- Revenue 2024
- $238,537
- Expenses 2024
- $227,262
Program services were 47.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- PO BOX 432
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
The mission of the Polson Museum is to preserve, promote and present the material, written and photographic history of Grays Harbor County, Washington. The main museum, library, archives and collections storage areas are located within the 26-room, 1924 mansion of timber-heir Arnold Polson. The Polson's Railroad Camp exhibit space, adjacent Hubble House, and Laubach Shop further the museum's mission by providing education, exhibition, collection storage and restoration spaces. In 2023, the Polson Museum acquired the historic 80-acre Camp Klahanee to be added to our portfolio of properties that enhance and support the museum's core mission.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The mission of the Polson Museum is to preserve, promote and present the material, written and photographic history of Grays Harbor County, Washington.
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Regular, ongoing work to maintain, update and create new permanent and temporary exhibits pertaining to the history of Grays Harbor County, Washington. Such work includes the active maintenance, acquisition and cataloging of historical collections for exhibition, educational and research purposes. Work also includes the general administration and operation of the museum.
Expenses $101,186 · Grants $1,500 · Revenue $20,271
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Pioneer of the Year event. Each year since 1980, the Polson Museum has held a special ceremony to honor a long time Grays Harborite who has contributed to the betterment of our county. This event was held in October, 2024 and is a highlight of the museum's annual calendar of events.
Expenses $526
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Photographic scanning and archiving. This multi-year effort continued with more catch up to process new collections that have come into the museum's permanent collection. Images were scanned, identified and sleeved for proper storage as well as information added to our collections database.
Expenses $7,200
As filed on the 2024 return.
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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John Larson
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $82,500
- From this org
- $75,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $7,500
- Hours/week
- 40
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Gloria Callaghan
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Larry Jones
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Diane Muir
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kathy Quigg
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Joyce Thomasson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
Lee Thomasson
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Irene Kennedy
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Moira Connor
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Norm Callaghan Jr
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Ron Loomis
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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JoAnn Brown
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Curtis Steinhauer
Secretary
- 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
- $238,537
- Expenses
- $227,262
- Contributions
- $87,835
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $712,466
- Expenses
- $258,411
- Contributions
- $596,322
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $119,052
- Expenses
- $174,379
- Contributions
- $68,128
- 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
- Revenue
- $276,066
- Expenses
- $183,245
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,214,906
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $201,703
- Expenses
- $193,574
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,064,029
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
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$11,900
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
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2023 TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM.
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$0
2023 CAMP KLAHANEE
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 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.