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NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,636 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($88,800). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$172k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$308k
Net assets
$295k
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What New Bedford Historical Society Inc does

Mission

To document and celebrate the history, legacy and presence of african americans, cape verdeans, native americans, west indians and other people of color in new bedford, massachusetts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Presented information of historical significance to local public schools and presented other educational programs for the benefit of the public.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($51k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets 100 ($275k)2018 Revenue 315 ($161k) Expenses 195 ($112k) Net assets 118 ($324k)2019 Revenue 184 ($94k) Expenses 162 ($93k) Net assets 119 ($326k)2020 Revenue 144 ($74k) Expenses 148 ($85k) Net assets 115 ($315k)2021 Revenue 232 ($119k) Expenses 156 ($89k) Net assets 125 ($344k)2022 Revenue 603 ($309k) Expenses 275 ($157k) Net assets 180 ($496k)2023 Revenue 232 ($119k) Expenses 679 ($389k) Net assets 82 ($225k)2024 Revenue 164 ($84k) Expenses 160 ($92k) Net assets 79 ($218k)2025 Revenue 336 ($172k) Expenses 165 ($95k) Net assets 107 ($295k)
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Revenue (336)Expenses (165)Net assets (107)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 2022 to 2023, from $507k to $237k (−53%).

$292k
$341k
$343k
$327k
$356k
$507k
$237k
$227k
$298k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
$50k
’18
$1k
’19
−$11k
’20
$30k
’21
$151k
’22
−$270k
’23
−$8k
’24
$77k
’25
8.7
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $51k.

2 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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

NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

55% 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 NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

29%
largest funder
76%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 92% · 2019 50% · 2020 34% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 68% — 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

63% of NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

65% of NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
CA
CO
TX

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k 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

NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

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 Massachusetts

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05Profile & governance

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

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $307,636 to it, the largest being SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($88,800). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $307,636 in grants to NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $88,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
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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 13 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