THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER

EIN 38-1791320 BENTON HARBOR, MI

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Revenue 2025: $67,024
Expenses 2025: $117,074

Program services were 77.5% 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: PO BOX 1022

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 ENGAGE THE PUBLIC IN A VIBRANT ORGANIZATION THAT PROMOTES HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH THAT RELATES TO BENTON HARBOR, ST. JOSEPH AND THE SURROUNDING REGION. THE ORGANIZATION SEEKS TO INSPIRE VISTORS TO MAKE A PERSONAL AND EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO THE PAST BY PROVIDING ON-GOING HISTORICAL EXHIBITS AND PROGRAMS THAT ENABLE ALL PERSONS TO SEE THEIR PRESENT AND FUTURE MORE CLEARLY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THROUGH EXHIBITION AND RESEARCH, THE SOCIETY EDUCATES THE COMMUNITY ON HISTORY AND CULTURE.

DURING 2025, SIGNIFICANT TIME AND RESOURCES WERE DEDICATED TO PREPARING FOR THE SALE OF MANY OF THE ORGANIZATION'S ASSETS AND RELOCATING TO A FACILITY BETTER SUITED TO ITS EVOLVING NEEDS. AS PART OF THIS TRANSITION, THE ORGANIZATION CHANGED ITS NAME BACK TO THE FORT MIAMI HERITAGE SOCIETY, REFLECTING ITS SHIFT AWAY FROM OPERATING AS A MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER AND ITS RENEWED FOCUS ON HISTORICAL PRESERVATION, ARCHIVAL STEWARDSHIP, RESEARCH, AND EDUCATION. NEW BYLAWS WERE ADOPTED TO REFLECT THE ORGANIZATION'S REVISED STRUCTURE, PURPOSE, AND MISSION. ONCE ESTABLISHED IN THE NEW LOCATION, EFFORTS FOCUSED ON ORGANIZING, PRESERVING, AND DIGITIZING THE ARCHIVAL COLLECTION, WHILE EXPANDING PUBLIC ACCESS TO HISTORICAL MATERIALS AND IMPROVING THE ORGANIZATION'S ABILITY TO SERVE RESEARCHERS, EDUCATORS, AND THE COMMUNITY.

Expenses $90,736 · Revenue $8,533

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

Sven Erickson DDSSVEN ERICKSON DDS

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

12
Elizabeth GareyELIZABETH GAREY

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Michael GareyMICHAEL GAREY

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
Michael KalinMICHAEL KALIN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Dr Mitzi KalinDR MITZI KALIN

VICE PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0
Mindy O'BrienMINDY O'BRIEN

TRUSTEE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0

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

$67,024

Expenses

$117,074

Contributions

$61,195

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$190,361

Expenses

$326,175

Contributions

$159,929

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$148,227

Expenses

$407,993

Contributions

$109,413

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$307,184

Expenses

$314,006

Contributions

$245,251

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$67,024	$117,074	$61,195	$0
2024	$190,361	$326,175	$159,929	$0
2023	$148,227	$407,993	$109,413	$0
2022	$307,184	$314,006	$245,251	$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

$238,553

Expenses

$244,339

Assets (EOY)

$1,849,547
2020 · 990

Revenue

$259,995

Expenses

$319,634

Assets (EOY)

$1,832,471
2019 · 990

Revenue

$441,492

Expenses

$393,986

Assets (EOY)

$1,919,028
2018 · 990

Revenue

$600,841

Expenses

$512,226

Assets (EOY)

$1,870,643
2017 · 990

Revenue

$441,106

Expenses

$478,579

Assets (EOY)

$1,776,645
2016 · 990

Revenue

$543,108

Expenses

$470,489

Assets (EOY)

$1,804,657
2015 · 990

Revenue

$437,176

Expenses

$472,380

Assets (EOY)

$1,868,300
2014 · 990

Revenue

$533,813

Expenses

$424,552

Assets (EOY)

$2,009,643
2014 · 990

Revenue

$533,813

Expenses

$424,552

Assets (EOY)

$2,009,643
2013 · 990

Revenue

$381,319

Expenses

$399,928

Assets (EOY)

$1,986,536

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$238,553	$244,339	$1,849,547
2020	990	$259,995	$319,634	$1,832,471
2019	990	$441,492	$393,986	$1,919,028
2018	990	$600,841	$512,226	$1,870,643
2017	990	$441,106	$478,579	$1,776,645
2016	990	$543,108	$470,489	$1,804,657
2015	990	$437,176	$472,380	$1,868,300
2014	990	$533,813	$424,552	$2,009,643
2014	990	$533,813	$424,552	$2,009,643
2013	990	$381,319	$399,928	$1,986,536

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

BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$174,272

2023 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING SUPPORT, GENERAL SUPPORT, SUMMER SUNSET SOIREE SUPPORT, PERMANENT EXHIBIT SUPPORT, STABILIZATION, MODERNIZATION, AND OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY OF THE HERITAGE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$94,954

2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$43,566

2024 SPENDABLE DISTRIBUTION, GENERAL SUPPORT, EXHIBIT SUPPORT, MOVING EXPENSE SUPPORT
BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

$35,088

2025 SPENDABLE DISTRIBUTION, GENERAL SUPPORT
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

$10,000

2024 ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES

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 11 November 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.