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GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 94-2989004 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,196,397
Expenses 2024
$1,855,506

Program services were 73.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
989 MARKET STREET LOWER LEVEL

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

The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes available to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ history, culture and arts in all their diversity.

  • Archives - The GLBT Historical Society Archives had an extremely successful 2024. We received several important grants, digitized new material, and enriched our holdings with newly accessioned collections. We also continued implementation of our digital asset management system, which provides robust digital infrastructure and helps us better preserve and share digitized and born-digital content. We welcomed over 380 onsite researchers working on many different kinds of projects. We continued to expand our online offerings, making 11 new digital archival collections available. In addition, the archives accessioned 66 new collections in 2024.

    Expenses $601,891 · Revenue $118,768

  • Public Exhibitions - The GLBT Historical Society Museum in San Francisco remains a key setting for the GLBT Historical Society to share our past with LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ publics and to advocate for the preservation of queer history and culture. In 2024, we maintained our COVID-19 safety precautions, continuing to require masks for all guests and staff in the space but no longer requiring proof of vaccination. We presented 3 new exhibitions in the museum space and continued re-building our in-person public programs calendar, hosting 15 in-person public programs and exhibition 4 opening receptions, as well as 1 online workshop. We welcomed nearly 60 schools and community organizations for group tours and nearly 8,000 individual guests visiting the museum. We continue to be specifically guided by the areas of strategic focus as outlined in the society's five-year strategic plan: Women, bisexual people, transgender people, people with disabilities, Black people, Native/Indigenous people, Asian Americans, Latinx people.

    Expenses $418,971 · Revenue $89,260

  • Public Education Program - In 2024, we continued rebuilding our capacity for in-person public programs at our museum site, hosting thirteen in-person public programs (film screenings, panel discussions, performances, and more) and one online workshop. We presented ten talks on LGBTQ history to employee resource groups, nonprofits, and governmental agencies. Our monthly electronic newsletter highlighted work to bring critical lost histories to light and had over 100,000 imprints. We maade 17 grants through our Ten:Tacles Initiative. We also continued our sponsorship of 4 LGBTQ historical projects: an archive, a book, a script, and a historic site.

    Expenses $344,224 · Grants $142,625 · Revenue $205

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.

  • Roberto Ordenana

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $166,689
    From this org
    $154,565
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $12,124
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,565
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $2,400
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,724
    Filer's total
    $166,689

  • Daniel Bao Finance

    Director

    Total calculated
    $40,529
    From this org
    $39,349
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,180
    Hours/week
    17

  • Ben Chavez-Gilliam Co-Chair

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Tali Bray Co-Chair

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Jaime Santos Secretary

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rachel Pokorny Treasurer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Emily Rosenberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Yves Averous

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ani Rivera

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mason J Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lena Wong

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ardel Haefele-Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Thomas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Sue Tiesling

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Siefer

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amy Sueyoshi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Pedro Arista

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew Goudeau

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Francisco Rosas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $3,196,397
    Expenses
    $1,855,506
    Contributions
    $2,989,085
    Grants paid
    $142,625
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,493,897
    Expenses
    $1,346,002
    Contributions
    $1,286,494
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,158,850
    Expenses
    $1,297,913
    Contributions
    $994,741
    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
    $1,392,606
    Expenses
    $1,481,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,305

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,392,606
    Expenses
    $1,481,528
    Assets (EOY)
    $850,305

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,369,746
    Expenses
    $1,350,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $940,164

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,297,694
    Expenses
    $1,293,114
    Assets (EOY)
    $833,234

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,024,752
    Expenses
    $1,037,609
    Assets (EOY)
    $813,624

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,336,259
    Expenses
    $886,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $825,945

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $920,174
    Expenses
    $698,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $354,629

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $562,450
    Expenses
    $570,944
    Assets (EOY)
    $185,825

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

  • CounterPulse

    $30,000

    2024 academic humanities research

  • New Sun Rising

    $20,000

    2024 academic humanities research

  • The Estate of Wendi A Miller

    $7,500

    2024 academic humanities research

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Grants received

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

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.