Vermont · Nonprofit
Thetford Historical Society
Thetford Historical Society (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $59k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Thetford Historical Society does
Mission
To collect, preserve, and display information and artifacts connected with the history of Thetford.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The THS Library was once again open to the public, staffed 2 days per week. We provided assistance to individuals looking into family genealogy and other topics related to our local history. We assisted students at Thetford Academy with their curriculum. We responded to phone and e-mail requests several times each week.
$35,187 spent$25,000 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe THS Barn Museum has been recovering from a 2016 flood and a 2019 car accident. There were no programs or open hours in 2024. Extensive repairs were made. Board members and volunteers worked to prepare a new exhibit space. The THS collection consists of antique furniture, farm implements, and artwork which is housed in the Barn Museum and Historical Library. The entire collection is available for use by scholars, school children, and anyone with an interest in history.
$35,097 spent$25,000 earned by the program41% of program spendingWe had three programs on Forests, co-sponsored with Thetford Libraries and Thetford Conservation Commission. Programs were videotaped. Attendance 250 people. We displayed information at the Thetford Hill Fair, and engaged with 75 residents. We developed a display of Samplers made by residents with ties to Revolutionary-era soldiers from our town and brought this to the Thetford Hill Fair. Our Annual Meeting featured a talk by former VT Attorney General Jeffrey Amestoy speaking about his recent book Winters Time. Attendance 50 people. Members of THS continued to develop and update our walking tour guides. Our Oral History Committee continues interviews with Town elders. Our Fall 2024 Annual Meeting featured a presentation on heirloom fruits and vegetables. Attendance of 60 people.
$16,040 spent$8,634 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $86,324.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.5M to $1.3M (−12%).
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: 2021 0% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Thetford Historical Society’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Thetford Historical Society's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 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.
Government funding Thetford Historical Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15k on record.
- Other Grants$15k
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 Thetford Historical Society
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
19%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Thetford Historical Society: 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 Thetford Historical Society?
- Thetford Historical Society (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Thetford Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to Thetford Historical Society, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Thetford Historical Society?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Thetford Historical Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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