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THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,140 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($6,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$136k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$1.3M
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What The Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society Inc does

Mission

Maintain historical museum and education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide firefighting and fire protection education, information and reference service for the public and fire service departments and volunteer companies.

    $41,026 spent$-842 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $41,026.

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 ($68k) Expenses 100 ($52k) Net assets 100 ($876k)2018 Revenue 54 ($37k) Expenses 94 ($49k) Net assets 98 ($856k)2019 Revenue 43 ($29k) Expenses 87 ($45k) Net assets 98 ($859k)2020 Revenue 78 ($53k) Expenses 145 ($75k) Net assets 100 ($877k)2021 Revenue 610 ($413k) Expenses 165 ($85k) Net assets 144 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 190 ($129k) Expenses 194 ($100k) Net assets 130 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 63 ($43k) Expenses 126 ($65k) Net assets 132 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 88 ($60k) Expenses 146 ($75k) Net assets 146 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 201 ($136k) Expenses 131 ($67k) Net assets 152 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (201)Expenses (131)Net assets (152)

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 $877k to $1.3M (+44%).

$878k
$856k
$860k
$877k
$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
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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. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’17
−$12k
’18
−$16k
’19
−$22k
’20
$328k
’21
$29k
’22
−$22k
’23
−$15k
’24
$69k
’25
5.2
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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Listed101010999999
Joined·+1+0+2+1+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·10311000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $40 → $6k.

Funder
'20
'23
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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

THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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

99% 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 THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 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

100% of THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

CT

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

’20
’23
Connecticut 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

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In Connecticut

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 37%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

53%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,140 to it, the largest being CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC ($6,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,140 in grants to THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Who is the largest funder of THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CONNECTICUT FIREMEN'S HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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