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QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS

QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,696 to it, the largest being THE DIEBOLD FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$159k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$17k
Net assets
$2.5M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Quinebaug Valley Engineers does

Mission

Historic machinery display including oxen plow, antique saw mill, antique engine & tractor saw, plowing, saw mill, tractor demos, saw mill talks, antique engine lectures.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Swap meets, lectures, displays

    $84,240 spent$106,368 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,240.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($113k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($314k)2020 Revenue 61 ($69k) Expenses 28 ($56k) Net assets 114 ($358k)2021 Revenue 166 ($188k) Expenses 28 ($57k) Net assets 707 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 120 ($135k) Expenses 26 ($53k) Net assets 714 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 215 ($243k) Expenses 54 ($109k) Net assets 770 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 140 ($159k) Expenses 43 ($86k) Net assets 804 ($2.5M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (140)Expenses (43)Net assets (804)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 2020 to 2021, from $426k to $2.3M (+435%).

$391k
$426k
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.6M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

25% of QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$90k
’19
$13k
’20
$131k
’21
$82k
’22
$135k
’23
$72k
’24
14
months of
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed242423212120
Joined·+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·03201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $61 → $42.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS’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

QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

91% of QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin46% · top quartile
Months of reserve13.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

90%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS?
QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,696 to it, the largest being THE DIEBOLD FOUNDATION INC ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $16,696 in grants to QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS?
THE DIEBOLD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like QUINEBAUG VALLEY ENGINEERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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