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HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC INC

EIN 52-1166432 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$3,121,618
Expenses 2024
$2,717,191

Program services were 75.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31Z
Classification
1200
Street
1804 T ST NW

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 ENRICH THE QUALITY OF LIFE, FOSTER INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION, AND PROMOTE CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF LOCAL HISTORY AND CULTURE IN ALL NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE DISTRICT THROUGH HUMANITIES PROGRAMS AND GRANTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO FUND AND CONDUCT HUMANITIES-BASED CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITHIN D.C.

  • EACH YEAR, HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON D.C. (HUMANITIESDC) REACHES THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE, ACROSS ALL AGES AND A VARIETY OF DEMOGRAPHICS, THROUGH ORIGINAL PUBLIC PROGRAMMING, AND COMMUNITY GRANTMAKING THAT SUPPORTS OVER 70 PUBLIC HUMANITIES ORGANIZATIONS, PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS ACROSS WASHINGTON, DC. THESE PUBLIC HUMANITIES OFFERINGS ENGAGE PARTICIPANTS IN DISCUSSIONS ON COMMUNITY HISTORY, SOCIO-POLITICAL ISSUES, LITERATURE, ART HISTORY AND CRITICISM, AND MANY MORE TOPICS CONNECTED TO LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE CITY. THROUGH ITS WORK, HUMANITIESDC REACHES OUT TO ALL EIGHT WARDS.

    Expenses $2,061,787 · Grants $1,333,851

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.

  • Rebecca Lemos-Otero

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $166,628
    From this org
    $153,516
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,112
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,330
    Bonus
    $6,186
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,156
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,956
    Filer's total
    $166,628

  • Cole Fiala

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alison Johnson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heather Clark

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Boss

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nia Crawford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mj Rymsza-Pawlowska

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ayanna Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daryl Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Berger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rubie Coles

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sojin Kim

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denzell Spencer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dawn Fong

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jackie Spainhour

    DIRECTOR UNTIL DECEMBER 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Karen Oliver Director Of

    OPERATIONS UNTIL JAN. 2025

    Total calculated
    $121,173
    From this org
    $101,015
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,158
    Hours/week
    40

  • Alexis Rodriguez Director Of

    OPERATIONS AS OF DEC. 2024

    Total calculated
    $5,625
    From this org
    $5,625
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Lois Nembhard Director Of

    GRANTS & PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

    Total calculated
    $117,186
    From this org
    $100,399
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,787
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $3,121,618
    Expenses
    $2,717,191
    Contributions
    $3,117,294
    Grants paid
    $1,333,851
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,703,437
    Expenses
    $2,766,912
    Contributions
    $2,697,158
    Grants paid
    $1,208,901
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,720,719
    Expenses
    $2,596,603
    Contributions
    $2,719,733
    Grants paid
    $1,150,774

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
    $3,308,620
    Expenses
    $3,194,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $741,220

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,511,008
    Expenses
    $2,235,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $481,615

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,383,453
    Expenses
    $2,471,943
    Assets (EOY)
    $309,311

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,125,197
    Expenses
    $2,177,490
    Assets (EOY)
    $417,891

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,130,237
    Expenses
    $1,319,007
    Assets (EOY)
    $443,015

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,436,363
    Expenses
    $1,278,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $601,373

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $912,285
    Expenses
    $965,594
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,568

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $921,201
    Expenses
    $948,939
    Assets (EOY)
    $402,838

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,037,067
    Expenses
    $959,576
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,758

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

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

Where these grants went next →

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.