Maryland · Nonprofit
HISTORIC TAKOMA INC
HISTORIC TAKOMA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,121 to it, the largest being MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $112k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $70k
- Net assets
- $618k
What Historic Takoma Inc does
Mission
Historic Takoma, Inc. promotes the history and culture of Takoma Park, MD and Takoma Park, DC through education, management of archival collections, public events, advocacy for protection and preservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Programs and events designed to educate the public and promote local history and culture. Activities include lectures, workshops, walking tours, and exhibits/displays. Historic Takoma maintains a public reading room to allow regular public access to reference materials and archival collections.
$9,436 spent9% of program spendingHistoric Takoma maintains an extensive archival collection of documents, images, posters, recordings, and objects related to the history and culture of the Takoma Park community. Ongoing activity includes processing and cataloging materials, rehousing fragile items, digitizing fragile and high value items, and creating an online collection catalog for community access to the collections.
$8,526 spentof which $10,000 as grants$10,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingTakoma radio, wowd-lp, 94.3 fm, provides a source of live local information presented by local people sharing stories and music of our community. It includes archival sounds and stories from historic takoma and contemporary material representing the diversity of the takoma community.
$89,511 spent$109,924 earned by the program83% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,473.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $706k to $618k (−13%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 28% · 2021 4% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $18k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 TAKOMA 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 TAKOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 TAKOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 74% · 2019 67% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 81% · 2023 55% — 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 HISTORIC TAKOMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
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
60% of HISTORIC TAKOMA INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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 HISTORIC TAKOMA 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 Maryland
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
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC TAKOMA INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC TAKOMA INC?
- HISTORIC TAKOMA INC (Maryland) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,121 to it, the largest being MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ($20,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC TAKOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $70,121 in grants to HISTORIC TAKOMA INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC TAKOMA INC?
- MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC TAKOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 11 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