Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,245 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $46k
- Net assets
- $389k
What Norton Historical Society Inc does
Mission
Historic Museum and programs
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We operate a small one room schoolhouse museum for history and genealogy research. We do programs in the town schools and the children come to our museum. We provide this service for at least 120 students each year. The museum is open free of charge every Monday and Wednesday and we had many people use our research material.
$3,512 spent91% of program spendingWe also have six programs each year that are free to the public. Our average attendance is 40 people; including members and non-members. We send out press releases to help advertise these events and draw in more people.
$350 spent9% of program spendingWe own an old farm site with a mill pond and hiking trails. The trails are available for free public use. We do not have a way of monitoring the usage that the trails get. We have no expenses that are directly attributable to maintenance of this land or trails at this time.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,862.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 2024 to 2025, from $372k to $389k (+5%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 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
NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$3k
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 NORTON 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
86%
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 NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: 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 NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,245 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,745). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $46,245 in grants to NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,745 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 5 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