Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED
HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,054,479 to it, the largest being THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ($370,842). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Historic Boston Incorporated does
Programs
Rental: rental property consists of three historic properties, all redeveloped by hbi. The old corner bookstore, is a commerical building on the official freedom trail site in downtown boston with retail and office space. The vertullo building, the oldest and only surviving wooden commerical building in the clary and locan squares commerical district of hyde park, contains five small businesses and four upper story residential units. The eustis firehouse building, the oldest remaining firehouse in boston, built in 1859, is operated as commercial office space.
$1,010,495 spentReal estate development: represents hbi's efforts to redevelop and rehabilitate at-risk historic properties. A project may be under review, with underwriting and pre-development activity in process for one or several years, in order to plan its redevelopment or to conclude it is not feasible. When a project is ready for redevelopment, hbi arranges financing, investment and private or public funding as appropriate for the property to carry out the plan.
$462,425 spentEasement monitoring: designed to protect significant resources in perpetuity from unsympathetic or inappropriate exterior or interior alterations, neglect, or demolition by means of preservation restriction agreements.
$46,926 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $11M to $13M (+21%).
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
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $44k → $37k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED’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
HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 54% · 2019 68% · 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% — 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.
How long its funders stay
22% of HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $441k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED: 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 HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED?
- HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,054,479 to it, the largest being THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ($370,842). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,054,479 in grants to HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED?
- THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND is the largest funder on record, with $370,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED 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 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing