FED OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1000

Street

1530 WILSON BLVD STE 340

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Mission and programs · 2025

• INFORMATION EXCHANGE - THE FEDERATION HOSTS SEVERAL INTERNAL LISTSERVS FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP. ADDITIONALLY, THE FEDERATION SENDS WEEKLY ADVOCACY UPDATES VIA A MEMBER AS WELL AS A NON-MEMBER LISTSERV. MONTHLY DEDICATED E-NEWSLETTERS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT COUNCIL AND FEDERATION ACTIVITIES, ONGOING ADVOCACY EFFORTS, AS WELL AS PARTNER ACTIVITIES IN THE WIDER HUMANITIES COMMUNITY GO TO 1) MEMBERS AND 2) THE GENERAL PUBLIC.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 TWO-DAY EVENT THAT INCLUDES A MEMBER BRIEFING. THE 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 (LAST HELD IN 2024).

  Expenses $520,876 · Revenue $21,409

• 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. DUE TO THE TERMINATION OF MEMBER HUMANITIES COUNCILS' OPERATING SUPPORT GRANTS IN APRIL 2025 THAT LEFT MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND THE CONFERENCE, THE FEDERATION CANCELLED THE 2025 NHC IN DETROIT.

  Expenses $248,586

• 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. IN 2025, THE FEDERATION CONDUCTED BY THE PEOPLE: CONVERSATIONS BEYOND 250, A SERIES OF COMMUNITY-DRIVEN PROGRAMS CREATED BY 51 STATE AND JURISDICTIONAL HUMANITIES COUNCILS IN COLLABORATION WITH LOCAL PARTNERS. TOGETHER, THESE PROGRAMS EXPLORE 250 YEARS OF THE NATION'S CULTURAL LIFE AND IMAGINE ITS SHARED FUTURE. THE INITIATIVE WAS DEVELOPED BY THE FEDERATION AND THE SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR FOLKLIFE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. ALSO IN 2025, FOLLOWING THE SUDDEN CANCELLATION OF HUMANITIES COUNCIL FEDERAL OPERATING GRANTS IN APRIL 2025, THE FEDERATION RECEIVED $15 MILLION FOR EMERGENCY FUNDING TO STABILIZE ALL 56 STATE AND JURISDICTIONAL HUMANITIES COUNCILS. THROUGH THE FEDERATION, EACH HUMANITIES COUNCIL RECEIVED SUPPORT FOR OPERATING EXPENSES IN THE WAKE OF THE NEH ABRUPTLY TERMINATING ALL FEDERAL GRANTS FOR THE COUNCILS.

  Expenses $14,015,777 · Grants $13,870,254

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

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $17,891,277

  Expenses

  $15,445,730

  Contributions

  $17,790,316

  Grants paid

  $13,870,254

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,844,589

  Expenses

  $1,776,698

  Contributions

  $1,389,580

  Grants paid

  $167,011

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,608,567

  Expenses

  $1,640,829

  Contributions

  $1,259,060

  Grants paid

  $40,953

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,523,726

  Expenses

  $1,564,095

  Contributions

  $1,206,660

  Grants paid

  $76,129

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

  $1,107,693

  Expenses

  $1,171,439

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,672,955

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,096,346

  Expenses

  $3,000,538

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,134,986

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,136,337

  Expenses

  $3,052,002

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,382,184

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,227,895

  Expenses

  $1,341,148

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,193,250

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,038,998

  Expenses

  $2,822,787

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,903,836

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,205,440

  Expenses

  $1,198,697

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,074,928

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,205,440

  Expenses

  $1,193,915

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,074,928

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,488,881

  Expenses

  $2,513,516

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,106,124

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,007,521

  Expenses

  $924,086

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,102,945

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $954,270

  Expenses

  $895,790

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,054,205

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

• ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• ARIZONA HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• FLORIDA HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• INDIANA HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• HUMANITIES KANSAS

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• KENTUCKY HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MASS HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES

  $250,000

  2025 · MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

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

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Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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