Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GORE PLACE SOCIETY
GORE PLACE SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,170,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($844,915). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Gore Place Society does
Mission
The mission of gore place is to preserve and promote the 1806 country estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century american life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum operations - Gore Place Society preserves, restores and promotes the early 19th century estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century america. Gore place is a national historic landmark with particular significance for architecture and american labor history. The mansion houses the largest collection of early 19th century boston-made furniture in a historic house. Gore place is accredited by the american alliance of museums. The gore estate has 50 acres of lawns, gardens and farm fields with a 1793 carriage house, an 1806 mansion, an 1835 farm manager's cottage and a small farm of period breeds of sheep and poultry. A year-round calendar of programs includes day and evening tours, exhibits, lectures, dramas, concerts, classroom and family education programs both in the mansion and on the farm, publications, workshops, farm gatherings, farm stand, summer intern program and festivals. The largest event is the annual sheep shearing festival in april. An estimated 30,000 visitors use the estate annually for programs and recreation.
$693,368 spent$123,962 earned by the program85% of program spendingPreservation and restoration - the mansion was designed by rebecca gore and french architect jacques-guillaume legrand after christopher gore had completed diplomatic duty in england. The 50 room brick structure is the oldest surviving elected governor's mansion in massachusetts and is an outstanding example of american neoclassical (federal) architecture. There are high ceilings, marble floors, oval rooms, curved doors and moldings, a full-spiral cantilevered staircase and large windows. Gore place has a program of scholarly research to better understand and interpret how the gores lived on the estate and to guide interpretive planning and programs. A master landscape plan and a strategic plan for the gore place farm guide future preservation of the landscape. Year round education and interpretation programs at gore place attract more than 15,000 visitors each year. Tours in the mansion have multi-sensory touchable objects and guides who are trained in giving tours to visitors with a variety of abilities. There are also costumed guided evening tours. Other programs include seasonal exhibits and lectures, self-guided take-a-walk backpacks for outdoor nature exploration, an outdoor…
$120,800 spent15% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $814,168.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $13M (+15%).
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 1% · 2018 10% · 2019 17% · 2020 6% · 2021 0% · 2022 9% · 2023 8% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of GORE PLACE SOCIETY’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
Gavin Kleespies
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $51k → $180k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 GORE PLACE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
GORE PLACE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 GORE PLACE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 93% · 2019 85% · 2020 70% · 2021 84% · 2022 71% · 2023 77% — 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
38% of GORE PLACE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
75% of GORE PLACE 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. Of the $289k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $881k 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
GORE PLACE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding GORE PLACE SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $255k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$249k
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$6k
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 GORE PLACE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
8%
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 GORE PLACE 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 GORE PLACE SOCIETY?
- GORE PLACE SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,170,387 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($844,915). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GORE PLACE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,170,387 in grants to GORE PLACE SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GORE PLACE SOCIETY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $844,915 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GORE PLACE SOCIETY 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 18 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