Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC
ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,471 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($75,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $238k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Essex National Heritage Commission Inc does
Mission
The organization works to preserve, interpret, and educate the public about the resources of the essex national heritage area by providing grants, planning for cultural and natural resource interpretation, operating educational programs including some through the salem and saugus national historic sites, and promoting the essex national heritage area identity and themes through the development of an integrated marketing and communications program. It is engaged in public-private partnerships that assist the nps, local governments, non-profit organizations, and others in carrying out the programs that recognize the importance of resources within the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization promotes regional sustainability through educational programming and events. The annual essex heritage trails & sails events series is held cooperatively with more than 100 partnering non-profits to recognize and celebrate the region's rich historic, cultural and natural resources. The "park for every classroom" program has become a national model for place based education and community service in grades k-12.the essex heritage future leaders program trains youth to appreciate and support the region's heritage for the benefit of all who live, work and visit the area.
$1,138,960 spentof which $60,500 as grants$1,182,940 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,138,960.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.1M to $2.4M (−22%).
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 78% · 2018 85% · 2019 78% · 2020 89% · 2021 57% · 2022 69% · 2023 83% · 2024 72% · 2025 80%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC’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. 6 of the last 9 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
Annie C Harris
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $6k → $54k.
1 of 12 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 ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION 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
ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 37% — 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
75% of ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
64% of ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION 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. $58 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.
Against its field
ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.3M on record.
- Department of the Interior$7.3M
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 ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC: 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 ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC?
- ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $238,471 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($75,550). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $238,471 in grants to ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION INC?
- EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ESSEX NATIONAL HERITAGE COMMISSION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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