LINCOLN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 93-0545940 NEWPORT, OR

Revenue 2024: $507,624
Expenses 2024: $610,518

Program services were 77.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A82Z
Classification: 1000
Street: 545 SW 9TH 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 · 2024

Mission

TO COLLECT, PRESERVE, INTERPRET & EXHIBIT OBJECTS AND INFORMATION ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY AND THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST FOR THE EDUCATION AND BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AND FOR THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC AND VISITORS TO NEWPORT OREGON VIA TWO MUSEUMS AND A LIBRARY CONTAINING AN EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, PHOTOS, MAPS, BOOKS, AND NUMEROUS OBJECTS OF INTEREST.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO COLLECT, PRESERVE, INTERPRET, AND EXHIBIT OBJECTS AND INFORMATION ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY, FOR THE EDUCATION AND BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AND OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST. THE SOCIETY AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION WILL ALSO ACT AS A RESEARCH AGENCY AND CULTURAL CENTER.

THE BURROWS HOUSE MUSEUM FEATURES EXHIBITS PROVIDING EDUCATION FOR ITS VISITORS ON THE HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY, THE YAQUINA BAY BRIDGE, AND FEATURES A VICTORIAN PARLOR, A LAW OFFICE, HISTORY OF LINCOLN COUNTY'S FOUNDERS, PHOTOS AND OBJECTS THAT SHED LIGHT ON THE HISTORY OF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST, THE EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY, AS WELL AS HUMAN NATURE AND APPRECIATION FOR CURIOSITIES FROM THE PAST. THE LOG CABIN RESEARCH LIBRARY IS THE DESTINATION FOR VISITORS WHOSE FOCUS IS GETTING ANSWERS TO THEIR QUESTIONS FROM THIS EXTENSIVE HISTORICAL ARCHIVE WHICH INCLUDES HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, BOOKS, RECORDS, NAVIGATION CHARTS, CENSUS DATA, GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION, HISTORIC LITERATURE, NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS AND MICROFILM, ORAL HISTORIES AND MUCH MORE. THE LOG CABIN SERVES INDIVIDUAL VISITORS AS WELL AS GROUPS.

Expenses $104,069 · Revenue $236
THE PACIFIC MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER (PMHC) IS AN IMPRESSIVE HISTORICAL BUILDING ON THE NEWPORT BAYFRONT PURCHASED AND SAVED BY LCHS IN 2004. PMHC IS A MAJOR MUSEUM AND INTERACTIVE CENTER THAT INCORPORATES THE WORKING WHARF OUTSIDE ITS DOORS ON THE BAYFRONT, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, AND LOCAL MARITIME USES WITH MARITIME EXHIBITS AND ART. DESIGNED TO ATTRACT, EDUCATE AND ENTERTAIN ALL AGES, IT ALSO INSTILLS IN LOCAL RESIDENTS A SENSE OF PLACE AND COMMUNITY. PMHC ALSO RENTS ITS FACILITES TO THE PUBLIC FOR PRIVATE EVENTS. THIS MUSEUM CELEBRATES THE HISTORY, ART, DIVERSE CULTURE, COMMERCE AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH THAT IS OF THE OCEAN.

Expenses $368,970 · Revenue $23,391

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.

JAMES BASSINGTHWAITE

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

6
BUD SHOEMAKE

PAST PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

8
BILL HANSHUMAKER

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
LISA FIGUEROA

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

3
JOAN MCADAMS

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

4
BUD LANE

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JON HOLBROOK

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BILL TURNER

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
MIKE EASTMAN

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
SANDY BLACKMAN

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
DEAN FLECK

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
BOB EDER

DIRECTOR POS

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
JEFF SYROP

EXECUTIVE DI

Total calculated

$70,000

From this org

$70,000

From related orgs

$0

Other

$0

Hours/week

40

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

2024

Revenue

$507,624

Expenses

$610,518

Contributions

$471,002

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$548,640

Expenses

$583,824

Contributions

$485,390

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$445,128

Expenses

$497,982

Contributions

$387,044

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$507,624	$610,518	$471,002	$0
2023	$548,640	$583,824	$485,390	$0
2022	$445,128	$497,982	$387,044	$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

$515,816

Expenses

$358,731

Assets (EOY)

$2,801,271
2020 · 990

Revenue

$313,037

Expenses

$351,860

Assets (EOY)

$2,640,289
2019 · 990

Revenue

$450,912

Expenses

$363,150

Assets (EOY)

$2,652,543
2018 · 990

Revenue

$344,222

Expenses

$322,296

Assets (EOY)

$2,565,344
2017 · 990

Revenue

$654,935

Expenses

$314,619

Assets (EOY)

$2,560,335
2017 · 990

Revenue

$654,935

Expenses

$314,619

Assets (EOY)

$2,560,335
2016 · 990

Revenue

$396,960

Expenses

$320,645

Assets (EOY)

$2,319,512
2015 · 990

Revenue

$499,905

Expenses

$293,145

Assets (EOY)

$2,184,318

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$515,816	$358,731	$2,801,271
2020	990	$313,037	$351,860	$2,640,289
2019	990	$450,912	$363,150	$2,652,543
2018	990	$344,222	$322,296	$2,565,344
2017	990	$654,935	$314,619	$2,560,335
2017	990	$654,935	$314,619	$2,560,335
2016	990	$396,960	$320,645	$2,319,512
2015	990	$499,905	$293,145	$2,184,318

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

LINCOLN COUNTY FOUNDATION

$50,000

2023 SUPPORT

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 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.