- Revenue 2024
- $407,599
- Expenses 2024
- $315,494
Program services were 70.7% 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
- 200 2ND ST NE
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
Mission
HISTORY IS NOT THE PAST; IT IS THE STORY WE TELL ABOUT THE PAST. EVERY PERSON IN ALBEMARLE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE HAS A UNIQUE AND POWERFUL STORY TO TELL. THROUGH COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND INTERPRETING THE HISTORY OF OUR COMMUNITY, WE ARE COMMITTED TO INFORMING, INSPIRING, AND BRINGING TOGETHER ALL PEOPLE, CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW RELATIONSHIPS AND NEW UNDERSTANDINGS.
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EXHIBITS, COLLECTIONS, & PRESERVATION: ACHS STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS, WORKING WITH LOCAL CITIZENS, COLLECT, PRESERVE, AND EXHIBIT MANUSCRIPTS, PRINTED MATERIALS, ORAL HISTORIES, DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH, AND CULTURAL MATERIALS AND ARTIFACTS SO THAT LOCAL CITIZENS AND VISITORS CAN STUDY THE HISTORY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VA. THE ACHS EXHIBITS ITS COLLECTIONS IN ITS OWN HISTORIC SPACE AND OTHER LOCAL VENUES; PRESENTS HISTORICAL PROGRAMS, LECTURES, AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES; SUPPORTS HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH; PROMOTES THE USE OF THE LOCAL INFORMATIONAL WIKI WWW.CVILLEPEDIA.ORG; MANAGES THE HISTORIC ONE-OF-A-KIND HATTON FERRY ON THE JAMES RIVER; AND PUBLISHES FREQUENT NEWSLETTERS AND AN ANNUAL ACADEMIC JOURNAL. THE ACHS IS LOCATED IN CHARLOTTESVILLE AND SERVES THE COMMUNITIES OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, A TOTAL POPULATION OF 158,948 PEOPLE AS OF THE 2020 CENSUS.
Expenses $59,374 · Revenue $875
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HISTORY PROGRAMS, LECTURES, MEETINGS, EXHIBITS, & OTHER EVENTS: THE ACHS CONDUCTS IN-PERSON AND VIRTUAL PROGRAMS, LECTURES, MEETINGS, AND EXHIBITIONS, MAINTAINS AN ACTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE CONNECTING WITH OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, AND PROVIDES WALKING TOURS TO HIGHLIGHT LOCAL HISTORY. WE OFFER MONTHLY ONLINE PROGRAMS ON VARIOUS HISTORICAL TOPICS, INCLUDING A SPEAKER SERIES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND CONVERSATIONAL INTERVIEWS CALLED UNREGULATED HISTORICAL MEANDERINGS. WE PARTNER IN OUR PROGRAMS AND EVENTS WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS, THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE AND ALBEMARLE COUNTY, THE REGIONAL LIBRARY, AND PUBLIC/PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF OUR LOCAL HISTORY. OUR PROGRAMS CHALLENGE THE LOCAL COMMUNITY TO LEARN FROM THE PAST TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PRESENT BY INTERROGATING THE CIRCUMSTANCES, FORCES, AND CHOICES THAT LED TO CURRENT SITUATIONS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE LARGER WORLD.
Expenses $113,881 · Revenue $8,445
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PUBLISHING NEWSLETTERS AND AN ANNUAL MAGAZINE TO HIGHLIGHT ONGOING HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES.
Expenses $49,742
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.
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DR PHYLLIS LEFFLER
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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DR SHELLEY MURPHY
VICE PRESIDE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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MICHAEL DICKENS
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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LUKE ROARK
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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DANIEL SMYTHE
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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ANGUS ARRINGTON IV
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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PHYLLIS FEIL
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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KATHERINE SLAUGHTER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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TED COATES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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HELICE HENDERSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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OLIVIA BROWN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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BUNNY GIBBONS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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GAYLE JESSUP WHITE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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SAM TOWLER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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TIM MULLINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
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2024
- Revenue
- $407,599
- Expenses
- $315,494
- Contributions
- $385,214
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $305,957
- Expenses
- $291,225
- Contributions
- $286,543
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $368,761
- Expenses
- $332,039
- Contributions
- $358,469
- 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
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2021 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $193,302
- Expenses
- $199,278
- Assets (EOY)
- $165,527
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2020 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $96,099
- Expenses
- $166,783
- Assets (EOY)
- $160,136
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2019 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $56,014
- Expenses
- $125,764
- Assets (EOY)
- $227,889
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2018 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $47,374
- Expenses
- $142,142
- Assets (EOY)
- $282,948
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2017 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $63,409
- Expenses
- $58,250
- Assets (EOY)
- $399,103
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2016 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $40,255
- Expenses
- $78,494
- Assets (EOY)
- $369,755
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2015 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $82,732
- Expenses
- $78,901
- Assets (EOY)
- $360,721
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2014 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $91,266
- Expenses
- $84,855
- Assets (EOY)
- $356,008
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2013 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $156,259
- Expenses
- $107,436
- Assets (EOY)
- $349,597
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2012 · 990-EZ
- Revenue
- $109,855
- Expenses
- $75,600
- Assets (EOY)
- $301,736
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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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
$75,000
2022 SHARP SUBGRANT
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2022 GENERAL PURPOSES
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2022 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 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.