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THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC

THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,910 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($26,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$347k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$92k
Net assets
$391k
3/9 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association Inc does

Mission

The acquisition of objects of major historic and/or artistic importance to nantucket and its peoples and to donate such objects to the nantucket historical association for public display in its museums and historical properties.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The acquisition of objects of major historic and/or artistic importance to the peoples of nantucket and the donation of such items to the nantucket historical association for public display in its museums and historic properties.

    $209,000 spentof which $209,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 = 20242024 Revenue 100 ($299k) Expenses 100 ($203k) Net assets 100 ($339k)2025 Revenue 116 ($347k) Expenses 145 ($296k) Net assets 115 ($391k)
20242025
Revenue (116)Expenses (145)Net assets (115)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 2024 to 2025, from $344k to $395k (+15%).

$344k
$395k
20242025
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.

2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$95k
’24
$51k
’25
16
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.

20242025
Listed99
Joined·+1
No longer listed·1
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $3k → $5k.

3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 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 FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

50% 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 FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC.

28%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 50% · 2022 43% · 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

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

THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 5 states in all.

NY
MA
MO
LA
TX

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

’17
’20
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve16.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 11%Fundraising 18%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Nantucket Historical Association · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC?
THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,910 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($26,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $91,910 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF THE NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 9 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