CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A800

Classification

1200

Street

1 ELIZABETH 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 · 2025

• COLLECTIONS DEVELOPMENT - MANAGES THE DIVERSE COLLECTIONS MATERIALS (BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, FURNITURE, COSTUMES AND MANY OTHER OBJECTS) RELATED TO CONNECTICUT'S MATERIAL CULTURE FROM THE LATE 17TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT.EDUCATION - PROMOTES THE STUDY AND ENJOYMENT OF CONNECTICUT HISTORY THROUGH SCHOOL GROUP AND ADULT PROGRAMS, TOURS AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES.COLLECTIONS ACCESS/RESEARCH CENTER - MAINTAINS AND OPERATES A LIBRARY THAT PROVIDES BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MICROFILMS, GENEALOGY AND OTHER MATERIALS RELEVANT TO CONNECTICUT HISTORY AND MANAGES THE PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE COLLECTIONS USED AND SOUGHT BY RESEARCHERS, GENEALOGISTS AND ACADEMIC SCHOLARS.EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS - DEVELOPS AND DISPLAYS THEMED EXHIBITIONS RELATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF CONNECTICUT HISTORY, ALONG WITH ACCOMPANYING LECTURES AND BOOK TALKS.Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program - Serves as the state's official folk and traditional arts initiative, working with communities to document, present, and sustain valuable cultural heritage.

  Expenses $3,894,999 · Revenue $167,739

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. 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

• 2025

  Revenue

  $6,635,191

  Expenses

  $6,199,161

  Contributions

  $2,848,708

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $2,258,392

  Expenses

  $5,317,249

  Contributions

  $2,027,699

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $4,448,224

  Expenses

  $4,807,039

  Contributions

  $2,813,271

  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

  $6,569,476

  Expenses

  $3,938,568

  Assets (EOY)

  $72,727,103

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,637,982

  Expenses

  $3,514,261

  Assets (EOY)

  $64,248,148

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,584,376

  Expenses

  $3,232,299

  Assets (EOY)

  $58,336,693

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,527,753

  Expenses

  $3,135,926

  Assets (EOY)

  $51,011,045

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $13,975,322

  Expenses

  $3,041,718

  Assets (EOY)

  $56,947,881

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,734,894

  Expenses

  $2,904,695

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,812,230

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $4,232,385

  Expenses

  $2,818,583

  Assets (EOY)

  $45,490,012

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,061,677

  Expenses

  $2,820,907

  Assets (EOY)

  $46,541,998

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,939,549

  Expenses

  $2,901,557

  Assets (EOY)

  $47,502,090

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

• GREATER HARTFORD GIVES FOUNDATION

  $636,192

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $100,000

  2024 · FY2025 ARPA CT CORON

• GREATER HARTFORD GIVES FOUNDATION

  $90,450

  2024 · ARTS AND CULTURE

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $84,900

  2022 · CT CULTURAL FUND OPE

• GREATER HARTFORD GIVES FOUNDATION

  $39,214

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $25,000

  2024 · IMPLEMENTATION GRANT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $24,400

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $21,750

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL

  $20,000

  2024 · PARTNERSHIP GRANTS F

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $18,891

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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

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