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HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC

HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,550,266 to it, the largest being THE SEALARK FOUNDATION INC ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$940k
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
$1.6M
Grants received
$8.9M
Net assets
14/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−44% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($676k) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($7.2M)2018 Revenue 80 ($542k) Expenses 92 ($1.3M) Net assets 88 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 121 ($821k) Expenses 79 ($1.1M) Net assets 84 ($6.0M)2020 Revenue 138 ($935k) Expenses 81 ($1.1M) Net assets 81 ($5.9M)2021 Revenue 235 ($1.6M) Expenses 92 ($1.3M) Net assets 87 ($6.2M)2022 Revenue 582 ($3.9M) Expenses 99 ($1.4M) Net assets 121 ($8.7M)2023 Revenue 448 ($3.0M) Expenses 103 ($1.4M) Net assets 144 ($10M)2024 Revenue 139 ($940k) Expenses 98 ($1.4M) Net assets 124 ($8.9M)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (98)Net assets (124)Peer revenue range

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.

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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

53% of HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$707k
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$726k
18
$275k
19
$189k
20
$313k
21
$2.6M
22
$1.6M
23
$413k
24
8.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $52k → $106k.

8 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 HIGHFIELD 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

HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

52% 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 HIGHFIELD INC.

39%
largest funder
79%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 97% · 2019 42% · 2020 42% · 2021 37% · 2022 52% · 2023 79%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

64% of HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

52% of HISTORIC HIGHFIELD 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 $739k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $811k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record — $25k federal, $96k state.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
State$96k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$96k

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 HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 16%Fundraising 13%

Governance

12
board members
83%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC HIGHFIELD 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC?
HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,550,266 to it, the largest being THE SEALARK FOUNDATION INC ($600,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,550,266 in grants to HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC?
THE SEALARK FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORIC HIGHFIELD 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 18funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing