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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by GETTYSBURG HISTORY.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,248,619
Total expenses
$1,733,087
Contributions and grants received
$1,616,726
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$618,897
Investment income
$71,012
Other revenue
-$58,016
Total assets, end of year
$14,089,231
Total liabilities, end of year
$1,565,535
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$12,523,696
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,141,656
Management and general expenses
$436,188
Fundraising expenses
$155,243
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,141,656

Program services were 65.9% 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.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $96,780

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $330,922

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $40,200

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $1,148,824

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $50,528

  • 2a · Program service revenue: MUSEUM ADMISSION

    total $465,161 · related or exempt $465,161

  • 2b · Program service revenue: EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

    total $129,626 · related or exempt $129,626

  • 2c · Program service revenue: ROYALTIES, BOOKS, & RESEARCH

    total $24,110 · related or exempt $24,110

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $64,807 · excluded $64,807

  • 6a · Gross rents

    real property $93,573

  • 6c · Rental income or loss

    real property $93,573

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $93,573 · excluded $93,573

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $14,261

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

    securities $8,056

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $6,205

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $6,205 · excluded $6,205

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $39,676

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

    $330,922

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $272,558

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$232,882 · excluded -$232,882

  • 10a · Gross sales of inventory

    $239,032

  • 10b · Cost of goods sold

    $157,739

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $81,293 · excluded $81,293

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $99,423 · program services $29,827 · management and general $39,769 · fundraising $29,827

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $574,936 · program services $466,065 · management and general $95,410 · fundraising $13,461

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $67,196 · program services $49,393 · management and general $12,104 · fundraising $5,699

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $51,792 · program services $38,085 · management and general $10,382 · fundraising $3,325

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $455 · management and general $455

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $26,817 · management and general $26,817

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $61,447 · management and general $61,447

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $26,659 · program services $19,604 · management and general $5,344 · fundraising $1,711

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $147,004 · program services $109,011 · management and general $28,777 · fundraising $9,216

  • 20 · Interest

    total $59,523 · management and general $59,523

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $410,913 · program services $302,166 · management and general $82,370 · fundraising $26,377

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $30,829 · program services $22,670 · management and general $6,180 · fundraising $1,979

  • 24a · Other expenses: PROGRAM EVENT EXPENSE

    total $63,187 · program services $63,187

  • 24b · Other expenses: FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT

    total $61,211 · fundraising $61,211

  • 24c · Other expenses: TECHNOLOGY

    total $30,186 · program services $22,197 · management and general $6,051 · fundraising $1,938

  • 24d · Other expenses: ARCHIVE/CONSERVATION SUPP

    total $13,091 · program services $13,091

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $8,418 · program services $6,360 · management and general $1,559 · fundraising $499

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $1,449,219 · end of year $1,889,697

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

    $11,834,592

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

    $1,087,262

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $10,278,410 · end of year $10,747,330

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $736,465 · end of year $968,904

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $269,100

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $271,188 · end of year $214,200

  • 22 · Loans and payables to officers and key people

    beginning of year $800,000 · end of year $1,561,935

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $13,610 · end of year $3,600

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $11,250,468 · end of year $11,248,009

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $671,204 · end of year $1,275,687

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO FOSTER AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CRUCIAL ROLE GETTYSBURG AND ADAMS COUNTY HAVE PLAYED IN SHAPING OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY. WE TELL THE COMPREHENSIVE AND INCLUSIVE STORY OF A COMMUNITY THAT LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON OUR NATION. THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OWNS AND OPERATES GETTYSBURG HISTORY - A NETWORK OF MUSEUMS, EVENTS, AND INITIATIVES INCLUDING GETTYSBURG BEYOND THE BATTLE MUSEUM, THE SHRIVER HOUSE MUSEUM, AND THE GETTYSBURG FILM FESTIVAL.

  • TO FOSTER AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CRUCIAL ROLE GETTYSBURG AND ADAMS COUNTY HAVE PLAYED IN SHAPING OUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY. WE TELL THE COMPREHENSIVE AND INCLUSIVE STORY OF A COMMUNITY THAT LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK ON OUR NATION.

    Expenses $1,141,656 · Revenue $618,897

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jake Boritt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cliff Bream

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Clinton Eppleman

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancie Gudmestad

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Hegeman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Theodore Hirt Esq

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jean Howard-Green

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matthew Lowenthal

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leslie Trew Magraw

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Mock

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elsie Morey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Nichols

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alan Patrono

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Eduardo Ponce

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Rice

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Alisha Sanders

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephanie Shaara

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Sites

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jacqueline White

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Dalton

    PRESIDENT, C

    Total calculated
    $107,272
    From this org
    $99,423
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,849
    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.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Disregarded entities

Part I: entities that legally are the filer and file no return of their own.

  • SHRIVER HOUSE LLC

    MUSEUM · PA

    Directly controlled by ACHS

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
20 August 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202602519349301110

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