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HOWLAND STONE STORE MUSEUM

EIN 16-1355567 AURORA, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2025
$62,434
Expenses 2025
$72,817

Program services were 0.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 124

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

To promote an interest in and appreciation of the cultural heritage of Southern Cayuga County

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Howland Stone Store Museum tells the story of the Sherwood Equal Rights Historic District, a crucible for reform in the century following 1830. The Howlands and other area residents, inspired by Quaker values, were pioneers in pursuing abolition of slavery, voting rights for women, and education for all. The Museum is housed in the 1837 Slocum Howland Cobblestone Store and in Opendore, the 1910 Isabel Howland estate. The Museum preserves historic sites and makes archival material available for study. Exhibits and programming for all ages, often in partnership with schools and other institutions, connect the cultural heritage of Southern Cayuga County to the world of today. Its collections feature nationally significant women's suffrage campaign materials and the Gutchess women's history archive.

  • Development of the Opendore Property, historic home of Isabel Howland, and improvements to the Stone Store Property, historic site of Slocum Howland's business.

  • Maintain museum open to the public two days per week during summer. Offer additional access by appointment and for scheduled programs.

  • Offer public programs concerning local history, the women's suffrage movement, and other topics.

  • Preserve historically significant collection materials and use them for educational purposes.

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.

  • Kirsten W Gosch

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Marilyn Post

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Bill Schmitt

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12
  • Andrew T Simkin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Lorrie Butcher

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Michael Groth

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Hamilton G Garnsey

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15
  • Larry Bell

    Secretary and Historian

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Jacqueline M Dickinson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

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
    $62,434
    Expenses
    $72,817
    Contributions
    $56,382
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $124,166
    Expenses
    $78,385
    Contributions
    $118,269
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $70,240
    Expenses
    $133,525
    Contributions
    $65,628
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $152,121
    Expenses
    $69,747
    Contributions
    $151,556
    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
    $108,194
    Expenses
    $62,999
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,171,673
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $88,916
    Expenses
    $85,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,122,452
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $432,712
    Expenses
    $105,225
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,100,678
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,724
    Expenses
    $291,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $227,837
  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $69,344
    Expenses
    $12,388
    Assets (EOY)
    $213,962

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2011

Tax period
1 January 2011 to 31 December 2011
Principal officer
Phyllis Stanton
Mailing address
PO Box 124Aurora NY 13026

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.