Connecticut · Nonprofit
OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,700 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $214k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Old Saybrook Historical Society does
Mission
Dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting the history of old saybrook.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Old Saybrook Historical Society's mission is to preserve, protect and promote the history of the Town of Old Saybrook and Saybrook Colony. It owns and maintains a campus consisting of the 1767 General William Hart House and Exhibit Gallery, the Frank Stevenson Archives Building and heritage gardens that are open to the public year-round.It protects documents and artifacts that are important to the history of the area, provides opportunities for historical and genealogical research. It also offers tours, timely historical exhibits and programs.
$99,760 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,760.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $2.1M (−12%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 22% · 2019 17% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $23k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 OLD SAYBROOK 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.
How concentrated its funding is
OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 71% · 2022 66% · 2023 44% — 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
71% of OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY'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 $44k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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.
Organizations like OLD SAYBROOK 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 OLD SAYBROOK 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 OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,700 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($70,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $148,700 in grants to OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
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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 7 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