CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A82Z

Classification

2300

Street

678 MISSION ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• Library & CollectionsThe CHS Collection represents the environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural heritage of the entire state of California, including materials from outside California that contribute to a greater understanding of the state and its people.The collection comprises a diverse body of materials documenting the history of the state, including: books and pamphlets; manuscript collections; photographs; printed ephemera, periodicals, posters, broadsides, maps, and newspapers; the Kemble Collection on Western Printing and Publishing; works of art, including paintings, drawings, and lithographs; and artifacts and costumes.

  Expenses $454,667 · Revenue $2,539

• Dissolution-----------On July 2, 2024, the Societys Board of Directors voted to dissolve California Historical Society. On July 8, 2024, the Society entered into an Asset Transfer Agreement (the Agreement) with The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford). Under the terms of this Agreement, the Society will transfer all of its assets, including cash, various books and records, collections, library and archival materials, fine arts, artifacts, and any other objects, as well as the Societys intellectual and intangible properties. All assets transferred will be used by Stanford in a manner consistent with the Societys exempt purpose to inspire and empower people to make Californias richly diverse past a meaningful part of their contemporary lives.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $5,326,310

  Expenses

  $7,535,302

  Contributions

  $5,391,443

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $6,609,261

  Expenses

  $2,470,929

  Contributions

  $410,144

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $345,374

  Expenses

  $2,151,738

  Contributions

  $292,600

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $678,059

  Expenses

  $2,305,078

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,156,696

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,015,761

  Expenses

  $1,951,196

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,682,304

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,621,743

  Expenses

  $2,744,399

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,837,553

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,477,489

  Expenses

  $4,572,069

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,347,183

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,653,289

  Expenses

  $3,441,271

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,369,654

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,653,289

  Expenses

  $3,441,271

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,369,654

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,915,889

  Expenses

  $2,589,078

  Assets (EOY)

  $9,167,197

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $117,778

  2022 · ADVISED - FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $109,047

  2024 · FOR GENERAL SUPPORT

• SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION

  $108,374

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE KEMBLE COLLECTIONS AND ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS BY THE PUBLIC. FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2023 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2022 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $15,225

  2022 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $11,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• YERBA BUENA COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT

  $10,000

  2022 · SUPPORT FOR "CALIFORNIA STORIES: REAL LIFE & MYTH MAKING IN THE RANCHO PERIOD"

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