New Hampshire · Nonprofit
LYME HISTORIANS INC
LYME HISTORIANS INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,395 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $149k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $116k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Lyme Historians Inc does
Mission
The lyme historians, inc. Was founded in 1961 with the purpose of helping to document the town's history, keeping it alive and relevant to the present day by maintaining exhibits and collections and acquiring books, maps, documents and artifacts pertaining to lyme, new hampshire.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The lyme historians moved into the churchill/melvin house at 15 main street, lyme, new hampshire in fall of 2016. The museum exhibits in 4 rooms; 2 rooms of which feature revolving exhibits and 2 more with permanent exhibits. An entrance on the east side of the building allows a view to four historic areas of the town: the lyme congregational church, the horse sheds, the old jail house and the old lyme plain cemetery. Through the generous donation of a lyme resident, we received title to the chesley schoolhouse, a beautifully kept one room schoolhouse in lyme center. The schoolhouse has many of its original features including old school desks and an "in-house" outhouse.
$34,319 spent$190 earned by the program95% of program spending2025 was another successful year for the lyme historians. Over the course of the summer and fall we hosted over 200 visitors to exhibits and events at our main street and chesley school museums. Our april annual meeting drew an audience of approximately 60 residents to a presentation about the 1938 hurricane that pummeled new england. Speaker steve long gave special attention to the hurricane's impact on lyme, including the hundreds of thousands of logs stored and milled at post pond. As in years past, the historians hosted a successful porch party over the summer that attracted many residents for conversation and learning. We expanded the concept to include "porch chats" where a board member was available to discuss anything of interest to a visitor while enjoyng a cool drink and cookie. We continued our second saturday series where several long time lyme residents discussed their own small town life experiences growing up in town. In late summer, we hosted our first outdoor sing-a-long, where guests joined an accomplished musician in singing a range of songs spanning 150 years of american history. In the fall, we decorated the museum for halloween festivities and were generous…
$1,693 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $36,012.
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.
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 $1.0M to $1.2M (+14%).
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.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $6k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 LYME HISTORIANS 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
LYME HISTORIANS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 LYME HISTORIANS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 72% · 2020 46% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
25% of LYME HISTORIANS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
67% of LYME HISTORIANS 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 $39k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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In New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
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 LYME HISTORIANS INC?
- LYME HISTORIANS INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $116,395 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LYME HISTORIANS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $116,395 in grants to LYME HISTORIANS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYME HISTORIANS INC?
- GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYME HISTORIANS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 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