facebook, twitter, etc.)
$2,549 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $176,246.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.3M to $3.8M (+17%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2021 17% · 2022 11% · 2023 19%. 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 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 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $9k → $134k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 CHAGRIN FALLS 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
CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 76% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 76% · 2022 44% · 2023 47% — 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
30% of CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
60% of CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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 $164k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $247k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,408 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($184,056). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $411,408 in grants to CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $184,056 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAGRIN FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 18 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