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BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 39-6053742 BELOIT, WI

Revenue 2024
$542,132
Expenses 2024
$195,559

Program services were 51.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
845 HACKETT 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

THE MISSION OF THE BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS: CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH BELOIT'S HISTORY TO INSPIRE AN INCLUSIVE, INFORMED, AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH BELOIT'S HISTORY TO INSPIRE AN INCLUSIVE, INFORMED, AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY.

  • PROGRAM SERVICES INCLUDE THE OPERATION AND RESTORATION OF THE HANCHETT-BARTLETT HOMESTEAD AND MUSEUM, PROVIDING EXHIBITS OF LOCAL HISTORICAL VALUE AND PROGRAMS FOR THE PUBLIC REGARDING LOCAL HISTORICAL EVENTS, MAINTAINING ARCHIVES, AND PROVIDING HISTORICAL PRESERVATION CONSULTATION. OUR MAJOR PROGRAM OF SERVICE IS PUBLIC EDUCATION. THIS IS MAINLY ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH EXHIBITS AT THE LINCOLN CENTER WHERE WE HAVE A ROTATING SERIES OF SMALL EXHIBITS DURING THE YEAR. WE ALSO HAVE ANNUAL PROGRAMS THAT FEATURE HISTORICAL TOPICS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP AND GENERAL PUBLIC. IN ADDITION, HOUSED IN THE LINCOLN CENTER IS THE SPORTS HALL OF FAME AND THE BELOIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY HALL OF FAME WHICH RECOGNIZES SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS TO THE CITY OF BELOIT. A SECOND MAJOR PROGRAM IS THE CARE AND HOUSING OF OUR COLLECTIONS AT OUR HEADQUARTERS BUILDING LINCOLN CENTER. THESE COLLECTIONS OF OBJECTS, BOOKS, PAPERS, ETC. FORM THE FOUNDATION OF ALL OTHER SERVICES AND PROGRAMMING WE PROVIDE. WE HANDLE HUNDREDS OF RESEARCH REQUESTS FOR GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL INFORMATION. OUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS ARE USED WIDELY BY LOCAL BUSINESSES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

    Expenses $100,291 · Revenue $25,324

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.

  • Richard Dexter

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Jackie Jackson

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Richard Gerhard

    DIRECTOR (THRU MAY)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tom Larson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Ellen Joyce

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Betsy Schmiechen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Preuschl

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Blakely

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Danielle Clifton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Martin Densch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sylvia Lopez

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donna Langford

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $48,000
    From this org
    $48,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    42

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
    $542,132
    Expenses
    $195,559
    Contributions
    $299,723
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $160,593
    Expenses
    $176,177
    Contributions
    $102,822
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $196,481
    Expenses
    $197,833
    Contributions
    $143,582
    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
    $209,904
    Expenses
    $171,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,452,022

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $193,740
    Expenses
    $165,720
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,303,957

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $161,439
    Expenses
    $135,906
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,214,040

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $758,961
    Expenses
    $132,325
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,139,511

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $114,907
    Assets (EOY)
    $605,435

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.