Massachusetts · Nonprofit
OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,290 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocal
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio match
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $38k.
From the IRS filings of OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 44% · 2020 59% · 2021 37% · 2022 54% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 40 organizations near you
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maryland Historical Society Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Preservation League of New York Stateportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $83k on record — $25k federal, $58k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$25k
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$58k
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 OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,290 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ($40,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $138,290 in grants to OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLD COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing