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NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,823 to it, the largest being Connecticut Humanities Council Inc ($39,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$71k
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$125k
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%

Against its field

NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−195% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,650 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($86k) Expenses 100 ($74k) Net assets 100 ($110k)2018 Revenue 191 ($165k) Expenses 65 ($48k) Net assets 207 ($227k)2019 Revenue 219 ($190k) Expenses 256 ($189k) Net assets 207 ($228k)2020 Revenue 58 ($51k) Expenses 159 ($118k) Net assets 147 ($161k)2021 Revenue 151 ($131k) Expenses 190 ($141k) Net assets 134 ($147k)2022 Revenue 203 ($175k) Expenses 280 ($207k) Net assets 105 ($115k)2023 Revenue 703 ($607k) Expenses 292 ($217k) Net assets 460 ($506k)2024 Revenue 125 ($108k) Expenses 425 ($315k) Net assets 272 ($299k)2025 Revenue 82 ($71k) Expenses 283 ($210k) Net assets 146 ($160k)
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Revenue (82)Expenses (283)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 0% · 2020 20% · 2021 66% · 2022 59% · 2023 95% · 2024 81% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,745 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
17
$117k
18
$385
19
$67k
20
$10k
21
$32k
22
$391k
23
$207k
24
$139k
25
6.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $500 → $20k.

1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)0% 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 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’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

NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

40% 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 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 45% · 2022 41% · 2023 45%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

25% of NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

62% of NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
PA
CT
TX

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

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $697k on record.

State$697k
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Top programs
  • Pass thru Grant Non-State$697k

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 NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Connecticut

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORWICH 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $124,823 to it, the largest being Connecticut Humanities Council Inc ($39,255). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $124,823 in grants to NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
Connecticut Humanities Council Inc is the largest funder on record, with $39,255 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing