Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,215 to it, the largest being VAN OTTERLOO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($76,242). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What The House of the Seven Gables Settlement Association does
Mission
Vision: to preserve, share and continue the american story mission: to be a welcoming, thriving, historic site and community resource that engages people of all backgrounds in our inclusive american story. Values: - we value caroline emmerton's founding mission of preserving the legacy of our site to sustain our settlement programs for local immigrants. - we value our designation as a national historic landmark and the preservation of our buildings, collections and gardens. - we value the literary legacy of nathaniel hawthorne. - we value being a center of and for the community. - we value education as a central tenet of our programming.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The house of the seven gables historic site: the gables was founded in 1910 as a historic site and museum with a two-part purpose. Our founder, caroline emmerton, purchased the gables to preserve some of salem's most historic buildings and the literary legacy of author nathaniel hawthorne. Revenues from the museum funded settlement house work with local immigrant communities. Today, the house of the seven gables' campus constitutes its own national historic district on the national register of historic places and was designated a national historic landmark in 2007. Nearly 100,000 visitors from all over the globe visit and tour the historic site annually. Visitors are escorted on guided tours through the house of the seven gables (turner-ingersoll mansion, c. 1668) and nathaniel hawthorne's birthplace, c. 1750. These historic houses serve as the backdrop for stories about salem's maritime history, the life and work of nathaniel hawthorne, and the american settlement house movement. Other major themes include early american architecture, the colonial revival period (when the gables was restored), and material culture over a three-hundred year period. Located on the waterfront, the…
$1,740,660 spent$1,928,075 earned by the program79% of program spendingThe settlement house program: in 1910, the house of the seven gables' settlement association offered programs to provide education and social services for salem's newly arrived immigrants. The gables and its trustees remain committed to maintaining caroline emmerton's visionary settlement model, while reflecting the needs of immigrant communities in 21st century salem. The gables works with a community engagement committee to identify unmet community needs and advise on how the gables can best help meet those needs. In 2024, the gables provided english language courses and citizenship preparation classes to over 500 north shore residents free of charge. The gables also organized and hosted several free public programs highlighting immigrant causes and the diversity of salem, including the annual fusion fest event in august, which drew over 1,100 attendees.
$232,825 spent11% of program spendingMuseum education: the gables values education as a central tenet of our programming. The gables offers structured educational programs to students ranging from grades k-8. These programs provide students with engaging activities that focus on early maritime trade, new england history, and daily life in the past. These programs meet massachusetts history and social studies standards and common core standards for english language arts and literacy in history and social studies. We also offer other public programming designed to engage diverse audiences with our national historic landmark district in unique ways. Educational events include lectures, special exhibits, theatrical performances, community days, hands-on history family programs, specialty tours and partnerships with arts and cultural organizations.
$37,928 spent$12,125 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe gables is committed to carefully stewarding the collections, historic houses and gardens located on the historic site/museum. These components are essential to our mission and are what make the gables a nationally and internationally visited historic landmark site.
$191,340 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,202,753.
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.
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 $4.7M to $5.5M (+17%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $21k → $79k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 53% · 2020 65% · 2021 64% · 2022 45% · 2023 57% — 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
33% of THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
52% of THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION'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 $140k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $150k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$150k
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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $294,215 to it, the largest being VAN OTTERLOO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($76,242). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $294,215 in grants to THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- VAN OTTERLOO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,242 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT 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 17 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