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HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION

EIN 54-6052540 ALEXANDRIA, VA

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Revenue 2024
$336,611
Expenses 2024
$214,365

Program services were 44.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
218 N LEE ST STE 310

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

THROUGH ADVOCACY, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RECOGNITION PROGRAMS WE ENCOURAGE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND APPRECIATION OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE. SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1954, HAF HAS RAISED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR SURVEYS OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE, PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED BUILDINGS, RESTORATION OF MUSEUM PROPERTIES, AND CONSERVATION OF IMPORTANT HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS. WE INVITE ALL TO JOIN US IN SAFEGUARDING - AND CELEBRATING - ALEXANDRIA'S RICH CULTURAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION WORKS TO PROTECT HISTORIC STRUCTURES AND ARTIFACTS ASSOCIATED WITH ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA.

  • EDUCATION, OUTREACH AND ADVOCACY - HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA FOUNDATION PROVIDES INFORMATION TO PROPERTY OWNERS REGARDING THE HISTORIC AND CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THEIR HOME. IN CONJUNCTION WITH OTHER LIKE-MINDED ORGANIZATIONS, HAF ACTS AS A CATALYST FOCUSING ATTENTION AND ENSURING THAT RESIDENTS ARE FULLY INFORMED REGARDING ISSUES ON ZONING AND PROPOSED BUILDING PROJECTS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT THE HISTORIC NATURE OF THE CITY. DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, THE ORGANIZATION RECEIVED DONATED LEGAL SERVICES WITH AN ESTIMATED VALUE OF $144,434 FROM SIDLEY AUSTIN, LLP. THESE DONATED LEGAL SERVICES ARE CONSIDERED TO BE "IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS AND ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE AMOUNTS LISTED ABOVE OR ON THE STATEMENT OF FUNCTIONAL EXPENSES AND STATEMENT OF REVENUE.

    Expenses $51,200 · Revenue $2,450

  • ALEXANDRIA ACADEMY BUILDING - THE HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA ACADEMY BUILDING WAS OPENED IN 1785 SUPPORTED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON WHO WAS ONE OF ITS ORIGINAL TRUSTEES. THE BUILDING WAS PURCHASED AND RENOVATED BY THE FOUNDATION IN 1995 FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION PURPOSES. THE FOUNDATION RENTS OUT SPACE IN THE BUILDING TO ANOTHER NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION TO HELP DEFRAY THE COST OF MAINTENANCE.

    Expenses $7,604 · Revenue $40,728

  • INDIVIDUALS, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, AND PRIVATE NON-PROFIT OR PUBLIC MUSEUMS MAY APPLY FOR GRANT AWARDS FROM HAF. PROJECTS FUNDED INCLUDE THOSE FOR THE RESTORATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF HISTORIC PROPERTIES IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA; CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC ARTIFACTS IN THE CITY OF ALEXANDRIA; RESEARCH OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES; AND RESEARCH ON ALEXANDRIA'S BROADER ARCHITECTURAL OR CULTURAL HISTORY.

    Expenses $35,743 · Grants $35,743

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.

  • Robert Weinhagen

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25
  • Patrick Burchette

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary Heiden

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ruth B Apelt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leslie Smith Ariail

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sherry Hulfish Browne

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Christina Butora

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sandra Ann Carson MD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Latane Montague

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John S Moran

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Leland S Ness

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • John Thorpe Richards

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gail Rothrock

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary Sparks Sterling

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $48,800
    From this org
    $48,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    30

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
    $336,611
    Expenses
    $214,365
    Contributions
    $212,296
    Grants paid
    $35,743
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $203,796
    Expenses
    $199,372
    Contributions
    $137,771
    Grants paid
    $37,267
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $203,796
    Expenses
    $199,372
    Contributions
    $61,273
    Grants paid
    $37,267
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $169,227
    Expenses
    $240,611
    Contributions
    $51,418
    Grants paid
    $130,000

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
    $254,839
    Expenses
    $142,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,307,122
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $409,763
    Expenses
    $169,106
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,619,739
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $153,530
    Expenses
    $146,119
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,159,421
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $160,825
    Expenses
    $147,994
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,030,377
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $166,261
    Expenses
    $104,347
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,067,355
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $138,645
    Expenses
    $104,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,939,572
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $127,890
    Expenses
    $106,085
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,829,390
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $137,629
    Expenses
    $62,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,783,789
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $94,866
    Expenses
    $124,127
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,769,947
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $58,489
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,703,166

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

  • City of Alexandria (Murray Dick Fawcett)

    $100,000

    2022 To further the mission of the organization

  • 2023 OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • 2023 OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • 2024 OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • CITY OF ALEXANDRIA

    $7,500

    2024 HISTORIC PRESERVATION EFFORTS.

  • 2023 OPERATING SUPPORT

  • 2023 OPERATING SUPPORT.

  • CITY OF ALEXANDRIA

    $5,000

    2023 HISTORIC PRESERVATION EFFORTS.

  • Athenaeum

    $5,000

    2022 To further the mission of the organization

  • Scholarship Fund of Alexandria

    $5,000

    2022 To further the mission of the organization

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.