New York · Nonprofit
MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,485 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G POMEROY FOUNDATION ($4,485). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $22k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $301k
What Marcellus Historical Society does
Mission
Collect, preserve,display & promote the history of marcellus, ny
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Promote membership in the society
Maintain collection and reference material using acceptable preservation methods and materials. Also we keep records up to date and available on the society's computer.
Offer relevant books, paintings & gifts for sale.
Maintain a building for the display of a collection of over 8000 business,school,church, military, home, clothing and personal items relating to marcellus, ny. Provide a reference room for research material including marcellus federal & state census records 1800-1925, death, marriage and cemetery records, marcellus observer newspapers from 1879 to present, family histories, over 31 indexed photo albumns and 50 scrapbooks containing over 40,000 indexed references. The building is open 1 day a week during the winter and 2 days a week in the summer. We had over 250 visitors during 2006. The on going preservation of all artifacts pertaining to the history of marcellus and the people who made it famous.
$12,514 spent100% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,514.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $331k to $344k (+4%).
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.
93% of MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of MARCELLUS 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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 York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $4,485 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM G POMEROY FOUNDATION ($4,485). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $4,485 in grants to MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- THE WILLIAM G POMEROY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,485 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARCELLUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Marcellus Historical Society →
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 1 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