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DETROIT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 38-1381144 DETROIT, MI

Revenue 2024
$5,591,690
Expenses 2024
$7,124,319

Program services were 65.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
1000
Street
5401 WOODWARD AVE

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 · 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.

  • John P Decker

    Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Thomas C Buhl

    Past Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Linda Schlesinger-Wagner

    1st Vice Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark J Albrecht

    2nd Vice Chairperson

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elana Rugh

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $294,345
    From this org
    $275,269
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,076
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $239,269
    Bonus
    $30,000
    Other
    $6,000
    Deferred
    $2,707
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,369
    Filer's total
    $294,345

  • Greg Nowak

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dante Stella

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lawrence N Bluth

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lindsay Joseph

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeffrey Lambrecht

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Francis W McMillan II

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kenneth J Svoboda

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Camille Walker Banks

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Markeith Weldon

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Akosua Barthwell Evans

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marc Bland

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Boehms

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Brown

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jim Deutchman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas Dossin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lena Epstein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Fisher Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Gillette Jr

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • F Neal Gram III

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sean Gray

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,591,690
    Expenses
    $7,124,319
    Contributions
    $4,199,877
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,211,435
    Expenses
    $6,771,042
    Contributions
    $6,558,369
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,571,688
    Expenses
    $5,740,337
    Contributions
    $7,988,697
    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

  • 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.

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.