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← DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Totals

Total revenue
$7,211,435
Total expenses
$6,771,042
Contributions and grants received
$6,558,369
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$631,907
Investment income
$77,713
Other revenue
-$56,554
Total assets, end of year
$9,505,595
Total liabilities, end of year
$493,746
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$9,011,849
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$4,595,982
Management and general expenses
$1,289,306
Fundraising expenses
$885,754
Program service expenses (Part III)
$4,595,982

Program services were 67.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Mark Albrecht

    2nd Vice Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Akosua Barthwell-Evans

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marc Bland

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence Bluth

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Boehms

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Brown

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Judith Knudsen Christie

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Decker

    Board Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Deutchman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas Dossin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lena Epstein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Fisher Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Gillette Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Neal F Gram III

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Frederick Hall

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Alicia Jeffreys

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsay Joseph

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Kaufman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bernie Kent

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jin-Kyu Koh

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Kosonog

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Lambrecht

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chauncey Mayfield II

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sandy FW McMillan II

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gregory Nowak

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chris Onwuzurike

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeanette Pierce

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslye Rosenbaum

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rick Ruffner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jonathan Rumley

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Schlesinger-Wagner

    1st Vice Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lois Shaevsky

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Sorensen

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ned Staebler

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dante Stella

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kenneth Svoboda

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Van Tol

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camille Walker Banks

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mary Waters

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Markeith Weldon

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elana Rugh

    President and CEO

    Total calculated
    $258,290
    From this org
    $255,733
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,557
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $239,733
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $6,000
    Deferred
    $2,557
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $258,290

  • Matthew Greenough

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $105,661
    From this org
    $104,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,046
    Hours/week
    40

  • Tracy Irwin

    Chief Exhibition Officer

    Total calculated
    $135,135
    From this org
    $119,615
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,520
    Hours/week
    40

  • Douglas Czajkowski

    VP of Development

    Total calculated
    $190,154
    From this org
    $178,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,554
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $170,000
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $3,600
    Deferred
    $1,786
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,768
    Filer's total
    $190,154

  • Rebecca Witt

    Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer

    Total calculated
    $166,650
    From this org
    $165,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,650
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $160,000
    Bonus
    $5,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,650
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $166,650

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Written employment contract
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 7
Annual bonus is performance-based.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
6 May 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202531279349302358

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