Virginia · Nonprofit
HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $359k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What Historic Polegreen Church Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to preserve the historic polegreen church site and commemorate the struggle for civil and religious freedom in colonial virginia by the rev. Samuel davies and the hanover dissenters. The foundation interprets these important historic events through our programming. The foundation organizes an annual schedule of on-site living history reenactments, community gatherings, a lecture series and educational outreach to local and regional schools through lesson plan and on-site field trips.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Events/programs - the foundation's mission is to preserve the historic polegreen church site and commemorate the struggle for civil and religious freedom in conlonial virginia by the rev. Samuel davies and the hanover dissenters. The foundation interprets these important historic events through our programing. The foundation organizes an annual schedule of on-site living history reenactments, community gatherings, a lecture series and educational outreach to local and regional schools through lesson plan and on-site field trips.
$106,284 spent81% of program spendingNewsletter - the foundation uses a newsletter mailing twice per year to update its supporters of events and provide insight into various aspects of its history. The newsletter is distributed at local libraries and public venues as well as nearly 2,000 mailing addresses.
$4,410 spent3% of program spendingWebsite - www.historicpolegreen.org serves as the foundation's url. This site is visited frequently and updated with other programming and event information such as an oral history of the organization's founder and related resources. A virtual visit of the site's timeline of the history of religious freedom is also available to the internet tourist. The foundation accepts donations online on the give page on the site.
$2,513 spent2% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$18,191 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $131,398.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $6.5M to $6.1M (−6%).
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.
16% of HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 → 2019: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $2k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION 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
HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
83% 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 HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 60% · 2019 67% — growing more concentrated.
“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
83% of HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC?
- HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC POLEGREEN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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