Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,506,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,227,217). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 157
- Grants received
- $9.5M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Nantucket Historical Association does
Mission
The Nantucket Historical Association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Curatorial & collection care - in addition to the nha's extensive collection of artifacts, it also owns and maintains 18 historic properties, of which many are open to the public. Over 100,000 visitors enter nha properties each year to view items from the permanent collection as well as traveling changing exhibitions. The curatorial department continues to accession gifts to the collection and digitize the images of the collection to make the database accessible worldwide through the internet.
$3,290,725 spent$1,132,571 earned by the program52% of program spendingEducation and public programs - the nha offers a year-round schedule of diverse educational programs at its properties and in local schools. During the summer season, the nha offers daily exhibition tours and walking tours of the island, interpretive presentations, and public access to the discovery room, which is a family learning center. Throughout the entire year, the nha also offers a lecture series, many of which are free to the public. The 1800 house, one of the nha's properties is dedicated to celebrating and reviving nantucket's rich tradition in historic decorative arts and crafts. Courses run from may through october.
$1,963,193 spent$276,371 earned by the program31% of program spendingResearch library - the Nantucket Historical Association research library is a special collections repository of primary resources focusing on nantucket history. The collections contain more than 5,000 volumes and 60,000 photographs, as well as archival documents such as ships' logs, account books, family papers, and scrapbooks.
$1,085,921 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,339,839.
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 $48M to $56M (+15%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 6% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Niles Parker
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Harrison
Research chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 52 funders to 78 funders, grant income rose $451k → $1.2M.
21 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $27k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 funders by total. 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
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
46% 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 NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 13% · 2018 10% · 2019 21% · 2020 12% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 17% — 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
55% of NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 29 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $774k on record — $196k federal, $578k state.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$190k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$6k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$578k
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 NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,506,561 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,227,217). 112 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $9,506,561 in grants to NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 112 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,227,217 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 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 157 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