Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC
HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,808 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,925). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $336k
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc does
Mission
The driving principles of the 19th century coastal lifesavers - skills, courage, and caring - are foundations of the hull lifesaving museum's commitment to impact individual lives for the better. We foster a community dedicated to the preservation of boston harbor's rich maritime heritage and lifesaving traditions through exhibits, collections, open-rowing programs and stewardship of our historic sites.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The museum memorializes and celebrates the lifesaving crews of hull, bringing to life their deeds of selflessness and seamanship that during the final decades of the age of the sail, saved over 1,000 shipwrecked mariners on the shores of hull and cohasset. The museum is open year-round, presenting a permanent exhibit including the original 1889 lifesaving boat "nantasket", three visiting exhibits each year, monthly lecture series, an annual art show and a summer children's program. Dramatically located at the mouth of boston harbor facing boston light, the station is the site of the greatest number of rescues from shipwreck in the country and hosts 12,000 visitors per year.
$157,129 spent$54,212 earned by the program50% of program spendingHome waters program: boston and south shore-based open water rowing and experiential learning programs based on hlm's fleet of traditional coxed four and six oar pilot gigs, immerses hundreds of adults and children year in the values and skills of the 19th century lifesavers. Operations include free rowing programs for boston public school students and adult membership rowing in hull and boston.
$157,128 spent$71,452 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $314,257.
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 2021 to 2022, from $700k to $1.2M (+73%).
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 8% · 2018 5% · 2019 5% · 2020 4% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 22% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income rose $24k → $50k.
2 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM 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
HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
39% 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 HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 53% · 2019 69% · 2020 82% · 2021 36% · 2022 27% · 2023 50% — 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
25% of HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
91% of HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM 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. $103k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $351k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$351k
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 HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM 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 HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC?
- HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $335,808 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($57,925). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $335,808 in grants to HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $57,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HULL LIFESAVING MUSEUM 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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