Ohio · Nonprofit
DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,817 to it, the largest being DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC ($16,817). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $122k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $281k
What Defiance County Historical Society does
Mission
To provide facilities and opportunities for educational activities
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Settlers encampment & historical timeline event. We had300 students attend school day plus 600 general public. Weprovided insight from 1763-1945 rev war, civil war & ww2.
$2,392 spent14% of program spendingJohnny appleseed festival.presented historical ways ofmaking sorghum mollases, apple cider, sawing lumber & antique tractor pulls. Attendance 1500
$12,456 spent75% of program spendingMotorama presented history of automobiles plus anythingmotorized. We had 450 in attendance
$1,690 spent10% of program spendingMotorama and displays of historical motorized vehicles and other equipment 125 attendedwwii reenactment: historical presentation of life as a soldier including u.s. Soldiers, german, italian, and british. Demonsttrating tactical skirmish. 250 attendedfiberpalooza show demonstrating historical methods for the use of various fibers including the processing of flax to spin thread, weaving and quilting.new attendees 91 and members attending 60.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,538.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $197k to $265k (+35%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 DEFIANCE COUNTY 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
DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 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
85% of DEFIANCE COUNTY 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 $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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 DEFIANCE COUNTY 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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,817 to it, the largest being DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC ($16,817). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,817 in grants to DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEFIANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- DEFIANCE AREA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEFIANCE COUNTY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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