Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Historical Society of Old Newbury
Historical Society of Old Newbury (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,019 to it, the largest being H Patterson Hale Jr Charitable Foundation ($256,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $413k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Historical Society of Old Newbury does
Mission
To preserve and interpret the history of Old Newbury, which includes Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury from settlement until the present.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The preservation and exhibition of historic buildings, artwork, artifacts, documents, furniture and photographs relevant to the area through operation of the Cushing House Museum. This is accomplished through lectures, exhibits, educational programs, school tours, publications, a research library, and through cooperation with organizations interested in local history.
$455,976 spent$28,215 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $455,976.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+42%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 1% · 2020 8% · 2021 8% · 2022 4% · 2024 26% · 2025 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Historical Society of Old Newbury’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Bethany Groff Dorau
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $350 → $53k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Historical Society of Old Newbury’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
Historical Society of Old Newbury leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 58% · 2021 55% · 2022 71% · 2023 57% — 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
33% of Historical Society of Old Newbury's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
91% of Historical Society of Old Newbury's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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
Historical Society of Old Newbury has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Historical Society of Old Newbury receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $42k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$42k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Historical Society of Old Newbury
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Historical Society of Old Newbury: 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 Historical Society of Old Newbury?
- Historical Society of Old Newbury (Massachusetts) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $413,019 to it, the largest being H Patterson Hale Jr Charitable Foundation ($256,600). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Historical Society of Old Newbury have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $413,019 in grants to Historical Society of Old Newbury, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Historical Society of Old Newbury?
- H Patterson Hale Jr Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $256,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Historical Society of Old Newbury 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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