New Hampshire · Nonprofit
New Hampshire Historical Society
New Hampshire Historical Society (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,380 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN KIMBALL TRUST UW XXX-XX-XXXX ($779,705). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $31M
What New Hampshire Historical Society does
Mission
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Library and Museum: the New Hampshire Historical Society collects and preserves the most extensive collection of objects, books, manuscripts, and images related to New Hampshire history that can be found anywhere. These collections offer the most complete picture available of the social, economic, political, and cultural history of New Hampshire over nearly four centuries.
$941,141 spent$27,490 earned by the program59% of program spendingEducation: the Society offers a diverse range of educational programs, including research services, exhibitions, publications, school programs, public programs, technical services, and support of local historical societies. The Society's website and online collections catalog provide broad access to information on library, archival, and museum collections. The Society also offers the New Hampshire History Network (NHHN), a digital gateway that provides centralized access to New Hampshire's history and historical collections through partnerships with local historical societies and other collecting institutions. In 2017, the Society launched "The Democracy Project: Renewing History and Civics Education in New Hampshire Schools," an initiative to address the growing knowledge deficit in history and civics.
$369,412 spent$71,310 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe Society offers public relations and member services for various visitors and patrons. Other programs include publications, exhibits, facilities, buildings, grounds, and security. The Society also operates a store which sells books and goods related to New Hampshire and its history.
$273,824 spent$3,251 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,584,377.
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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $24M to $27M (+13%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of New Hampshire Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
William Dunlap
President & CEO
Board chair
Joseph L Taggart
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $184k → $166k.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Hampshire Historical Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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 Hampshire Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 Hampshire Historical Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 49% · 2019 60% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 45% · 2023 51% — growing more concentrated.
“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
36% of New Hampshire Historical Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
63% of New Hampshire Historical Society'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. $655k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
New Hampshire Historical Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding New Hampshire Historical Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $582k on record.
- Department of the Interior$400k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$182k
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 New Hampshire 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 Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Charitable Remainder Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Hampshire 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds New Hampshire Historical Society?
- New Hampshire Historical Society (New Hampshire) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,380 to it, the largest being BENJAMIN KIMBALL TRUST UW XXX-XX-XXXX ($779,705). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Hampshire Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,028,380 in grants to New Hampshire Historical Society, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Hampshire Historical Society?
- BENJAMIN KIMBALL TRUST UW XXX-XX-XXXX is the largest funder on record, with $779,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Hampshire Historical Society 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 35 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