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THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,103,577 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($435,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $3.1M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What Thomas Cole Historic House does
Mission
The thomas cole national historic site preserves and interprets the home, and studios of thomas cole, the founder of the hudson river school of painting, the nation's first art movement. Cole's profound influence on america's cultural landscape inspires us to engage broad audiences through innovative educational programs that are relevant today.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The thomas cole national historic site presents the original home and studios of the artist and early environmentalist thomas cole (1801-1848). Cole founded the hudson river school of american landscape painting, the formative 19th-century art movement of the united states, and advocated for preservation of the natural landscape. Located on 6 acres in new york's hudson valley, the site includes the 1815 main house; cole's 1839 old studio; the reconstructed 1846 new studio building; and gardens and grounds with views of the catskill mountains. It is a national historic landmark and an affiliated area of the national park system. The thomas cole site's activities include guided and self-guided tours, special exhibitions of both 19th-century and contemporary art, print publications, lectures, extensive online programs, school programs, the cole fellowship, free community events, and innovative public programs such as the hudson river school art traila map and website that enable people to visit the places in nature that cole paintedand the hudson river skywalk, a new scenic walkway connecting the thomas cole site with frederic church's olana over the hudson river. The goal of all…
$1,204,662 spent$264,855 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,204,662.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $5.9M to $7.0M (+19%).
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: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 17% · 2020 43% · 2021 27% · 2022 21% · 2023 23% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth B Jacks
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Fox Martin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $57k → $485k.
7 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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
THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 39% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 41% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of the Interior$1.4M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$225k
- National Endowment for the Arts$210k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$190k
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 THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE?
- THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,103,577 to it, the largest being The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc ($435,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $3,103,577 in grants to THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE?
- The Bay and Paul Foundations Inc is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 67 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing