DALLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A54

Classification

1000

Street

411 ELM ST

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Mission and programs · 2024

• THE MUSEUM OPENED IN 1989 FEATURING THE CORE EXHIBITION, JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE MEMORY OF A NATION. LOCATED ON THE SIXTH FLOOR OF THE FORMER TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY BUILDING, CRITICAL EVIDENCE WAS FOUND LINKED TO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963. THE EXHIBITION FEATURES KEY HISTORICAL SECTIONS PROVIDING CONTEXTUAL OVERLAYS FOLLOWING THE PATH OF JOHN F. KENNEDY'S LIFE, POLITICAL CAREER, 1960 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, ELECTION AND INAUGURAL ADDRESS: HIS YOUNG FAMILY AND LIFE IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND KEY ADMINISTRATIVE CRISES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THE INITIAL REASONS LEADING TO KENNEDY'S NOVEMBER 1963 VISIT TO TEXAS ARE ADDRESSED; RECEPTION IN DALLAS; MOTORCADE IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS; DETAILS OF THE ASSASSINATION AND ITS AFTERMATH; MEDIA COVERAGE; MULTIPLE INVESTIGATIONS SURROUNDING THE CASE; EYEWITNESS TESTIMONIALS AND EVIDENCE CAPTURED ON STILL AND HOME MOVIE CAMERA; FORENSIC AND BALLISTIC EVIDENCE; ONGOING QUESTIONS TODAY AND IMPACT OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL LEGACY. IN ADDITION TO ITS CORE EXHIBITION, THE MUSEUM PRESENTS ROTATING SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS DRAWN FROM ITS COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS THAT EXPLORE RELATED HISTORICAL THEMES, DEEPEN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EVENTS OF NOVEMBER 22, 1963, AND EXAMINE THEIR CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE.COLLECTIONSTHE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM AT DEALEY PLAZA'S COLLECTION HOLDS MORE THAN 90,000 HISTORICAL OBJECTS AND MATERIALS RELATED TO THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, THE LOCAL AND GLOBAL AFTERMATH OF HIS TRAGIC DEATH AND THE LEGACY OF HIS PRESIDENCY, WITH ADDITIONAL MATERIALS FOCUSED ON THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE MID-20TH CENTURY DALLAS BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE ASSASSINATION, THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE ASSASSINATION AND THE HISTORY OF DEALEY PLAZA, THE TEXAS SCHOOL BOOK DEPOSITORY BUILDING AND THE JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL. THE MUSEUM'S COLLECTIONS INCLUDE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS, ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS AND AUDIO-VISUAL RECORDINGS INCLUDING EARLY 1960S TELEVISION AND RADIO BROADCASTS, AMATEUR HOME MOVIES AND OVER 2,700 ORAL HISTORIES. THE MUSEUM COLLECTION STRENGTHS RELATE DIRECTLY TO THE SUBJECT OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S LIFE, DEATH AND LEGACY, AND THE MUSEUM STRIVES TO ACQUIRE MATERIALS THAT ARE UNIQUE, ENDANGERED AND/OR PERTINENT TO THOSE SUBJECTS. IN KEEPING WITH THE MUSEUM'S MISSION AND VISION, THE COLLECTION PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES MATERIALS RELATED TO KENNEDY'S LEGACY, SUCH AS CIVIL RIGHTS AND THE SPACE RACE, AS WELL AS LOCAL DALLAS HISTORY. THE ONGOING ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ACTIVELY COLLECTS INTERVIEWS THAT OFFER PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES ON A VARIETY OF RELATED TOPICS. THE MUSEUM PROVIDES MUTI-PRONGED POINTS OF ACCESS TO ITS COLLECTIONS, THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, PUBLIC PROGRAMS, ONSITE RESEARCH IN THE READING ROOM AND INTERNET-BASED ACCESS THROUGH THE MUSEUM'S SEARCHABLE ONLINE COLLECTIONS DATABASE. COLLECTION ITEMS ARE ALSO REGULARLY FEATURED ON THE MUSEUM'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS. THE MUSEUM'S WEBSITE PROVIDES AN ONLINE COLLECTION DATABASE, A DIGITAL RESOURCE WITH ACCESS TO FILMS, NEWSPAPERS, OBJECTS AND OTHER PERMANENT COLLECTIONS ITEMS OR VIA DIRECT CONTACT WITH MUSEUM STAFF. EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMSCREATIVE AND ENGAGING EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH AND PUBLIC PROGRAMMING ARE INTRINSIC TO THE MUSEUM'S MISSION TO SERVE A DIVERSE PUBLIC AND FULFILL A RESPONSIBILITY TO EMPOWER STUDENTS, TEACHERS, ADULTS, YOUTH AND FAMILY AUDIENCES TO UNDERSTAND HOW AND WHY THE PAST IS ALWAYS RELEVANT TODAY. LECTURES, PANEL CONVERSATIONS, LIVE ORAL HISTORY PRESENTATIONS, AUTHOR EVENTS, FAMILY PROGRAMS, HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES, STUDENT TOURS, TEACHER TRAININGS AND INTERACTIVE VIDEOCONFERENCES HELP ENGAGE AUDIENCES THROUGHOUT TEXAS, THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND. THE MUSEUM'S EDUCATION AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS ALLOW AUDIENCES TO EXPLORE SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF THE KENNEDY PRESIDENCY, ASSASSINATION AND LEGACY. IN FY2025, 98 STUDENT GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN SELF-GUIDED TOURS, WHICH SERVED 4,972 STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND CHAPERONES. ADDITIONALLY, 35 STUDENT GROUPS PARTICIPATED IN SELF-GUIDED TOURS WITH A WORKSHOP, WHICH SERVED 1,535 STUDENTS, TEACHES AND CHAPERONES. THERE WERE 11 VIRTUAL DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAMS WHICH SERVED 1,267 PEOPLE DURING FY2025.

  Expenses $3,499,636 · Revenue $5,644,159

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.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $6,907,708

  Expenses

  $6,954,365

  Contributions

  $296,615

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $7,846,959

  Expenses

  $6,528,787

  Contributions

  $485,336

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $6,545,744

  Expenses

  $6,205,620

  Contributions

  $309,474

  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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $11,005,991

  Expenses

  $5,301,975

  Assets (EOY)

  $16,602,486

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,636,701

  Expenses

  $4,769,145

  Assets (EOY)

  $11,613,862

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,916,719

  Expenses

  $5,748,927

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,383,834

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,717,297

  Expenses

  $7,296,707

  Assets (EOY)

  $13,836,416

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $8,001,645

  Expenses

  $6,867,046

  Assets (EOY)

  $12,357,981

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

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $25,100

  2024 · ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

• DOWNTOWN DALLAS INC

  $19,638

  2022 · LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS

• DALLAS TOURISM PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORPORATION

  $12,500

  2022 · CULTURAL ARTS MARKETING GRANT

• COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

  $5,860

  2023 · THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.

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