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NORTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL

EIN 45-0318487 BISMARCK, ND

Revenue 2024
$1,099,524
Expenses 2024
$801,919

Program services were 57.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
418 E BROADWAY AVE STE 8

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

Mission

The North Dakota Humanities Council invests in the people of North Dakota by creating and sustaining humanities programs that provides its participants with a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better vision for the future.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The North Dakota Humanities Council invests in the people of North Dakota by creating and sustaining humanities programs that provide us with a better understanding of the past, a better analysis of the present, and a better vision for the future.

  • WE THE PEOPLE: The We the People The Citizen and the Constitution Program (WTP) promotes civic competence and responsibility among the nation's upper elementary and secondary students. The curriculum is an innovative course of instruction on the history and principles of the United States constitutional democratic republic. The We the People print textbooks' interactive strategies, relevant content, and simulated congressional hearings make teaching and learning exciting for students and teachers. NDHC hosted one teacher institute and one state competition that reached an estimate of 220 students and 17 teachers.

    Expenses $108,266

  • PUBLIC UNIVERSITY: The Study provides live, interactive classes and educational events focused on the humanities - including history, literature, philosophy, civic life, and related subjects - all without grades or tests, aimed at lifelong learners statewide. Classes are led by knowledgeable instructors and offered online and at physical locations. The program reaches an audience of approx. 400 people taking classes.

    Expenses $100,193 · Revenue $8,734

  • REGRANT PROGRAM: Grants awarded to non-profit organizations across North Dakota which supported public humanities projects such as history, language, literature, philosophy, ethics, jurisprudence, archeology, comparative religion, art history & criticism, ethnic studies, social sciences etc. The NDHC has two types of grants available quick grants ($2,000 or less) and large grants (greater than $2,000).

    Expenses $96,241 · Grants $55,788

  • HUMANITIES MAGAZINE

    Expenses $22,869

  • THINK AND DRINK

    Expenses $22,317 · Revenue $4,329

  • HND PODCAST

    Expenses $7,262

  • GAMECHANGER SERIES

    Expenses $10,820 · Revenue $1,452

  • ONE BOOK ONE NORTH DAKOTA

    Expenses $20,085 · Revenue $538

  • CHAUTAUQUA & CHAT

    Expenses $2,603 · Revenue $523

  • BRAVE CONVERSATIONS

    Expenses $70,145 · Revenue $2,169

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.

  • Brenna Gerhardt

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $134,868
    From this org
    $134,868
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    45

  • Nicholas Glass

    Financial Director

    Total calculated
    $79,791
    From this org
    $77,391
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,400
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lyle Best

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Julie Blehm

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Amy Cleary

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • David Ehlis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Melinda Goodman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Angela Gorder

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Harry Hagel

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Trygve Hammer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Dorothy Lick

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Marianna Malm

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Prairie Rose Seminole

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Barb Solberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Michael Tomanek

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Jerod Tufte

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,099,524
    Expenses
    $801,919
    Contributions
    $1,071,453
    Grants paid
    $55,788
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,078,117
    Expenses
    $1,027,166
    Contributions
    $1,051,439
    Grants paid
    $85,747
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,617,965
    Expenses
    $1,640,023
    Contributions
    $1,591,359
    Grants paid
    $435,296

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,234,062
    Expenses
    $1,161,100
    Assets (EOY)
    $606,082

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,187,117
    Expenses
    $1,076,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $549,452

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,072,923
    Expenses
    $1,052,143
    Assets (EOY)
    $865,839

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $802,425
    Expenses
    $785,258
    Assets (EOY)
    $432,746

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $800,325
    Expenses
    $796,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $271,773

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $854,935
    Expenses
    $838,960
    Assets (EOY)
    $331,796

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $807,781
    Expenses
    $800,497
    Assets (EOY)
    $424,394

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $668,916
    Expenses
    $659,502
    Assets (EOY)
    $615,127

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $689,260
    Expenses
    $683,305
    Assets (EOY)
    $449,292

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $608,952
    Assets (EOY)
    $446,070

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.