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VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 54-0419452 RICHMOND, VA

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Revenue 2023
$24,615,073
Expenses 2023
$14,020,028

Program services were 75.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A800
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 7311

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 · 2023

Mission

CONNECTING PEOPLE TO AMERICA'S PAST THROUGH THE UNPARALLELED STORY OF VIRGINIA. BY COLLECTING, PRESERVING AND INTERPRETING THE COMMONWEALTH'S HISTORY, WE LINK PAST WITH PRESENT AND INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CONNECTING PEOPLE TO AMERICA'S PAST THROUGH THE UNPARALLELED STORY OF VIRGINIA.

  • COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH

    Expenses $3,636,473

  • PROGRAMS AND EDUCATION

    Expenses $6,882,244 · Grants $396,000

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Makola M Abdullah

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • B Marc Allen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Neil Amin

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victor K Branch

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Charles Cabell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victor O Cardwell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Herbert A Claiborne III

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William C Davis

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Melanie Trent De Schutter

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joanie Eiland

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Peter F Farrell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Victoria D Harker

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Russell B Harper

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul C Harris

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Honorable Cn Jenkins Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Edward A Mullen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John R Nelson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kevin B Osborne

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Sargeant Reynolds Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Xavier R Richardson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth A Seegar

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Tracy Walker IV

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Austin Brockenbrough III

    HONORARY VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Harry F Byrd III

    HONORARY VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy H Gottwald

    HONORARY VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $24,615,073
    Expenses
    $14,020,028
    Contributions
    $20,733,579
    Grants paid
    $396,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $11,743,419
    Expenses
    $12,745,939
    Contributions
    $7,430,252
    Grants paid
    $401,206

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
    $15,255,895
    Expenses
    $14,383,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $153,035,924

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $30,481,870
    Expenses
    $8,361,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $152,846,402

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,121,703
    Expenses
    $8,502,174
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,731,441

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,784,369
    Expenses
    $9,207,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $103,432,116

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,002,240
    Expenses
    $8,748,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $93,128,909

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

  • JOHN MARSHALL CENTER LLC

    JOHN MARSHALL LEGACY PRESERVATION · VA · assets $529,159

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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.