Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

Totals

Total revenue: $462,401
Total expenses: $358,097
Contributions and grants received: $44,680
Grants paid: $26,838
Program service revenue: $300,480
Investment income: $117,127
Other revenue: $114
Total assets, end of year: $4,671,952
Total liabilities, end of year: $61
Net assets or fund balances, end of year: $4,671,891
Program services expenses (Part IX): $336,241
Management and general expenses: $21,856
Fundraising expenses: $0
Program service expenses (Part III): $336,241

Program services were 93.9% 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.

1a · Federated campaigns

$0
1b · Membership dues

$30,426
1c · Fundraising events

$0
1d · Related organizations

$0
1e · Government grants (contributions)

$0
1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

$14,254
1g · Noncash contributions included above

$0
2a · Program service revenue: Publications

total $188,432 · related or exempt $188,432 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2b · Program service revenue: Annual Meeting

total $112,048 · related or exempt $112,048 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
2f · All other program service revenue

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
3 · Investment income

total $97,818 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $97,818
4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
5 · Royalties

total $114 · related or exempt $114 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
6c · Rental income or loss

real property $0 · personal property $0
7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

securities $19,309 · other assets $0
7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

securities $0 · other assets $0
7c · Gain or loss

securities $19,309 · other assets $0
7d · Net gain or loss

total $19,309 · related or exempt $19,309 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0
8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

$0
11e · Other revenue, total

$0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

2 · Grants to domestic individuals

total $26,838 · program services $26,838
11c · Fees: accounting

total $16,615 · management and general $16,615
11g · Fees: other

total $39,485 · program services $39,485
13 · Office expenses

total $117,690 · program services $116,195 · management and general $1,495
14 · Information technology

total $8,779 · program services $6,669 · management and general $2,110
19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

total $109,615 · program services $109,615
23 · Insurance

total $1,636 · management and general $1,636
24a · Other expenses: Secretary office expenses

total $34,490 · program services $34,490 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0
24b · Other expenses: Society membership expenses

total $2,949 · program services $2,949 · management and general $0 · fundraising $0

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

beginning of year $63,767 · end of year $89,636
4 · Accounts receivable

beginning of year $10,084 · end of year $6,040
9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

beginning of year $1,325 · end of year $1,638
11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

beginning of year $4,156,695 · end of year $4,574,638
17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

beginning of year $116,468 · end of year $61
27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

beginning of year $2,759,912 · end of year $3,162,910
28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

beginning of year $1,355,491 · end of year $1,508,981

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Society for the History of Technology is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts.

Academic Research Journal Publication. Published four issues of our academic journal (regularly since the 1950s), the leading international publication in our discipline of the history of technology, containing the latest peer-reviewed scholarship in our field, plus book reviews, essays, visual material, and more.

Expenses $198,556 · Revenue $188,432
Annual Research Conference. Held our regularly-scheduled annual conference (meeting for the first time ever in South America), organizing and running six days of meetings in Vina del Mar, Chile, where members presented research papers and discussed teaching; where members had a chance to hear about and inspect the latest books and other publications in our field; where students and new scholars met with senior colleagues and got feedback on their work.

Expenses $81,766 · Revenue $112,048
Awards for Disciplinary Excellence. Selected winners of SHOT's fourteen regular awards, prizes, and fellowships for excellence in research; awarded several dozen travel grants to US and international scholars to support their presentations of their research at our conference; hosted other programs to encourage and recognize good work in our discipline.

Expenses $55,919 · Grants $26,838 · Revenue $10,860

As filed on the 2024 return.

Listed in Part VII

Gabrielle Hecht

President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Deborah Douglas

Vice-President

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jan Korsten

Secretary

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

5
Amy Bix

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Ruth Oldenziel

Editor, Society Journal

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
Angel Callahan

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Adewumi Damilola Adebayo

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Eric Hintz

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Arwen Mohun

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Diana Montano

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sonja Schmid

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Magdalena Zdrodowska

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Ashley Shew

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Matthew Wisnioski

Executive Council Member

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Tiago Saraiva

Executive Member Council

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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: 2024
Filed: 4 November 2025
IRS schema version: 2024v5.0
Source object: 202513169349307736

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