DALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY HALL OF STATE FAIR PARK

EIN 75-0851204 DALLAS, TX

Revenue 2023: $1,503,366
Expenses 2023: $1,528,726

Program services were 64.5% 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: PO BOX 150038

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.

KARL CHIAO

Executive Dir.

Total calculated

$220,491

From this org

$190,371

From related orgs

$0

Other

$30,120

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$190,371

Bonus

not reported

Other

not reported

Deferred

not reported

Nontaxable benefits

$30,120

Filer's total

$220,491
ED PERRIN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TAYLOR ARMSTRONG

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SCOTT BARNES

Treasurer

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
EVAN BROWN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SHELIA BROWN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JOSIAH M DANIEL III

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LEVI DAVIS

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WAYNE SMITH

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
TOM DUNNING

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SAMANTHA GOLDSTEIN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHARLIE HODGES

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SAM HUFFINES

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
CHARLES LIPSCOMB

Chairman

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
WENDY KRISPIN

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KELSEY LANIER

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MEGAN MYERCORD

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
LAREATHA CLAY

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JACOB NAVARRETE

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SUNHEE HONG

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MATT HOUSTON

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SOL VALLASANA

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SANDY WATSON

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
ROSSER NEWTON

Trustee

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
KAREN FRY WEISBRICH

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, 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

2023

Revenue

$1,503,366

Expenses

$1,528,726

Contributions

$1,211,613

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$807,040

Expenses

$1,232,104

Contributions

$516,807

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2023	$1,503,366	$1,528,726	$1,211,613	$0
2022	$807,040	$1,232,104	$516,807	$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

$1,532,505

Expenses

$1,257,524

Assets (EOY)

$2,271,425
2020 · 990

Revenue

$906,649

Expenses

$938,867

Assets (EOY)

$2,281,069
2019 · 990

Revenue

$823,755

Expenses

$965,285

Assets (EOY)

$1,737,295
2018 · 990

Revenue

$1,210,397

Expenses

$944,704

Assets (EOY)

$1,776,438
2017 · 990

Revenue

$820,525

Expenses

$852,738

Assets (EOY)

$1,552,629
2016 · 990

Revenue

$911,770

Expenses

$891,115

Assets (EOY)

$1,465,317
2015 · 990

Revenue

$806,212

Expenses

$655,070

Assets (EOY)

$1,352,876
2014 · 990

Revenue

$784,051

Expenses

$759,231

Assets (EOY)

$1,264,513
2013 · 990

Revenue

$947,403

Expenses

$794,542

Assets (EOY)

$1,312,818

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$1,532,505	$1,257,524	$2,271,425
2020	990	$906,649	$938,867	$2,281,069
2019	990	$823,755	$965,285	$1,737,295
2018	990	$1,210,397	$944,704	$1,776,438
2017	990	$820,525	$852,738	$1,552,629
2016	990	$911,770	$891,115	$1,465,317
2015	990	$806,212	$655,070	$1,352,876
2014	990	$784,051	$759,231	$1,264,513
2013	990	$947,403	$794,542	$1,312,818

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

STATE FAIR OF TEXAS

$189,500

2023
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS

$123,000

2022
STATE FAIR OF TEXAS

$100,000

2024
DALLAS BAR FOUNDATION

$50,000

2024 Historical Preservation
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$25,282

2022 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$14,688

2024 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS

$11,901

2023 THIS GRANT IS DESIGNATED FOR GENERAL SUPPORT.
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION

$7,500

2022 COMMUNITY EVENT

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 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.