Somerset Club

The Somerset Club is a private social club in Boston, Massachusetts that opened to members in 1852, but had origins in related associations dating back to 1826. It is a center of Boston Brahmin families - New England's upper class - and is known as one of the big four clubs in the country, the other three being the Knickerbocker Club in New York, the Metropolitan Club in Washington D.C, and the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco.

The Club is organized under 501(c)(7) Social and Recreation Clubs; in 2025 it claimed total revenue of $3,181,285 and total assets of $15,616,128. The separate Somerset Club Charitable Trust is a 501(c)(3) Private Operating Foundation granting "awards to people who are rendering or have rendered service to the Somerset Club and their immediate family who are in need of financial assistance due to old age, sickness, accident, or misfortune." In 2025 it claimed total revenue of $5,202 and total assets of $243,031.

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