New Hampshire · Nonprofit
MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION
MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,826 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($108,650). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $869k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $430k
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Manchester Historic Association does
Mission
To collect and preserve materials relating to the history of manchester, new hampshire, and to operate a museum, research center, and educational programs relating to this history for the benefit of the public.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs and outreach - the Manchester Historic Association operates the millyard museum and the research center, which are open to the public. The millyard museum displays educational exhibits about the history of manchester spanning pre-history (paleo-indians and native americans) to the present time, with a major focus on the industrial era. The museum includes permanent and changing exhibits. The museum also functions as an educational facility for the association's public and school programs, and for community and business events. The association provides educational programs including lectures on historical topics; walking tours of city neighborhoods; school programs (for kindergarten through college, boy & girls scout troops, home schoolers, and adult english language learners); workshops for teachers and researchers, and concerts of historical music. The association provides lectures and other types of outreach to outside groups. It also publishes articles about manchester history, and provides historical information and images through its websites, including access to its photographic and art collection archives. The research center serves students, scholars and the…
$391,445 spent$12,508 earned by the program72% of program spendingMuseum - the museum function encompasses the collecting, storage, care and display of historical objects and artifacts that relate to the history of manchester. The organization displays a selection of these materials in the millyard museum and in the research center, and otherwise stores the objects and artifacts. The stored items are available to the general public for study purposes, and are also made available for loan to other museums. The association occasionally borrows historical objects and artifacts from other organizations and individuals for educational purposes, including for public display. Library - this function encompasses the collecting, storage, care and display of historical documents, photographs, books and ephemera that relate to the history of manchester. The organization displays a selection of these materials in the millyard museum, and otherwise stores the items. The stored items are available to the general public for study purposes, and are also made available for loan to other museums. The association occasionally borrows historical materials from other organizations and individuals for educational purposes, including for public display.
$155,652 spent$83,031 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $547,097.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $6.3M to $7.6M (+21%).
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 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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 broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $115k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION’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
MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
32% 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 MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 47% · 2019 73% · 2020 93% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 39% — 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
70% of MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
95% of MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $118k 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.
Government funding MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$24k
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 MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION?
- MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION (New Hampshire) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,826 to it, the largest being COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST ($108,650). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $429,826 in grants to MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION?
- COGSWELL BENEVOLENT TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $108,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION 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 2019–2025), 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