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HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,100 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$150k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$404k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%
01What it does

What Holliston Historical Society does

Program

  1. Educational - the history of holliston, ma

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 100 ($225k)2018 Revenue 101 ($99k) Expenses 106 ($77k) Net assets 110 ($248k)2019 Revenue 91 ($90k) Expenses 100 ($72k) Net assets 118 ($266k)2020 Revenue 90 ($89k) Expenses 72 ($52k) Net assets 134 ($303k)2021 Revenue 111 ($109k) Expenses 164 ($118k) Net assets 130 ($294k)2022 Revenue 106 ($105k) Expenses 113 ($81k) Net assets 139 ($313k)2023 Revenue 126 ($125k) Expenses 148 ($106k) Net assets 147 ($331k)2024 Revenue 151 ($148k) Expenses 180 ($130k) Net assets 155 ($350k)2025 Revenue 152 ($150k) Expenses 132 ($95k) Net assets 180 ($404k)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (132)Net assets (180)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $350k to $404k (+16%).

$225k
$248k
$266k
$303k
$294k
$313k
$331k
$350k
$404k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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Listed988888889
Joined·+3+0+0+0+0+3+0+4
No longer listed·40000303
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $20k.

From the IRS filings of HOLLISTON 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

HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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

66%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 100% — 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

91% of HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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MA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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Questions and answers

Who funds HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,100 to it, the largest being MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $30,100 in grants to HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
MIDDLESEX SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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 HOLLISTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 4 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