Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,770 to it, the largest being NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $922k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $707k
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House Inc does
Mission
To preserve & restore the alcott family home & present educational programs to the community.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
Louisa may alcott's orchard house, inc. (the "organization") is a non- profit corporation organized in massachusetts whose dual mission is to preserve orchard house (c. 1650), the alcott family home where louisa may alcott wrote and set little women (1868), as an historic site and educational center. The organization partially fulfills its mission by conducting public tours, educational programs, special exhibits and events, and offering merchandise to visitors that directly reflect the interests and activities of the alcott family and the time period of interpretation of the site. In further fulfillment of the organization's mission, preservation project work is undertaken on an as-needed basis, and in consultation with respected experts in relevant fields of historic preservation and curatorial conservation, to the collections are made up of artifacts of historical significance, letters, and art objects that are held for educational, research, and curatorial purposes. Each of the items is cataloged, preserved, and cared for, and activities verifying their existence and assessing their condition are performed continuously.
$538,225 spent$439,594 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $538,225.
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 2017 to 2018, from $5.4M to $5.9M (+9%).
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 11% · 2020 15% · 2021 10% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $114k → $161k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE 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
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 53% · 2022 80% · 2023 62% — 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
57% of LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
79% of LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE 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. $166k 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
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,174 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE 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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE 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 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC?
- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $706,770 to it, the largest being NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $706,770 in grants to LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC?
- NEIL & ANNA RASMUSSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 9 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