Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,330 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($189,372). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $411k
- Net assets
- $11M
What Duxbury Rural & Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The duxbury rural and historical society (drhs) strives to be a responsible steward of our historical buildings, museum objects, archives, and lands. We welcome all audiences to learn along with us, explore our collections, and interpret the unfolding, diverse stories of duxbury's history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Drhs achieves its mission by maintaining four historic house properties, an archival library, museum collections, and more than 150 acres of land held in conservation. These properties, carefully preserved and made accessible by drhs, are part of the heart and character of duxbury. Drhs is a 501 c (3) non-profit designated in massachusetts, and its properties are listed on the national register of historic places. Drhs serves the town of duxbury, massachusetts (16,000 residents); plymouth county (542,000 residents); and plymouth county regional tourism (more than 1 million annually). An average of 1,500 duxbury public school children per year learn duxbury history through free enrichment programming and internships.
$337,828 spent$4,709 earned by the program68% of program spendingProvide educational programs, a library and archives for the encouragement of scholarly research, and offer activities to the duxbury community which promote duxbury's history.most drhs programs are offered to the public with a few member-benefit events on the calendar each year. Many are free of charge or offered for a "suggested donation." in the case of ticketed events, we strive to keep our prices reasonable for the program being offered.
$80,302 spent$5,749 earned by the program16% of program spendingSpecial events and activities are held on a yearly basis to celebrate and promote duxbury's history.drhs manages more than 50 mission-driven events each year at our different sites. These display rotating items from our collections as well as new research that expands the narrative of local history. Our talks are sell-out events, and visitation at the house museums is strong. During the 2025 summer season, approximately 1,700 walk-in and scheduled visitors experienced our exhibits and story-telling narratives at the nathaniel winsor jr., king caesar, and bradford house museums combined.
$78,870 spent$46,052 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $497,000.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $9.9M to $8.5M (−15%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sabrina Kaplan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $32k → $25k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 DUXBURY RURAL & 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
DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 56% · 2019 32% · 2020 42% · 2021 55% · 2022 82% · 2023 40% — 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
50% of DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
62% of DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC'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 $155k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC 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
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
55%
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 DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $411,330 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($189,372). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $411,330 in grants to DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $189,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC 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.
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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 15 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