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FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC

FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$29k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$221k
Net assets
$553k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Friends of the Libby Museum Inc does

Mission

To engage in and otherwise promote the maintenance and support of the Libby Museum of Natural History in Wolfeboro, NH in its scientific, literary, and educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

The organization is no longer soliciting donations for the renovation/restoration of the Museum as the Town of Wolfeboro failed to approve matching funds for the project.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Support efforts to clarify the way forward for the Libby Trust (ie the Museum, its collection and property).

    $11,006 spentof which $5,000 as grants$11,877 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,006.

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 ($16k) Expenses 100 ($14k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2018 Revenue 102 ($16k) Expenses 112 ($16k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2019 Revenue 612 ($97k) Expenses 559 ($80k) Net assets 131 ($62k)2020 Revenue 789 ($125k) Expenses 50 ($7k) Net assets 382 ($180k)2021 Revenue 420 ($67k) Expenses 59 ($8k) Net assets 505 ($238k)2022 Revenue 1961 ($312k) Expenses 303 ($44k) Net assets 1062 ($500k)2023 Revenue 584 ($93k) Expenses 167 ($24k) Net assets 1107 ($521k)2024 Revenue 170 ($27k) Expenses 53 ($8k) Net assets 1148 ($541k)2025 Revenue 184 ($29k) Expenses 109 ($16k) Net assets 1175 ($553k)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (109)Net assets (1175)

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 $238k to $500k (+110%).

$47k
$55k
$62k
$180k
$238k
$500k
$521k
$541k
$553k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
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.

$1k
’17
$161
’18
$17k
’19
$118k
’20
$58k
’21
$268k
’22
$69k
’23
$19k
’24
$14k
’25
423
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.

Board chair

Suzanne Ryan

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed4444
Joined·+2+0+2
No longer listed·202
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $600 → $36k.

5 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM 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

FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC.

34%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 55% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 61% · 2023 41% — 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 FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM 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 $56k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside New Hampshire, across 4 states.

NH
MN
IL
MA

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k 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 FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

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Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC?
FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($75,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $221,000 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC?
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE LIBBY MUSEUM INC 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.

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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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing