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THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER

THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,526 to it, the largest being BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$378k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$429k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What The Preservation Society of Fall River does

Mission

Promote and foster the preservation of historically and architecturally significant properties and neighborhoods in fall river.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote and foster the preservation of historically and architecturally significant properties and neighborhoods in fall river.

    $267,221 spent$210,326 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $267,221.

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 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($4k) Net assets 100 ($30k)2018 Revenue 102 ($17k) Expenses 565 ($22k) Net assets 579 ($175k)2019 Revenue 434 ($72k) Expenses 1875 ($73k) Net assets 575 ($174k)2020 Revenue 606 ($100k) Expenses 1506 ($58k) Net assets 713 ($216k)2021 Revenue 407 ($67k) Expenses 954 ($37k) Net assets 813 ($246k)2022 Revenue 4262 ($704k) Expenses 5718 ($222k) Net assets 2408 ($728k)2023 Revenue 1528 ($253k) Expenses 6305 ($245k) Net assets 906 ($274k)2024 Revenue 2067 ($342k) Expenses 7396 ($287k) Net assets 1086 ($328k)2025 Revenue 2287 ($378k) Expenses 7138 ($277k) Net assets 1419 ($429k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (2287)Expenses (7138)Net assets (1419)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 2021 to 2022, from $913k to $1.7M (+90%).

$30k
$380k
$370k
$410k
$913k
$1.7M
$2.4M
$2.8M
$2.8M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2022 89% · 2023 42% · 2024 51% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$13k
’17
−$5k
’18
−$1k
’19
$42k
’20
$30k
’21
$482k
’22
$8k
’23
$54k
’24
$101k
’25
1.3
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed108989
Joined·+2+1+0+1
No longer listed·4010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $11.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER’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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

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

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin27% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)48% · top quartile

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

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER: 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 THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER?
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,526 to it, the largest being BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($6,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,526 in grants to THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER?
BRISTOL COUNTY SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF FALL RIVER 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.

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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