Massachusetts · Nonprofit
MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,016 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($190,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $927k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $665k
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Marblehead Museum & Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The marblehead museum's mission is to preserve, protect, and promote marblehead's past as a means of enriching the present. The museum shall collect, study, and conserve such historial materials as related to the town and of the persons whose lives have all contributed to the development of marblehead, and otherwise influenced its history. It shall conserve and preserve relics and property of the past, such as the jeremiah lee mansion and the civil war & grand army of the republic museum, and other property, both real and personal, as may be given, bequeathed, purchased, loaned to or otherwise acquired by the museum. The museum will use the collection for the education, enjoyment, and benefit of the general public. The museum is an educational resource for residents of marblehead,visitors and scholars from around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The marblehead museum achieves its mission to preserve, protect and promote the unique history of marblehead through a variety of programs and initiatives for children and adults. The museum and the lee mansion are open tuesday through saturday from june through october. The museum remains open year round, while the lee mansion is seasonal. Admission to the lee mansion is $10 per person. Approximately 6,000 people visit the museum annually. The museum does not charge admission, and the changing exhibit and the frost gallery are open to visitors. The staff is also available to help with research questions. The museum's third property, the civil war and g.a.r. Museum, is open on saturdays in spring, summer and fall, with no admission charge. Children's programming includes after school workshops, guided tours and activities at the lee mansion and the frost gallery, staff visits to classrooms and intern projects for high school and college students. All children's programming is free. Approximately 1,000 students, from 3rd to 8th grades of marblehead public schools visit annually. An average of 4 to 6 students from local high schools and colleges work one on one with staff throughout…
$332,829 spent$100,057 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe museum has over 60,000 catalogued objects, artifacts and personal papers in its collection, most of the furniture, paintings and decorative arts are on display in the lee mansion. A portion of the museum's collection is available online through the museum's website, marbleheadmuseum.org. The museum's curator works with researchers both in person and through email and telephone requests. Purchases for the museum collection are limited.
The marblehead museum offers changing exhibits, usually two or three each year, in the museum's changing exhibit gallery. In 2022, the museum installed an exhibit of the victorian photography of fred litchman. Other programs include lectures and walking tours.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $332,829.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.5M to $4.2M (+20%).
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.
83% of MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Lauren Mccormack
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $28k → $149k.
5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
66% 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 MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 37% · 2019 58% · 2020 56% · 2021 70% · 2022 59% · 2023 36% — 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
23% of MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
57% of MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 $288k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $377k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$30k
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 MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
59% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $665,016 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($190,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $665,016 in grants to MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 23 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