Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HISTORIC SALEM INC
HISTORIC SALEM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,884 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($4,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $9k
- Net assets
- $930k
What Historic Salem Inc does
Mission
Historic salem's mission is to ensure that the historic resources of salem, ma which are the key to its identity, its quality of life and its economic vitality, are preserved for future generations and that new development complements the historic character of the city. Historic salem accomplishes its mission through preservation, education, advocacy and partnership.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Historic salem, inc. (hsi) is one of the nation's oldest preservation advocacy organizations, founded in 1944 to save the historically important jonathan corwin and the nathaniel bowditch houses from demolition for street widening. Later, hsi was a leader in blocking urban renewal in the 1970s. In 2000, hsi retook responsibility for and ownership of the national register nathaniel bowditch house after years of neglect during municipal ownership, restoring its late 18th-century interior. In 2022 we continued significant preservation of the house by replacing the wood shingle roof with historic accuracy. Hsi actively collaborates with and advocates before neighborhood groups, the city, and city boards and commissions on issues ranging from demolition of historic structures and new development to the city's preservation planning and execution. In concert with a neighborhood group, in 2007, hsi saved the 1790s pope house, an early quaker-owned property. In 2022, we successfully advocated for the city amendment of its demolition delay ordinance to enhance protections for buildings 50 to 100 years old. Historic Salem Inc has a positive impact on shaping design proposals for major…
$105,977 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $105,977.
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 2021 to 2022, from $601k to $736k (+23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SALEM 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 SALEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HISTORIC SALEM 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. $84 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.
Government funding HISTORIC SALEM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$50k
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 SALEM 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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC SALEM 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 HISTORIC SALEM INC?
- HISTORIC SALEM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,884 to it, the largest being EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION ($4,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC SALEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,884 in grants to HISTORIC SALEM INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC SALEM INC?
- EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC SALEM 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 3 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