RENSSELAER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

EIN 14-1403569 TROY, NY

Revenue 2024: $1,967,159
Expenses 2024: $714,988

Program services were 74.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A800
Classification: 1200
Street: 57 2ND ST

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

PROMOTE BROAD PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF RENSSELAER COUNTY, NY AND ITS PLACE IN THE REGION, STATE AND NATION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROMOTE BROAD PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK AND ITS PLACE IN THE REGION, STATE AND NATION.

EDUCATION - PROGRAMS AND EXHIBITS TO ENLIGHTEN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS AS TO THE HISTORY OF RENSSELAER COUNTY BY WAY OF DIFFERENT SCHOOL TOURS, AFTER SCHOOL TOURS AND WEEKEND TOURS. SERVED APPROX. 7,000 ON-SITE AND APPROX. 3,400 OFF-SITE.

Expenses $76,633 · Revenue $10,669
CURATORIAL - CARE, ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY OF COLLECTIONS AND POTENTIAL COLLECTIONS. APPROXIMATELY 50,000 LOTS AND THREE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS.

Expenses $446,070
MUSEUM FACILITIES - CARE AND DISPLAY OF THREE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS LOCATED ON THE SECOND STREET HISTORICAL DISTRICT OF TROY, NEW YORK. 1,410 FACILITY RENTALS AND MEETINGS.

Expenses $13,107 · Revenue $26,219

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.

KATHY SHEEHAN

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Total calculated

$75,600

From this org

$75,600

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40
MICHAEL GARDNER II

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WILLIAM P HESSNEY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BETH SCHROEDER

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JAMIE CROUSE

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
FIONA KELLY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MICHELE VENNARD

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JULIAN ADAMS

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JODY BROOKS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EMILY LUDDY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EDWARD GORMAN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CINDY BARFORD

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
STACEY BRIDGE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JEREMY FALLS

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BRENDAN KENNEDY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
STEPHANIE STEWART

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ERIC ANDERSON

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BRIAN CLINE

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JULIA DONNARUMA

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
NANCY KELLEY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MARK ZIELINSKI

TRUSTEE

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$1,967,159

Expenses

$714,988

Contributions

$1,715,331

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$1,873,782

Expenses

$477,448

Contributions

$1,685,902

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$303,386

Expenses

$402,276

Contributions

$227,224

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$370,449

Expenses

$335,809

Contributions

$271,415

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$1,967,159	$714,988	$1,715,331	$0
2024	$1,873,782	$477,448	$1,685,902	$0
2023	$303,386	$402,276	$227,224	$0
2022	$370,449	$335,809	$271,415	$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

$387,210

Expenses

$363,533

Assets (EOY)

$1,644,719
2020 · 990

Revenue

$472,520

Expenses

$310,904

Assets (EOY)

$1,555,247
2019 · 990

Revenue

$454,935

Expenses

$334,315

Assets (EOY)

$1,162,875
2018 · 990

Revenue

$417,023

Expenses

$354,290

Assets (EOY)

$965,605
2017 · 990

Revenue

$461,092

Expenses

$303,896

Assets (EOY)

$964,579
2016 · 990

Revenue

$283,530

Expenses

$308,880

Assets (EOY)

$743,586
2015 · 990

Revenue

$309,485

Expenses

$276,712

Assets (EOY)

$759,546
2014 · 990

Revenue

$233,926

Expenses

$291,133

Assets (EOY)

$728,911
2013 · 990

Revenue

$434,896

Expenses

$284,903

Assets (EOY)

$784,869
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$298,742

Assets (EOY)

$595,746

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$387,210	$363,533	$1,644,719
2020	990	$472,520	$310,904	$1,555,247
2019	990	$454,935	$334,315	$1,162,875
2018	990	$417,023	$354,290	$965,605
2017	990	$461,092	$303,896	$964,579
2016	990	$283,530	$308,880	$743,586
2015	990	$309,485	$276,712	$759,546
2014	990	$233,926	$291,133	$728,911
2013	990	$434,896	$284,903	$784,869
2012	990	not reported	$298,742	$595,746

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

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

TROYREDEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC

$40,000

2023 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC

$16,452

2023 GRANT AWARDED PER THE RECOMMENDATION OF A DONOR ADVISOR AND APPROVED BY CFGCR FOR UNRESTRICTED USE
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION INC

$15,000

2022 GRANT AWARDED PER THE RECOMMENDATION OF A DONOR ADVISOR AND APPROVED BY CFGCR FOR UNRESTRICTED USE
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE

$13,090

2024 CONDITION REPORT (NONPROFIT ARTS/CULTURE APPLICANTS ONLY)
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC

$5,000

2022 UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE

$0

2023 HART-CLUETT HOUSE CONDITION REPORT/HSR UPDATE

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