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LECOMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 23-7381841 LECOMPTON, KS

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Revenue 2024
$219,623
Expenses 2024
$377,345

Program services were 99.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 68

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

A museum to preserve historical information of the first territorial capital of Kansas, Lane University and the Lecompton area. The museum is open to the public free of charge and averages 3500 visitors per year.

  • HISTORIC LECOMPTON WAS THE OFFICIAL TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF KANSAS FROM 1855 TO 1861. LECOMPTON IS KNOWN AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE CIVIL WAR, WHERE SLAVERY BEGAN TO DIE. NINE KANSAS TERRITORIAL GOVERNORS CALLED LECOMPTON HOME. A FREE TOUR INCLUDES A VISIT TO CONSTITUTION HALL WHICH IS A NATIONAL LANDMARK AND A KANSAS HISTORIC SITE. CONSTITUTION HALL WAS ALSO THE SITE OF THE WRITING OF THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION. THE LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION WAS A PRO-SLAVERY DOCUMENT THAT SPARKED A CHAIN OF EVENTS THAT DIVIDED THE NATION AND EVENTUALLY CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR. THE LANEUNIVERSITY/TERRITORIAL CAPITAL MUSEUM CONTAINS 3 FLOORS OF CIVIL WAR, LANE UNIVERSITY AND LECOMPTON ARTIFACTS. ACTIVITIES OF THE LECOMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC INCLUDE MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF THE TERRITORIAL CAPITAL SITE AND FREE PUBLIC TOURS.

    Expenses $374,742

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.

  • Paul Bahnmaier

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Elaine Boose

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Dore Jones

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8
  • Leah Kuhlman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Deb Powell

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Keith Noe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jason Dexter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rick Paslay

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jack Oglesby II

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $219,623
    Expenses
    $377,345
    Contributions
    $134,994
    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

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,986
    Expenses
    $177,281
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,231,400
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $585,391
    Expenses
    $185,789
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,215,958
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $183,705
    Expenses
    $174,783
    Assets (EOY)
    $815,231
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $239,165
    Expenses
    $192,518
    Assets (EOY)
    $806,324
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,570
    Expenses
    $203,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $760,388
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $181,564
    Expenses
    $158,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $762,821
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $123,046
    Expenses
    $137,863
    Assets (EOY)
    $744,345
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $150,959
    Expenses
    $119,381
    Assets (EOY)
    $753,136
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $114,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $721,558
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $88,942
    Assets (EOY)
    $717,003

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 May 2024, reinstated 15 May 2024.

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.