Massachusetts · Nonprofit
CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC
CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,634 to it, the largest being ASIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $619k
What Chinese Historical Society of New England Inc does
Mission
Documenting, preserving, and promoting the history and legacy of chinese immigration in new england.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
General programs - the organization offered one tunney f. Lee memorial lecture event via teleconference (may 18, 2024). On-site events included a lunar new year open-house event, as well as archival visits by students and researchers through the year, and our first in-person annual meeting and dinner banquet since 2019, which celebrates chinese-american history in new england. Additionally, historical lectures about chinatown to students and groups highlighted chsne's year of return to in-person activities, while the organization continued its administrative focus on archiving and organizing its historical holdings.
$29,182 spent$385 earned by the program100% of program spendingHistoric chinatown walking tours - historic chinatown walking tours continued on a limited basis during 2024. Following an historic overview about boston and chinatown histories and the experiences of chinese in the united states and new england, groups of up to 25 are guided to different places within today's chinatown where they receive further historical highlights. Many groups are composed of students from local and new england-area schools and colleges.
$0 spent$1,000 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,182.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $572k to $619k (+8%).
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 2% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $34.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND 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
CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 63% · 2020 92% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
78% of CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44k on record.
- Department of the Interior$44k
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 CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
- CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,634 to it, the largest being ASIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $76,634 in grants to CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
- ASIAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND 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.
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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 2021–2024), and the filings of 7 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