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Telecommunications History Group Inc

Telecommunications History Group Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,439 to it, the largest being THE PETER AMSTEIN FOUNDATION ($282,057). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$149k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$323k
Net assets
$158k
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 67%
01What it does

What Telecommunications History Group Inc does

Mission

Educating and demonstrating how communications changes lives and our world. To preserve, protect and display telecommunication artifacts and documents

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Connections Museum Seattle displays the nations largest collection of working historic telecommunications equipment including many types of central office swichboards,manual switchboards, teletype machines, long distance transmission equipment, radios and telephone sets. We also display artifacts and historic interior furnishings in our small museum in downtown Denver. Docent guided tours are conducted both locations.

    $71,545 spent$2,865 earned by the program
    85% of program spending
  2. The Telecommunications History Group provides education resources for teachers through online content on our web site and through our support of the Colorado National History Day Program.

    $4,978 spent
    6% of program spending
  3. The Telecommunications History group operates an extensive archive of documents, film and video recordings, and other materials related to the history of the communications industry. The archive is available to qualified researchers from the public, academia and industry. We also provide research services on request

    $7,466 spent$635 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $83,989.

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 ($62k) Expenses 100 ($125k) Net assets 100 ($697k)2018 Revenue 170 ($105k) Expenses 112 ($141k) Net assets 6 ($40k)2019 Revenue 145 ($90k) Expenses 67 ($85k) Net assets 6 ($45k)2020 Revenue 178 ($111k) Expenses 71 ($89k) Net assets 9 ($66k)2021 Revenue 266 ($165k) Expenses 91 ($114k) Net assets 17 ($117k)2022 Revenue 235 ($145k) Expenses 94 ($118k) Net assets 21 ($144k)2023 Revenue 195 ($121k) Expenses 101 ($126k) Net assets 20 ($139k)2024 Revenue 240 ($149k) Expenses 103 ($129k) Net assets 23 ($158k)
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Revenue (240)Expenses (103)Net assets (23)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 2017 to 2018, from $699k to $44k (−94%).

$699k
$44k
$45k
$67k
$119k
$145k
$140k
$159k
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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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

86% of Telecommunications History Group Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$63k
’17
−$35k
’18
$5k
’19
$21k
’20
$51k
’21
$27k
’22
−$5k
’23
$19k
’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.

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Listed1816161212101010
Joined·+0+0+0+3+0+1+0
No longer listed·2043210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $53k.

4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 Telecommunications History Group Inc’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

Telecommunications History Group Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

87%
largest funder
95%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 90% · 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.

How long its funders stay

20% of Telecommunications History Group Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Telecommunications History Group Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 5 states in all.

WA
NY
NJ
CO
DE

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Telecommunications History Group Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve14.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Telecommunications History Group Inc

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 31%Fundraising 5%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

48%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Telecommunications History Group Inc?
Telecommunications History Group Inc (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,439 to it, the largest being THE PETER AMSTEIN FOUNDATION ($282,057). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Telecommunications History Group Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $323,439 in grants to Telecommunications History Group Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Telecommunications History Group Inc?
THE PETER AMSTEIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $282,057 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Telecommunications History Group Inc find more funders?
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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 10 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