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SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being The Memton Fund Inc ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$109k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$840k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Society for French Historical Studies does

Mission

Literary education with an emphasis on french studies

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Literary education with an emphasis on french historical works.

    $67,564 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,564.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($282k) Expenses 100 ($126k) Net assets 100 ($619k)2018 Revenue 17 ($48k) Expenses 69 ($87k) Net assets 93 ($577k)2019 Revenue 35 ($100k) Expenses 77 ($97k) Net assets 94 ($580k)2020 Revenue 46 ($130k) Expenses 37 ($47k) Net assets 107 ($663k)2021 Revenue 15 ($43k) Expenses 39 ($50k) Net assets 138 ($852k)2022 Revenue 33 ($92k) Expenses 92 ($117k) Net assets 113 ($698k)2023 Revenue 35 ($100k) Expenses 89 ($112k) Net assets 124 ($767k)2024 Revenue 39 ($109k) Expenses 67 ($84k) Net assets 136 ($840k)
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Revenue (39)Expenses (67)Net assets (136)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 $663k to $852k (+28%).

$619k
$577k
$580k
$663k
$852k
$698k
$767k
$840k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$156k
’17
−$38k
’18
$3k
’19
$83k
’20
−$7k
’21
−$25k
’22
−$13k
’23
$25k
’24
120
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
Listed3333318
Joined·+0+0+1+0+17
No longer listed·00102
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $5k.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES’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

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.

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

’20
’21
Virginia out of state home

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

Against its field

SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin23% · top quartile
Months of reserve119.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES?
SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $7,000 to it, the largest being The Memton Fund Inc ($7,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $7,000 in grants to SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES?
The Memton Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $7,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORICAL STUDIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2024), 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