Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM
DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $27k
What Devens Historical Museum does
Mission
To preserve the history of fort devens
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The museum possesses over 3000 artifacts, documents, and photographs that chronical the history of for devens from 1917 to the present. The museum gives guided tours of devens to individuals and groujps, hosts public programd, and is a resourch for veterans, families, researchers, and writers
$29,903 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,903.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $51k to $33k (−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.
92% of DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $0.
From the IRS filings of DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM's revenue fell 30% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $59k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$59k
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 DEVENS HISTORICAL 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM: 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 DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100 in grants to DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEVENS HISTORICAL MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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