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MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA INC

EIN 41-1308785 LITTLE FALLS, MN

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Revenue 2024
$1,313,591
Expenses 2024
$925,736

Program services were 73.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
15000 HIGHWAY 115

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE MINNESOTA MILITARY & VETERANS MUSEUM SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF HOW ARMED CONFLICTS AND MILITARY INSTITUTIONS HAVE SHAPED OUR STATE AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCE. WE DO THIS BY DOCUMENTING, PRESERVING, AND EXPLAINING MILITARY HISTORY AS IT WAS LIVED BY THE PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA. WE ALSO FUNCTION AS A MAJOR REPOSITORY IN MINNESOTA FOR HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS AND RECORDS OF A MILITARY NATURE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MINNESOTA MILITARY HISTORY THROUGH OPERATION OF A SMALL MUSEUM LOCATED AT A MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING SITE.

  • PRESERVATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MINNESOTA MILITARY HISTORY THROUGH OPERATION OF A SMALL MUSEUM LOCATED AT A MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING SITE.

    Expenses $683,364 · Revenue $39,897

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

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.

  • Mark Ritchie

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dean Ascheman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Crook

    VP FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Winifred Anderson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Brindley

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary Carlberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Billie Defoe

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Dvorak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Haas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Hamlar

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lowell Kruse

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bg Shawn Manke

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Frank Messina

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Paul Monteen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Nash

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Osman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicholas Ostapenko

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Pearson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roger Reinert

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Strusinski

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William Wroolie

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Randal Dietrich

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $87,355
    From this org
    $87,355
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,313,591
    Expenses
    $925,736
    Contributions
    $536,933
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $795,583
    Expenses
    $456,414
    Contributions
    $775,437
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,533,125
    Expenses
    $453,493
    Contributions
    $1,420,059
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $812,814
    Expenses
    $486,520
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,368,510
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,237,699
    Expenses
    $277,997
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,415,804
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $173,331
    Expenses
    $244,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $531,485
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $156,502
    Expenses
    $298,600
    Assets (EOY)
    $455,990
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,209
    Expenses
    $234,492
    Assets (EOY)
    $581,532
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $274,419
    Expenses
    $276,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $570,469
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $267,050
    Expenses
    $288,170
    Assets (EOY)
    $566,663
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $378,788
    Expenses
    $210,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $537,216
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $122,005
    Expenses
    $173,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $385,351

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.

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.