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WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED

WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,692,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$264k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$6.7M
Net assets
$3.0M
3/5 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Webster Museums Incorporated does

Mission

The purpose of this non-profit organization is to collect, preserve, restore, replicate, and promote all subjects, artifacts, and articles related to the manufacturing/industrial/commercial history that originated in new england.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The purpose of this non-profit organization is to collect, preserve, restore, replicate, and promote all subjects, artifacts, and articles related to the manufacturing/industrial/commercial history that originated in new england.

  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $9,341 spent
    100% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,341.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($292k) Expenses 100 ($319k) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2022 Revenue 274 ($800k) Expenses 122 ($388k) Net assets 116 ($2.9M)2023 Revenue 182 ($531k) Expenses 136 ($433k) Net assets 121 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 90 ($264k) Expenses 107 ($342k) Net assets 118 ($3.0M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (90)Expenses (107)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.0M to $5.5M (+8%).

$5.0M
$5.5M
$5.6M
$5.6M
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 86% · 2022 95% · 2023 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
’21
$412k
’22
$98k
’23
−$79k
’24
1.6
months of
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.

2021202220232024
Listed3333
Joined·+0+0+0
No longer listed·000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $650k → $552k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED’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

WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

61% 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 WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED.

45%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 93% · 2021 84% · 2022 70% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

61% of WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED'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 $2.6M that is directly attributable, 98% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states.

MA
DE

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $6.7M to it.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

3% of spending goes to programs.

Program 3%Management 97%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
50%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

62%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED?
WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,692,000 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,025,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $6,692,000 in grants to WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,025,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WEBSTER MUSEUMS INCORPORATED 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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