- Revenue 2025
- $2,361,246
- Expenses 2025
- $1,876,164
Program services were 66.0% 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
- 808 W WASHINGTON 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 · 2025
Mission
WE PRESERVE OUR REGIONS HERITAGE AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THROUGH OUR COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITS, AND PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP AN INFORMED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PAST.
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THE HISTORY MUSEUM PRESERVES OUR REGION'S HERITAGE AND EDUCATES THE PUBLIC THROUGH OUR COLLECTIONS, EXHIBITS, AND PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP AN INFORMED UNDERSTANDING OF THE PAST. IN 2025: - THERE WERE 50,847 ADMISSIONS, 12,155 SCHOOL CHILDREN, 42 RENTAL EVENTS, 59 BUS TUOUR GROUPS,AND 744 MEMBERS. - EXHIBITS INCUDED 3 NEW EXHIBITS IN CHANGING GALLERIES, 3 CARRY-OVER EXHIBITS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AND 1 PERMANENT EXHIBIT. - EDUCATION AND PROGRAMMING - 27 PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND LECTURES, 5 TEACHER EVENTS, 5 PERFORMANCES OF A PLAY, 3 MUSICAL EVENTS. 2,384 CHILDREN PARTICIPATED IN CABIN DAYS PROGRAMMING, PLUS 2,972 PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN OUT TOUCH-A-TRUCK AND TRUNK-OR-TREAT FAMILY EVENTS, AND OUR 40 PODCAST EPISODES RECEIVED OVER 6,000 DOWNLOADS. - FACILITIES - OVER 25 FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS: UPGRADES TO BUILDING MECHANICALS, LIFE SAFTEY, AND GROUNDS/GARDENS. - THE MUSEUM ACHIEVED REACCREDITATION FROM THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS AND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE SOUTH BEND COMMUNITY HALL OF FAME FOR SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDUCATION. EXPENSES REPORTED IN THIS SCHEDULE DO NOT INCLUDE 361,167 OF THE VALUE OF DONATED FACILITIES INCLUDED IN THE ORGANIZATION'S AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS BUT NOT REPORTABLE UNDER TAX LAW.
Expenses $1,238,807 · Revenue $180,442
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.
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BRIAN D HARDING
EXECUTIVE DI
- Total calculated
- $84,990
- From this org
- $84,990
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 39 + 1 related
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JUDI MILLER
DIRECTOR FIN
- Total calculated
- $61,865
- From this org
- $61,865
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 39 + 1 related
-
CARL BUCHANON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DRU CASH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ANDREA CRAWFORD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAKE GRAHAM CPA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARVIN CURTIS EDD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HOPE DAVIS PHD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DIANA HESS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
CATHERINE HOSTETLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SUSAN KING
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATIE KITTS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
DAVID PASTON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MIKE PLENZLER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
PINKY DALAL GABA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KERRY STEPHENS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 0.5 related
-
JAMES SAWDON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
RACHEL TOMAS MORGAN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAKE TESHKA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOHN WINGFIELD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JIM HART
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
-
JENAL ZAK
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HEATHER SHORT PHD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JIM TUESLEY
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CHRIS STRAFFORD
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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, 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
- $2,361,246
- Expenses
- $1,876,164
- Contributions
- $2,125,262
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $2,104,678
- Expenses
- $1,903,073
- Contributions
- $1,870,698
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,771,612
- Expenses
- $1,768,560
- Contributions
- $1,555,582
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $1,833,658
- Expenses
- $1,749,940
- Contributions
- $1,630,334
- 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
- $1,875,609
- Expenses
- $1,698,751
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,839,984
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,708,084
- Expenses
- $1,555,236
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,669,725
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,560,059
- Expenses
- $1,653,547
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,480,446
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,750,175
- Expenses
- $1,800,644
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,545,905
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,848,921
- Expenses
- $1,572,348
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,526,366
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,913,231
- Expenses
- $1,536,449
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,280,189
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,373,656
- Expenses
- $1,441,078
- Assets (EOY)
- $894,183
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,284,844
- Expenses
- $1,505,645
- Assets (EOY)
- $949,930
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,547,772
- Expenses
- $1,526,068
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,204,702
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $1,359,213
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,169,650
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
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2025 FURTHER THE MISSION
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2024 FURTHER THE MISSION
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2022 FURTHER THE MISSION
-
2023 FURTHER THE MISSION
-
2024 Restricted
-
$20,000
2022 EXTERIOR ENHANCEMENT
-
2024 ARTS AND CULTURE
-
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC
$16,000
2022 See Part IV
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 ARTS AND CULTURE
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 on its 2025 return
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NO INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUN
501C3 · SUPPORTING · IN
Declared as related by
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NORTHERN INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
On its 2025 return
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.