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GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,550 to it, the largest being JANE AND JACK FITZPATRICK TRUST ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$76k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$90k
Net assets
$819k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Great Barrington Historical Society Inc does

Mission

Preservation of historical data and art.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preservation of historical information related to great barrington, massachusetts, provided education to local residents of the community about the history of great barrington.

    $111,764 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $111,764.

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 ($125k) Expenses 100 ($84k) Net assets 100 ($717k)2018 Revenue 59 ($74k) Expenses 97 ($82k) Net assets 99 ($710k)2019 Revenue 84 ($105k) Expenses 121 ($101k) Net assets 99 ($713k)2020 Revenue 87 ($109k) Expenses 97 ($81k) Net assets 103 ($741k)2021 Revenue 86 ($108k) Expenses 91 ($77k) Net assets 108 ($773k)2022 Revenue 107 ($134k) Expenses 93 ($78k) Net assets 116 ($829k)2023 Revenue 85 ($107k) Expenses 93 ($78k) Net assets 120 ($858k)2024 Revenue 60 ($76k) Expenses 137 ($115k) Net assets 114 ($819k)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (137)Net assets (114)

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 $808k to $860k (+7%).

$767k
$755k
$754k
$780k
$808k
$860k
$885k
$842k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’17
−$8k
’18
$3k
’19
$28k
’20
$32k
’21
$56k
’22
$29k
’23
−$39k
’24
2.7
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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Listed1111111112131513
Joined·+2+1+0+3+2+5+1
No longer listed·2102133
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $150 → $75k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
2
1
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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

GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 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

95% of GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

NY
MA
PA

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

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’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,550 to it, the largest being JANE AND JACK FITZPATRICK TRUST ($85,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $89,550 in grants to GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREAT BARRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
JANE AND JACK FITZPATRICK TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $85,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREAT BARRINGTON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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