New York · Nonprofit
Greece Historical Society
Greece Historical Society (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,363 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $61k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $596k
What Greece Historical Society does
Mission
Collect, preserve, research and share local history of the Town of Greece NY. Maintain historical house, artifact collection, & reference library. Conduct public programs & special events, on local history, architecture, and historic sites within the town. Tell story of Greece NY
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Crandelll Scholarship was established (see Part III)
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Operate a historical center containing artifacts and displays of local history. Welcomed 400 visitors who signed our guest book. (Not all visitors sign at events like craft & book sales) Welcomed school groups including Greece teachers, Arcadia middle school History Club, Arcadia & Odyssey Middle Schools, and the Family and Friends group from the Greece Community Center. In addition to our permanent exhibits there were special exhibits on: 1) The Rochester Jeffersons, a founding member team of the NFL in 1920 2) The 200th Anniversary of the Erie Canal
$25,114 spent$12,580 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe society publishes a monthly newletter highlighting society activity and historical articles. We own the rights to several publications on local history. We reprinted Manitou Beach Trolley Days, Barns of Greece, Pioneer Families of Greece Vol 1, and Our Town in WW2. These are available on Amazon.com and in our gift shop. In November we published Pioneer Families of Greece - Vol 2. an extension of Vol 1 with more families. The project on a historical survey of the works of local african american architect Thomas W Boyd Jr. is awaiting final approval; we are hoping to turn it into a book on his works like we did with James Johnson, another local architect of note. We are also working on a history of Greece Central School District school 5, built in 1930, and recently removed to make way for the new GCSD Transportation Facility. We worked with the school district to establish a memorial to the building on its former site. Parts of the 1930 time capsule retrieved from the building were preserved and incorporated into a new capsule in the memorial to be opened in 2075. We continue to operate and improve a website that gives the public access to society decuments and media, and we…
$3,382 spent$400 earned by the program11% of program spendingEstablished a college scholarship program for high school seniors who are residents of the town of Greece. Given in the name of Warren G Crandell, who donated part of his estate to the society. $2000 awarded to a senior or seniors who are going to major or minor inEducation, or History at a 2 or 4 year college. Warren was a WW2 vet and retired school teacher. He passed away in 2021 at age 95. At a minimun $2000 will be awarded each year; $1000 in June to help with expenses to start college, and $1000 in January of the students freshman year provided a 2.75 GPA is maintained. Additional scholarships mat be awarded by the GHS board.
$2,046 spent6% of program spendingOur 8 monthly Tuesday evening lectures feature local historians, authors, and humanities scholars. Our presentations continue to be very popular with community and are well attended. During 2025 we averaged over 70 guests per program. Our programs include high quality, professional, and entertaining history lessons. We also conducted several Sunday afternoon programs at our museum. These included: 1) A grand opening celebration of the NFL exhibit. 2) a holiday open house 3) The history of Holy Cross parish 4) Joan of Arc by a local author 5) History of Durand Eastman Park. Members of the society presented programs to external audiences at their locations: 1)Gates Historical Society 2) The Geriatric Pilots Association 3) Residents of Legacy at Maiden Park. We had an informati0on table at local history events at: 1) Genesee County Village and Museum 2)Homesteads for Hope. Society members conducted on site tours of Rochesters Riverside Cemetery, and the historic barns of Greece NY. In support of the 200th
$1,325 spent$453 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,867.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $442k to $554k (+25%).
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.
49% of Greece Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $20.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Greece 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
Greece Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 Greece Historical Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 40% · 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
100% of Greece Historical Society's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k 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.
Against its field
Greece Historical Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Greece Historical Society
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Greece Historical Society?
- Greece Historical Society (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,363 to it, the largest being PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greece Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $57,363 in grants to Greece Historical Society, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greece Historical Society?
- PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greece Historical Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 6 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