New York · Nonprofit
HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,437 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($38,835). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $306k
What Half-Shire Historical Society does
Mission
Half-Shire's mission is to "Preserve, protect and promote the history, genealogy and cultural heritage of the eleven towns of northern Oswego County along with the Lewis County Towns of Osceola and Montague and the Oneida County Towns of Camden and Florence."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
'Community Connections' involves celebrating current and past milestones in the lives of our communities and people (examples include quarterly newsletters and literary reviews, school and family reunions, celebrations of life (births, deaths, marriages) and social media posts). Through these events and venues we document and promote the fascinating rich cultural and community history of our region which often leads to donations of artifacts and materials, increasing our collections as well as allowing us to share these photographs and historical documents with the public. In 2025 we held ~35 significant community celebrations (reunions, wakes, weddings, DAR and SAR events) and received artifacts from 1 major estate as well as several minor collections. In 2025 Half Shire published 3 of their own newsletters and literary reviews, and helped 8 other local non-profit orgs with their newsletter publishing.
$35,546 spent52% of program spending'Genealogy and Historical Research' - Half-Shire Historical Society was open in 2025 ~ 50 hours weekly supported by a team of 16 volunteers (on and off site) who interact with the public - in person, via the phone, social media and email, researching and responding to requests for information on people, places and things (artifacts) - estimate > 350 unique interactions for the year (from quick phone calls to in-depth research). These volunteers also catalog and maintain our growing collection of genealogy, artifacts and community histories.
$14,050 spent21% of program spending'Restoration & Collection of Historical Material' includes the building (a 1926 4 class room brick schoolhouse located in the Hamlet of Richland NY) as well as countless significant artifacts (paintings, furniture, antique Bibles and other books, 5 pianos (1 at the Oswego County Fairgrounds), 2 organs and a vast collection of photography spanning 180 years). In 2024 we continued following the 2015 Condition Assessment Report's recommendations for capital improvements of the building and improving the exterior and surrounding 2.5 acre grounds. Following our mission to maintain and improve the condition of our artifact collection we completed the restoration of over 28 family Bibles, rebound 7 county histories and atlases and tuned the 5 pianos. We continued to improve the former classrooms, which are used for exhibits, by constructing 10 new hardwood book cases, added a porch on the back of our schoolhouse (360 sq ft) and expanded the two story barn (used for exhibits and storage) by 144 sq feet. We were gifted a 1907 16 x 40 Railroad station that was moved to our town from Camden in 1965. We are raising money to move it to our campus to house our Railroad history collection. An…
$18,599 spent27% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,195.
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.
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 $213k to $253k (+19%).
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. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50 → $8k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 HALF-SHIRE 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
HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% 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
59% 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 HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 61% · 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
59% of HALF-SHIRE 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 $28k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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.
Organizations like HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $66,437 to it, the largest being CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($38,835). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $66,437 in grants to HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALF-SHIRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $38,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALF-SHIRE 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 5 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