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Farmington Historical Society Incorporated

Farmington Historical Society Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,939 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($510,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$594k
Net assets
$2.3M
5/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Farmington Historical Society Incorporated does

Mission

The Farmington Historical Society's primary exempt purposes are to preserve local history and to educate the public on the Town's history.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Maintenance of historic cottages (among the oldest buildings in Town of Farmington), schoolhouse - $32,752Storage of Phineas Lewis house components - $2,850 Total expenses $35,602

    $38,939 spent
    60% of program spending
  2. Membership programs, membership and historic programs, publication of newsletter and communication with members, residents of Farmington and friends. $4,247.Program development $19,167.Archiving of historic records.

    $23,414 spent$2,660 earned by the program
    36% of program spending
  3. Amistad history tours $2,910.

    $2,910 spent$6,937 earned by the program
    4% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $65,263.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($56k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($436k)2018 Revenue 853 ($477k) Expenses 81 ($44k) Net assets 201 ($879k)2019 Revenue 106 ($59k) Expenses 84 ($46k) Net assets 203 ($886k)2020 Revenue 141 ($79k) Expenses 71 ($39k) Net assets 211 ($920k)2021 Revenue 103 ($58k) Expenses 57 ($31k) Net assets 232 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 183 ($102k) Expenses 91 ($50k) Net assets 242 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 277 ($155k) Expenses 170 ($92k) Net assets 252 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 166 ($93k) Expenses 130 ($70k) Net assets 269 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 2171 ($1.2M) Expenses 141 ($76k) Net assets 533 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (2171)Expenses (141)Net assets (533)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+98%).

$437k
$879k
$886k
$920k
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$2.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
$434k
’18
$14k
’19
$41k
’20
$27k
’21
$53k
’22
$63k
’23
$23k
’24
$1.1M
’25
15
months of
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.

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Listed1717171514151514
Joined·+5+4+1+2+2+2+1
No longer listed·5433122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $17k.

5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 Farmington Historical Society Incorporated’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

Farmington Historical Society Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% 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 Farmington Historical Society Incorporated.

86%
largest funder
93%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 91% · 2019 83% · 2020 70% · 2021 99% · 2022 82% · 2023 57% — 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

33% of Farmington Historical Society Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

92% of Farmington Historical Society Incorporated'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from Connecticut funders.

CT
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Farmington Historical Society Incorporated

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 Connecticut

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

20%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Farmington Historical Society Incorporated?
Farmington Historical Society Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $593,939 to it, the largest being THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($510,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Farmington Historical Society Incorporated have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $593,939 in grants to Farmington Historical Society Incorporated, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Farmington Historical Society Incorporated?
THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Farmington Historical Society Incorporated find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 13 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