Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,623 to it, the largest being GEORGE R WALLACE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of North Central Mass Incshared funderslocal
- Reliant Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachshared funderslocal
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.
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: 2017 45% · 2018 7% · 2019 37% · 2020 2% · 2021 42% · 2022 8% · 2023 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $101k → $27k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FITCHBURG 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
FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% 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 FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 93% · 2019 98% · 2020 57% · 2021 95% · 2022 95% · 2023 74% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of North Central Mass Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 90 organizations near you
- Reliant Foundation Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- The Health Foundation of Central Massachshared funderslocalMA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 75 organizations near you
- United Way of Central Massachusetts Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 138 organizations near you
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 294 organizations near you
- Fallon Community Health Plan Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 76 organizations near you
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- The Fred Harris Daniels Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 91 organizations near you
- Worcester County Food Bank InclocalMA · funds 42 organizations near you
- Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundationshared funderslocalMA · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 74 organizations near you
- North Central Massachusetts Development CorporationlocalMA · funds 55 organizations near you
- Webster Five Foundation InclocalMA · funds 112 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69k on record — $14k federal, $55k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$14k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$55k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 FITCHBURG 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $314,623 to it, the largest being GEORGE R WALLACE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $314,623 in grants to FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- GEORGE R WALLACE 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 FITCHBURG HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing