Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$1,844,589

Total expenses

$1,776,698

Contributions and grants received

$1,389,580

Grants paid

$167,011

Program service revenue

$387,433

Investment income

$30,749

Other revenue

$36,827

Total assets, end of year

$2,119,950

Total liabilities, end of year

$1,115,932

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,004,018

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$1,155,263

Management and general expenses

$526,573

Fundraising expenses

$94,862

Program service expenses (Part III)

$1,155,263

Program services were 65.0% 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.

Mission and programs · 2024

• NATIONAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE - ESTABLISHED IN 1978 BY THE FEDERATION,THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE ("NHC") WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AS A RESOURCE TO BRING TOGETHER THE NATIONWIDE NETWORK OF THE STATE AND JURISDICTIONAL HUMANITIES COUNCILS AND THOSE INTERESTED IN ADVANCING THE WORK OF THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES. IN 2015, THE FEDERATION AND THE NATIONAL HUMANITIES ALLIANCE ("NHA") PARTNERED TO MAKE THE CONFERENCE AVAILABLE TO BOTH PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC HUMANITIES PRACTITIONERS TO ADDRESS LOCAL AND NATIONAL CHALLENGES THROUGH THE LENS OF THE HUMANITIES AND TO SPARK INNOVATIVE COLLABORATIONS, CONVERSATIONS, AND RESEARCH WHILE BROADENING THE IMPACT AND RELEVANCE OF THE HUMANITIES IN EVERYDAY AMERICAN LIFE.

  Expenses $461,194 · Revenue $387,433

• INFORMATION EXCHANGE - THE FEDERATION HOSTS SEVERAL INTERNAL LISTSERVS FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP AS WELL AS A MORE GENERAL ONE THAT CONNECTS MEMBERS WITH HUMANITIES STAKEHOLDERS. IN 2024, THE FEDERATION LAUNCHED A NEW CRM DATABASE TO HOUSE STAKEHOLDER INFORMATION, BETTER CONNECT MEMBERS, AND ALLOW FOR SECURE REPOSITORY FOR MEMBER DOCUMENT EXCHANGE.

  Expenses $688,442 · Grants $167,011

• SPECIAL PROJECTS AND OTHER PROGRAMS - THESE PROGRAMS PROMOTE WORKING WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC HUMANITIES AND RELATE TO DISCRETE PROJECTS, WHICH ARE CARRIED OUT WITHIN A SPECIFIED TIME.NEH-FUNDED EQUITABLE ACCESS GRANTS FOR THE NHC - IN 2024, NEH FUNDED 16 HUMANISTS TO ATTEND NHC IN PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. IN 2024, GRANT FUNDS SUPPORTED TRAVEL, REGISTRATION, AND LODGING FOR THE ATTENDEES, WHICH WERE FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS, ENABLING THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND MEET WITH NEH SENIOR LEADERSHIP, INCLUDING THE NEH CHAIR.SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250 - IN 2024, WITH A GRANT FROM THE INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM & LIBRARY SERVICES, THE FEDERATION HOSTED A MEETING AT NHC WITH FIVE HUMANITIES COUNCILS AND THEIR LIBRARY PARTNERS. THE BULK OF THE WORK FOR THIS GRANT HAPPENED IN 2024. THIS PROJECT IS DEVOTED TO POSITIONING COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS TO HELP AMERICANS, WHEREVER THEY COME FROM AND WHOEVER THEY ARE, MARK AND MAKE SENSE OF THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TOGETHER.HUMANITIES ON THE HILL ("HOH") - THE FEDERATION'S ANNUAL ADVOCACY EVENT, WHICH BRINGS HUMANITIES COUNCIL ADVOCATES TOGETHER FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO DEMONSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF FUNDING FOR NEH AND THE NEH FEDERAL/STATE PARTNERSHIP, IS A THREE-DAY EVENT THAT INCLUDES A MEMBERS ORIENTATION AND BRIEFING, CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION, AND A MEMBERS ONLY DEBRIEF. THIS EVENT PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FEDERATION MEMBERS TO MEET WITH THEIR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES, SHARE ADVOCACY BEST PRACTICES, AND PRESENT A UNITED MESSAGE ABOUT THE VALUE OF THE HUMANITIES. OFTEN, CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND STAFFERS SHARE REMARKS AT THE BRIEFING AND CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION.

  Expenses $5,627

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

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

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

• ARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $30,000

  SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250

• ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $30,000

  SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250

• OREGON HUMANITIES

  $26,928

  SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250

• INDIANA HUMANITIES

  $26,275

  SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250

• PENNSYLVANIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $24,908

  SHARING STORIES AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AT 250

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

30 October 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202523039349300622

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