Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,531 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,168,104). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Hingham Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The hingham historical society, founded in 1914, is a member-supported non-profit dedicated to collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting the history of the town of hingham, massachusetts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education-in 2024, there were lectures over two separate series: suburbia through april 2024 and then revisiting the american revolution from september through december. Field trips for students in 3rd, 5th, and 11th graders were held throughout the year.
$33,730 spent$53,401 earned by the program7% of program spendingCommunity outreach-in 2024, community outreach included lincoln day and springham
$464,973 spentof which $1,633 as grants$897 earned by the program90% of program spendingThe historic house tour is one of the oldest and longest running house tours in the country. From modest capes to grand estates, the homes showcased each year reveal a network of families, trade, marriage, work and worship that have over almost 400 years made hingham an iconic new england community.
$10,051 spent$37,725 earned by the program2% of program spendingMembership events in 2024 included a new member reception and the harvest supper
$5,657 spent$36,500 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $514,411.
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 2023 to 2024, from $7.0M to $7.4M (+5%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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. 2 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
Deirdre Anderson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $45k → $177k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
89% 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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 83% · 2019 56% · 2020 81% · 2021 84% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — 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
64% of HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
89% of HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC'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 $193k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $225k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$225k
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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,710,531 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,168,104). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,710,531 in grants to HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,168,104 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
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 25 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