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POLSON PARK AND MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY

EIN 91-0969501 HOQUIAM, WA

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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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • John Larson

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $82,500
    From this org
    $75,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,500
    Hours/week
    40
  • Gloria Callaghan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • 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
  • Joyce Thomasson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Lee Thomasson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Irene Kennedy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Moira Connor

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Norm Callaghan Jr

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ron Loomis

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • JoAnn Brown

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $238,537
    Expenses
    $227,262
    Contributions
    $87,835
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $712,466
    Expenses
    $258,411
    Contributions
    $596,322
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $276,066
    Expenses
    $183,245
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,214,906
  • 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

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.