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THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC

THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,732,888 to it, the largest being The Red Sox Foundation Inc ($1,395,539). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.6M
Revenue FY2024
38
Funders on record
$3.7M
Grants received
$735k
Net assets
29/38 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve6.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets -97 ($-185995)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets -68 ($-130161)2019 Revenue 106 ($1.1M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets -22 ($-42796)2020 Revenue 76 ($825k) Expenses 72 ($731k) Net assets 100 ($192k)2021 Revenue 119 ($1.3M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 217 ($417k)2022 Revenue 122 ($1.3M) Expenses 120 ($1.2M) Net assets 273 ($526k)2023 Revenue 148 ($1.6M) Expenses 143 ($1.4M) Net assets 360 ($693k)2024 Revenue 151 ($1.6M) Expenses 158 ($1.6M) Net assets 382 ($735k)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (158)Net assets (382)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 8% · 2023 5% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
17
$56k
18
$85k
19
$93k
20
$227k
21
$117k
22
$166k
23
$42k
24
6.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $121k → $525k.

7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

78% 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 SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC.

37%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 59% · 2019 18% · 2020 88% · 2021 22% · 2022 17% · 2023 19%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

46% of THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
NY
MA
PA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $374k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

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 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.

State$75k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$75k

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 THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 25%Fundraising 0%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND 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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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 THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,732,888 to it, the largest being The Red Sox Foundation Inc ($1,395,539). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $3,732,888 in grants to THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC?
The Red Sox Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,395,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND 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.

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 38funders 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