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Sayville Historical Society

Sayville Historical Society (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$86k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$353k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Sayville Historical Society does

Mission

To preserve history of the community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Provide a scholarship to graduating Sayville HS student for higher education. Criteria are based on academic merit, social responsibility, selected by HS history teachers.

    $2,000 spentof which $2,000 as grants
    2% of program spending
  2. Other program services

    $83,484 spent
    98% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $85,484.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($87k) Expenses 100 ($80k) Net assets 100 ($362k)2018 Revenue 84 ($73k) Expenses 85 ($68k) Net assets 101 ($367k)2019 Revenue 92 ($80k) Expenses 77 ($62k) Net assets 106 ($386k)2020 Revenue 80 ($69k) Expenses 73 ($58k) Net assets 109 ($397k)2021 Revenue 78 ($67k) Expenses 87 ($70k) Net assets 109 ($394k)2022 Revenue 82 ($71k) Expenses 76 ($61k) Net assets 112 ($405k)2023 Revenue 69 ($60k) Expenses 90 ($72k) Net assets 108 ($392k)2024 Revenue 75 ($65k) Expenses 131 ($105k) Net assets 97 ($352k)2025 Revenue 99 ($86k) Expenses 107 ($85k) Net assets 97 ($353k)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (107)Net assets (97)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $392k to $352k (−10%).

$362k
$367k
$386k
$397k
$394k
$405k
$392k
$352k
$353k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’17
$5k
’18
$18k
’19
$11k
’20
−$2k
’21
$11k
’22
−$12k
’23
−$40k
’24
$643
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of Sayville 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.

Where its funders are

100% of Sayville Historical Society's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like Sayville Historical Society

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In New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sayville 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 Sayville Historical Society?
Sayville Historical Society (New York) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sayville Historical Society have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to Sayville Historical Society.
Who is the largest funder of Sayville Historical Society?
ROBERT DAVID LION GARDINER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sayville Historical Society find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 1 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