Maryland · Nonprofit
HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,275 to it, the largest being THE HOENES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $258k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Howard County Historical Society Inc does
Mission
To collect, preserve, and share the diverse history of all the peoples of Howard County Maryland.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Executive Director, 2 museum staff, 3 office/archives staff provide wages that directly support all mission-related activities. Staff responsibilities include conducting and supporting research services for internal projects as well as outside patrons, designing and maintaining exhibits, compiling and editing the Legacy publication delivering outreach presentations, serving on commissions and community stakeholder groups, preparing grant submissions and reports, managing social media and marketing, and facilitating public programs and events. Staff also manage open hours, rentals, and events, including set-up, visitor check-in, and project coordination across all 4 facilities.
$109,821 spent56% of program spendingOperation and maintenance of the Archives and three museum facilities: the Museum of Howard County History, the Ellicott Mills Childrens Museum, and the Pue-Fulton Farm. Expenses include building maintenance and repairs, landscaping, utilities, security systems and monitoring, and general upkeep necessary to maintain these historic facilities and ensure they remain safe, accessible, and mission-ready for staff, volunteers, and the public.
$73,023 spent38% of program spendingDatabase tools, collections materials, and operational supplies necessary to carry out the organizations mission. Costs include annual license fees for research databases such as Ancestry.com, collections management software, and the Marriage License database, among others. Also included are office and museum supplies required to support daily operations, as well as proper collections care and archival supplies - including acid-free folders, boxes, tissue, and other archival-grade materials - to ensure the long-term preservation of the Societys holdings in accordance with professional museum and archival standards.
$11,760 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,604.
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 $749k to $1.4M (+88%).
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 32% · 2021 23% · 2022 54% · 2023 44% · 2024 55% · 2025 58%. 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 6 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 narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $13k → $16k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
38% 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 HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 51% · 2019 89% · 2020 48% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 63% — 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
22% of HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
96% of HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. $6k 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.
Organizations like HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
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In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,275 to it, the largest being THE HOENES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($61,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $108,275 in grants to HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- THE HOENES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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