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KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 48-6102800 TOPEKA, KS

Largest nonprofits in Kansas

Revenue 2024
$890,051
Expenses 2024
$2,903,303

Program services were 91.9% 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
6425 SW 6TH AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To support and promote Kansas history education through the Kansas Historical Society.

  • Create an understanding and appreciation of Kansas history through the following: scripts for tours and exhibits at the Kansas Museum of History, the 17 state-owned historic sites, and the Capitol Visitors Center; development of PK-12 curriculum materials for Kansas classrooms, including educational videos and Traveling Resource Trunks; and hosting of special events such as Kansas Day (with roughly 2,000 in-person attendees and over 10,000 virtual participants), standards-aligned guided tours, and living history programs at our one-room 1920s Stach Schoolhouse.Provide funding for the management, acquisition, preservation and online publication of the enduring records of Kansas state and local governments, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps and plans, websites and audio and visual records, in analog and digital formats, in the collections and through the programs of the State Archives.Expend funds to provide benefits to organization members. Funds support the staff, printing, and postage involved with the production and distribution of up to four publications per year.

    Expenses $2,666,699 · Grants $2,536,991 · Revenue -$76,388

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.

  • Gaye Leonard

    Executive Director (Aug - Apr)

    Total calculated
    $63,360
    From this org
    $52,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,277
    Hours/week
    40
  • John D Pinegar

    Interim ED (Jul, May - Jun) & Vice Pres.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Gennifer Golden House

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Clint Patty

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ted Ayres

    President Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rita Noll

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Linda Jeffrey

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Athena Andaya

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Bales

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donita Barone

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael L Baughn

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Boursaw

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emily Bradbury

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Don Chubb

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shelley Hickman Clark

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Crystal L Walker Ecton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dean Ferrell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Hanni

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David Heinemann

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Herrick

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lidia J Hook-Gray

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James F Hoy Jul - Feb

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Hutton

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William A Kassebaum

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vance Kelley

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $890,051
    Expenses
    $2,903,303
    Contributions
    $693,635
    Grants paid
    $2,536,991
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $650,195
    Expenses
    $1,040,423
    Contributions
    $525,070
    Grants paid
    $673,300
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $770,418
    Expenses
    $1,048,521
    Contributions
    $372,588
    Grants paid
    $13,612

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

  • 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
    $1,148,096
    Expenses
    $703,215
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,684,609
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,185,552
    Expenses
    $926,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,147,966
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,553,809
    Expenses
    $770,066
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,952,412
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,445,786
    Expenses
    $927,573
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,196,754
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,133,759
    Expenses
    $916,530
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,567,519
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,046,808
    Expenses
    $916,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,423,234

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

  • Kansas State Historical Society

    $0

    2024 Museum gallery redesign and operational support

  • Kansas State Historical Society

    $0

    2023 Museum gallery redesign and operational support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2022 return

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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.