- Revenue 2024
- $427,452
- Expenses 2024
- $283,358
Program services were 47.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 620 W MARKET 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
Mission
To provide records, exhibits, programs and events of historic value for the public.
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Collections and Exhibitions - History, mainly of Allen County and Ohio, is depicted through the collections that are maintained, exhibited and demonstrated. Visitors come to the museum to view the exhibits, do genealogical research, and attend programs & events. The Allen County Reporter which is devoted to scholarly articles about local history topics is also created and published.
Expenses $96,315 · Revenue $9,095
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MacDonell House Exhibit - The MacDonell House, an 1893 Victorian, is maintained to show the daily lifestyle during the Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced in Lima.
Expenses $25,595 · Revenue $4,397
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Education - The museums education department provides free or low cost services to schools, students, children, families and adults through onsite tours, school outreach through the museums traveling trunks program, and various educational programs designed to support the museums mission, local history and exhibitions.
Expenses $13,410
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.
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Michael Baker
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Betsy Billingsley
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Herb Lauer
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
George D MacDonell
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Louis Markiewicz
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Jack Somerville
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Neil Winget
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Anne Decker
Trustee
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ruth Waggoner
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Jim Osmon
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Lawrence Huffman
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $427,452
- Expenses
- $283,358
- Contributions
- $193,893
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $430,986
- Expenses
- $325,264
- Contributions
- $173,163
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $284,750
- Expenses
- $295,408
- Contributions
- $123,833
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $325,864
- Expenses
- $220,118
- Assets (EOY)
- $5,428,844
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $287,903
- Expenses
- $217,397
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,777,077
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $258,601
- Expenses
- $171,521
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,742,609
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $377,413
- Expenses
- $186,239
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,151,288
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $304,038
- Expenses
- $197,150
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,150,975
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $322,874
- Expenses
- $158,955
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,867,465
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $304,822
- Expenses
- $184,575
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,542,909
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $473,050
- Expenses
- $184,876
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,528,342
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $256,256
- Expenses
- $148,403
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,094,737
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $160,777
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,794,976
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
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$20,000
2023 TO SUPPORT HUMANITIES IN THE STATE OF OHIO
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2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
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 11 November 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.