New Hampshire · Nonprofit
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM (New Hampshire) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,694,286 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,292,840). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $25M
What Strawbery Banke Museum does
Mission
The museum's mission is to promote understanding of the lives of individuals and the value of community through encounters with the history and ongoing preservation of a new england seaport community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Property: the restoration program continues to restore historic sbm's historic structures to reflect current research and best practices.
$906,481 spent30% of program spendingEducation: the daily program may through october offers an extensive and varied schedule of offerings - including exhibitions, role-playing, house- tours, crafts, cooking and horticulture demonstrations, and special-subject tours.
$557,541 spent$166,937 earned by the program18% of program spendingIn 2014, the museum opened the labrie family skate at puddle dock pond, a 19th century outdoor, seasonal ice skating rink on the grounds of the museum. The site provides ice skating in a historic atmosphere and brings a community experience to the area. The facility offers social, recreational and performing arts opportunities and programs for the physically and visually impaired.
$428,393 spent$407,790 earned by the program14% of program spendingStrawbery Banke Museum sbm is an outdoor living history museum in portsmouth, nh. - it interprets 400-year history of a seaport community. Sbm preserves and maintains thirty-nine historic structures, two modern buildings (the lawrence j. Yerdon visitors center and the carter collections center), extensive period gardens, a large archaeology collection, and an extensive collection of artifacts 25,000+ dating from the period 1653 to 1960. Twenty of the historic structures are restored and open to the public. In 2025, sbm produced an extensive and varied educational program for over 108,000 visitors. The site is listed on the national register of historic places. Other programs include: collections, horticulture, visitors services, special events, heritage house, and other programs.
$1,122,610 spent$996,636 earned by the program37% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,015,025.
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.
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 $12M to $17M (+43%).
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: 2018 2% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 7% · 2024 2% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Cynthia Fenneman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $175k → $540k.
8 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. 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
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 58% · 2019 48% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 42% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
46% of STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New Hampshire, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $510k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$292k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$218k
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 STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM
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 New Hampshire
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
41%
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 STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM: 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 STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM?
- STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM (New Hampshire) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,694,286 to it, the largest being New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ($1,292,840). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $4,694,286 in grants to STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM?
- New Hampshire Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,292,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STRAWBERY BANKE MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 47 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