HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

2300

Street

801 K ST NW

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

• The Kiplinger Research Library and our expansive collection documenting everyday Washington are at the core of our institution, representing a starting point, often even a source of inspiration, for the work of academic, community, and student researchers, as well as our own interpretive programming. Our biannual magazine, Washington History, is a platform for sharing the most current findings in our field.

  Expenses $419,215 · Revenue $51,162

• At the Carnegie Library, we present three exhibits. The DC Hall of History introduces the District's history according to four themes (transportation, social life, businesss, and urban development), while featuring an engrossing timeline of DC history. "Class Action: Education and Opportunity in the Nation's Capital" explores how DC's Black communities advocated tirelessly to open up educational opportunities for their children.

  Expenses $882,498 · Revenue $19,003

• We host a wide range of in-person and virtual programs that explore timely and relevant topics in DC history. We present book talks, neighborhood tours, and family-and-house history orientations, among others. Held in the spring, the annual DC History Conference showcases the latest research, projects, and exhibits about the heritage and cultures of DC, its people, and its neighborhoods.

  Expenses $84,670 · Revenue $9,499

• The DC History Center provides programs and services for K-12 educators and students including professional development for teachers, on-site field trips, and curriculum materials supporting social studies teaching guidelines. The DC History Center also serves as the District affiliate for National History Day, a research-based education program for middle and high school students.

  Expenses $199,876

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.

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

  $2,251,730

  Expenses

  $2,367,252

  Contributions

  $1,928,142

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,745,901

  Expenses

  $1,984,825

  Contributions

  $1,385,142

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,890,094

  Expenses

  $1,940,004

  Contributions

  $1,513,390

  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

  $1,782,860

  Expenses

  $1,602,125

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,899,291

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,255,394

  Expenses

  $1,041,365

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,696,403

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $993,806

  Expenses

  $983,630

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,362,954

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,063,139

  Expenses

  $1,277,911

  Assets (EOY)

  $7,302,058

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,997,994

  Expenses

  $1,175,106

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,155,415

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  -$385,894

  Expenses

  $797,690

  Assets (EOY)

  $5,569,893

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $715,431

  Expenses

  $820,293

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,655,225

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $641,458

  Expenses

  $751,880

  Assets (EOY)

  $6,745,267

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

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $122,020

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND

  $100,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND

  $100,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE BESSEMER GIVING FUND

  $100,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $83,900

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $78,675

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC INC

  $66,000

  2023 · 2024 DC HISTORY CONFERENCE PARTNERSHIP AWARD, NATIONAL HISTORY DAY PLANNING, AND VISIONS GRANT

• HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC INC

  $50,000

  2024 · 2025 GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT GRANT

• GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $29,600

  2023 · General Support

• GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2022 · General Support

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

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