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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by OLD YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$947,291
Total expenses
$967,693
Contributions and grants received
$274,920
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$119,158
Investment income
$481,813
Other revenue
$71,400
Total assets, end of year
$10,498,554
Total liabilities, end of year
$72,235
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$10,426,319
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$673,256
Management and general expenses
$236,068
Fundraising expenses
$58,369
Program service expenses (Part III)
$673,256

Program services were 69.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $25,110

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $37,378

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $212,432

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $26,771

  • 2a · Program service revenue: PROGRAM SERVICE REVENU

    total $119,158 · related or exempt $119,158

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $119,065 · excluded $119,065

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $368,354

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $5,606

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $362,748

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $362,748 · excluded $362,748

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $5,926

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $37,378

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $10,262

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$4,336 · excluded -$4,336

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $2,556

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $1,655

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $901 · related or exempt $901

  • 11a · Other revenue: OTHER INCOME

    total $74,835 · related or exempt $74,835

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $74,835

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $71,500 · program services $45,760 · management and general $14,300 · fundraising $11,440

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $286,960 · program services $164,543 · management and general $95,207 · fundraising $27,210

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $76,024 · program services $44,602 · management and general $23,225 · fundraising $8,197

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $28,658 · program services $16,813 · management and general $8,755 · fundraising $3,090

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $20,000 · management and general $20,000

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $38,159 · management and general $38,159

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $149,619 · program services $149,619

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $9,028 · program services $1,557 · management and general $5,135 · fundraising $2,336

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $9,751 · program services $1,420 · management and general $8,043 · fundraising $288

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $96,206 · program services $95,094 · management and general $1,112

  • 17 · Travel

    total $147 · program services $132 · management and general $15

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $122,127 · program services $110,713 · management and general $11,414

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $21,490 · program services $17,192 · management and general $4,298

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM SERVICES

    total $14,900 · program services $14,900

  • 24b · Other expenses: TELEPHONE & INTERNET

    total $11,189 · program services $6,536 · management and general $2,711 · fundraising $1,942

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $8,850 · program services $4,375 · management and general $2,331 · fundraising $2,144

  • 24d · Other expenses: BANK AND CREDIT CARD FE

    total $2,351 · management and general $1,363 · fundraising $988

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $734 · fundraising $734

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $297,490 · end of year $294,902

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $95,520

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $1,238

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    beginning of year $1,707 · end of year $1,256

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $3,446 · end of year $8,640

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $4,046,734

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $1,190,231

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $2,779,374 · end of year $2,856,503

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    beginning of year $6,800,818 · end of year $7,337,253

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $25,543 · end of year $65,078

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    end of year $2,500

  • 23 · Secured mortgages and notes payable

    beginning of year $9,560 · end of year $4,657

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $3,612,644 · end of year $3,754,511

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $6,331,846 · end of year $6,671,808

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

THE MISSION OF OLD YORK IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH YORK'S IMPORTANT ROLE I NTHE HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.

  • HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS - THE HISTORIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTIES AND LANDSCAPES THAT OYHS OWNS OR MAINTAINS, TOGETHER ARE ITS SINGLE GREATEST PROGRAM ELEMENT THAT SERVES THE PUBLIC. IN THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025, OLD YORK WAS BEQUEATHED THE HOME AT 68 LINDSAY ROAD, YORK, MAINE. PROBATE IS ONGOING.

    Expenses $233,308 · Revenue $65,903

  • EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS - YORK LIVING HISTORY, THE OYHS HISTORICAL IMMERSION EXPERIENCE FOR ALL FIFTH GRADERS IN THE YORK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ONCE AGAIN WELCOMED STUDENTS IN 2025. OUR HISTORIC BUILDINGS WERE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND CHILDREN 18 AND UNDER WERE GIVEN FREE ADMISSION. OTHER PUBLIC PROGRAMS SUCH AS THE LIVING HISTORY DAY, HALLOWEEN, LIGHTING OF THE PUMPKINS, YULETIDE ACTIVITIES, JULY 4TH, 125TH OPEN HOUSE EVENT, AND FREE ZOOM LECTURES ROUNDED OUT THE YEAR.

    Expenses $227,292 · Revenue $20,238

  • EXHIBITIONS - ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM'S REMICK GALLERY'S BEST OF YORK EXHIBITION INCLUDED A SET OF THREE 18TH CENTURY MOURNING RINGS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PEPPERRELL FAMILY OF KITTERY POINT, MAINE. A CASE IN THE MUSEUM VISITOR CENTER LOBBY FEATURED A SELECTION OF EARLY LOANS TO THE OLD GAOL MUSEUM, PART OF OLD YORK'S CELEBRATION OF THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE MUSEUM. THE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY CONTINUED EXHIBITIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN 2025.

    Expenses $212,656 · Revenue $33,918

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • LYDIA BLUME

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • THOMAS HARDIMANJR

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • CHERYL FARLEY

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MARLA JOHNSON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • CHRISTOPHER AYER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ELAINE BURNHAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ARTHUR BRENNAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • COLEBY MANTZ MANCINI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • ROBERT MCCARTHY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • MEREDITH GOODWIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • TOM DUNN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • HENRY WEEKS TRIMBLE III

    EMERITUS TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • SARAH CARROLL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • LOUISE BAKER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • JOEL LEFEVER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $116,645
    From this org
    $71,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $45,145
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
24 July 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.2
Source object
202612059349301216

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