BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

EIN 04-2300187 PITTSFIELD, MA

Browse the largest nonprofits in Massachusetts

Revenue 2025: $265,149
Expenses 2025: $298,424

Program services were 95.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A82Z
Classification: 2000
Street: 780 HOLMES RD

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

Mission

BCHS FOUNDED IN 1962 FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BERKSHIRE COUNTY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION BCHS FOUNDED IN 1962 FOR THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

RECORD, PRESERVE AND COLLECT MATERIAL PERTAINING TO THE HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, AND TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE OBTAINED FROM THAT MATERIAL, THROUGH PRESENATION OF LECTURE SERVICES, EDUCATION, PROGRAMS, WORKSHOPS, CRAFT DEMONSTRATIONS AND CONCERTS.

Expenses $284,339 · Revenue $252,132

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.

Valerie AndersenVALERIE ANDERSEN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Heather ArchibaldHEATHER ARCHIBALD

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Matt BroganMATT BROGAN

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Linda CantoniLINDA CANTONI

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sharon CoeSHARON COE

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
John HamiltonJOHN HAMILTON

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Cornelius Cj HossCORNELIUS CJ HOSS

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jenna SciutoJENNA SCIUTO

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Sarah TrudgeonSARAH TRUDGEON

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Jenna WareJENNA WARE

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
Laurie WernerLAURIE WERNER

DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

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

2025

Revenue

$265,149

Expenses

$298,424

Contributions

$143,103

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$245,825

Expenses

$297,988

Contributions

$121,575

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$382,474

Expenses

$259,068

Contributions

$260,422

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$236,193

Expenses

$264,600

Contributions

$150,061

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$265,149	$298,424	$143,103	$0
2024	$245,825	$297,988	$121,575	$0
2023	$382,474	$259,068	$260,422	$0
2022	$236,193	$264,600	$150,061	$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

$417,899

Expenses

$224,761

Assets (EOY)

$968,163
2021 · 990

Revenue

$417,899

Expenses

$224,761

Assets (EOY)

$955,666
2020 · 990

Revenue

$370,017

Expenses

$173,302

Assets (EOY)

$763,358
2020 · 990

Revenue

$370,017

Expenses

$185,799

Assets (EOY)

$750,861
2019 · 990

Revenue

$150,219

Expenses

$183,595

Assets (EOY)

$566,079

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$417,899	$224,761	$968,163
2021	990	$417,899	$224,761	$955,666
2020	990	$370,017	$173,302	$763,358
2020	990	$370,017	$185,799	$750,861
2019	990	$150,219	$183,595	$566,079

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

UPPER HOUSATONIC VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC

$10,000

2024 BCHS SUMMER PROGRAMS
UPPER HOUSATONIC VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC

$6,880

2022 Summer Programming and Workshops at Arrowhead
THE BERKSHIRE TACONIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$6,500

2024 EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
UPPER HOUSATONIC VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC

no cash amount reported

2023 writers workshop

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.