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MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,652 to it, the largest being The Summer Hill Foundation ($80,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$117k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$241k
Net assets
$597k
10/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 37%
01What it does

What Madison Historical Society Inc does

Mission

Collection, preservation and documentation of items with historical importance to the town of madison, ct for exhibition and educational purposes.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Maintaining the historic museums, the allis-bushnell house and the lee academy. The museums can be visited during scheduled hours or by appointment and admissions is free. They are visited by the general public and school children. The museums and their collections are maintain for educational purposes, focusing on the history of the town of madison, ct.

    $101,328 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,328.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($108k) Expenses 100 ($103k) Net assets 100 ($437k)2019 Revenue 129 ($139k) Expenses 119 ($123k) Net assets 107 ($470k)2020 Revenue 197 ($213k) Expenses 102 ($105k) Net assets 148 ($648k)2021 Revenue 190 ($204k) Expenses 156 ($161k) Net assets 162 ($707k)2022 Revenue 198 ($213k) Expenses 324 ($334k) Net assets 109 ($476k)2023 Revenue 160 ($172k) Expenses 204 ($211k) Net assets 123 ($539k)2024 Revenue 109 ($117k) Expenses 135 ($140k) Net assets 137 ($597k)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (109)Expenses (135)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $721k to $504k (−30%).

$438k
$472k
$655k
$721k
$504k
$550k
$608k
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 32% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’18
$16k
’19
$108k
’20
$43k
’21
−$121k
’22
−$39k
’23
−$23k
’24
2.2
months of
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.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed20191818151714
Joined·+2+0+2+1+5+1
No longer listed·312434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $12k → $34k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MADISON 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

MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

27% 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 MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

33%
largest funder
63%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 77% · 2019 76% · 2020 88% · 2021 68% · 2022 45% · 2023 29% — 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

44% of MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
NJ
CT
MO
NC
TX

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

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’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−19% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190k on record.

State$190k
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23
Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$190k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 22%Fundraising 6%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,652 to it, the largest being The Summer Hill Foundation ($80,200). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $240,652 in grants to MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
The Summer Hill Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $80,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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