New Hampshire · Nonprofit
Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum
Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum (New Hampshire) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,091 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $409k
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum does
Mission
The mission of the Enfield Shaker Museum, an educational institution, is to preserve and share its historical structures, landscape, and Shaker cultural heritage with our multi-generational visitors, members, and the global community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation: The Museum is actively restoring, preserving, and maintaining the remaining built environment of the original Shaker village, established in 1793 along the shore of Mascoma Lake. This national historic site contains 14 extant Shaker buildings (the earliest dating to 1813 built by the Shakers of Enfield) after the purchase of an adjacent property in September 2023. TThe 60 acres also contain a mill pond and related water technology, two cemeteries, and a historic garden featuring Shaker heirloom plant varieties situated within a larger historic built environment surrounded by state-protected lands (on which is the unique Shaker Feast Ground atop of Mount Assurance, which the Museum also maintains). The Museum preserves its building collection through rigorous research and adherence to Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The site's domestic, agricultural, and industrial buildings document 150 years of the Shakers' creation and occupation of the site. All have been recorded through professional architectural renderings, archaeological excavations and surveys, and documentary historical research. These buildings not only tell…
$658,423 spent$363,102 earned by the program100% of program spendingEducation: Education is the heart of Enfield Shaker Museum's mission. Through the Museum's historic buildings and built environment, artifactual collections, archaeological collections, archives, and library, professional staff members, skilled craftspeople, scholars, and volunteers provide to a diverse and growing public a variety of programs and exhibitions with which to learn about and learn from the Shakers of Enfield, New Hampshire. Trained interpreters and staff educators provide general and topical tours and site interpretation geared to visitor-initiated questions. Visitors may also take self-guided tours of the historic site. Throughout the year visitors may learn history, Shaker trades and industries, and sustainability through doing historic crafts, foodways, and activities provided through demonstrations and hands-on workshops (oval boxes, knives, brooms, spinning, weaving, textile dyeing, gardening, timber-framing, for example). Talks, lectures, and tours explore the Shakers within their historical context and raise questions about communalism, racial and gender equality, pacifism, and tolerance today. The Museum is dedicated to supporting local primary, secondary,…
Events: From Shaker Day in late April/early May through December's Festival of Trees the Museum is open to visitors, overnight guests, students, and volunteers who participate in large educational, celebratory, and fundraising events that build and strengthen community and increase knowledge. The Museum's opening day is full of tours and activities geared to members, children, and Enfield residents (who always enjoy free admission). In late April the prestigious Spring Shaker Forum, a national recognized venue for Shaker scholarship, occurs. Every year the Forum increases in speakers and in participants. During the summer months the Museum is home to the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale, which offers its students a variety of musical experiences and training. September's annual Harvest Festival is geared to families and children, offering craft activities and demonstrations, farm animals, musicians and entertainers, and other activities related to agriculture and food throughout the year. Our Harvest festilval in September brings over 700 people to thje museum in one day against the spectacular autumn backdrop fo this historic site. The Museum's Cider and Cheese…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $658,423.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $3.7M to $5.7M (+54%).
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.
63% of Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $17k → $378.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum’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
Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 65% · 2022 98% · 2023 79% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
75% of Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum'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 $102k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k 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.
Against its field
Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum 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 Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $258k on record.
- Department of the Interior$130k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$129k
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 Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum?
- Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum (New Hampshire) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $409,091 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $409,091 in grants to Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chosen Vale Inc Enfield Shaker Museum 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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