New Hampshire · Nonprofit
FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY
FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $724k
What Francestown Improvement & Historical Society does
Mission
Historical and cultural
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To improve the recreational facilities, to contribute to the improvement and welfare and to provide the seasonal beautificatin of the town of francestown and to preserve and maintain the historical collection of the society
$26,130 spentof which $4,452 as grants52% of program spendingThe francestown village store project includes the renovation of a c. 1814 building to create opportunities for small business and allow for the reestablishment of the francestown village store. The purpose is to revitalize the building as the center of the community and contribute to the improvement and value of francestown.
$23,727 spent$18,580 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $49,857.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $771k to $748k (−3%).
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. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $105.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & 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
FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 53% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
99% of FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & 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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$30k
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 FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & 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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & 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 FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New Hampshire) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,984 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $43,984 in grants to FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANCESTOWN IMPROVEMENT & HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 4 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