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MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 04-2108374 BOSTON, MA

Revenue 2023
$7,150,440
Expenses 2023
$10,548,645

Program services were 58.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A800
Classification
3000
Street
1154 BOYLSTON 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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CATHERINE ALLGOR

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $334,954
    From this org
    $300,763
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,191
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $290,763
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,862
    Nontaxable benefits
    $22,329
    Filer's total
    $334,954

  • AMANDA H CLARK MACMULLAN

    SENIOR VP FOR PROGRAMS & EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $205,141
    From this org
    $176,654
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $28,487
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,654
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,242
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,245
    Filer's total
    $205,141

  • BRENDA M LAWSON

    SENIOR VP OF COLLECTIONS & CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $202,197
    From this org
    $169,944
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,253
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $169,944
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,097
    Nontaxable benefits
    $25,156
    Filer's total
    $202,197

  • VICTORIA MCKAY

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $164,063
    From this org
    $120,620
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,443
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $120,620
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,475
    Nontaxable benefits
    $37,968
    Filer's total
    $164,063

  • PETER DRUMMEY

    CHIEF HISTORIAN & LIBRARIAN

    Total calculated
    $157,577
    From this org
    $144,286
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,291
    Hours/week
    35

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $144,286
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $2,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,691
    Filer's total
    $157,577

  • KANISORN WONGSRICHANALAI

    DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH

    Total calculated
    $142,167
    From this org
    $124,847
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,320
    Hours/week
    35

  • SARA MARTIN

    EDITOR IN CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $141,327
    From this org
    $126,903
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,424
    Hours/week
    35

  • CAROL W KNAUFF

    VP FO PROGRAMS & EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $137,679
    From this org
    $102,806
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,873
    Hours/week
    35

  • MELINDA BARBER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ELIZABETH A CHANG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • MICHAEL A EWALD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANNETTE GORDON-REED

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • SUSAN W HUNNEWELL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • G NATHANIEL JEPPSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • RENE JONES

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ROBERT KWAK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANTHONY H LENESS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ANNE CRAIGE MCNAY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JOHN O'LEARY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • ROBERT G RIPLEY JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • PAUL W SANDMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CATHERINE BABSON JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JAMES SEGEL

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • JUDITH BRYANT WITTENBERG

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • GREGORY GROOVER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

The first 25 listed. 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 — 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,150,440
    Expenses
    $10,548,645
    Contributions
    $3,720,009
    Grants paid
    $148,063
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,698,624
    Expenses
    $9,479,740
    Contributions
    $2,392,568
    Grants paid
    $232,375

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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.