2026-02-17T12:11:57-07:00 2025-06-30 990 2024-07-01 866000027 ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARIZ 5206285774 949 E 2nd St Tucson AZ 85719 David L Nagelski CFO 5206171164 2026-02-17 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z David Breeckner 1300 N College Ave Tempe AZ 85288 4017533 0 X arizonahistoricalsociety.org X State Government 1864 AZ The Arizona Historical Society serves as the steward of Arizona's state history, fulfilling it's mission of "Connecting people through the power of Arizona's History 10 10 42 24 -863 0 3406072 3230706 307723 267229 226169 194463 369333 265746 4309297 3958144 67643 68999 0 0 2686323 2600185 0 0 0 1489652 1494950 4243618 4164134 65679 -205990 5428758 5222285 0 0 5428758 5222285 X The Arizona Historical Society's mission is 'connecting people through the power of Arizona's history'. The Arizona Historical Society serves as the steward of Arizona's history. The vision is the Arizona Historical Society seeks to be the driving force strengthening Arizona's communities by promoting history through leadership, partnership and scholarship. 0 0 403166 301808 Education and Outreach Programs: The Arizona Historical Society (AHS) is the institutional sponsor and state coordinator for National History Day (NHD) in Arizona. NHD is a year-long program focused on historical research, analysis, and creative expression for 6th-12th grade students. The experience culminates in a series of contests at the local and state levels and an annual national competition in the nation's capital in June. With NHD, the students become the historians, building their critical thinking skills, analytical abilities, and confidence. NHD-AZ provides workshops, teacher and judge training, history education resources, and project consultation from staff historians and librarians. Overall, we serve thousands of students in the state. The Outreach program serves 68 Certified Historical Institutions across the state of AZ through grants, museum workshops, history presentations, publications, technical assistance, networking opportunities, and the 'Al Merito" award. The program awarded 32 grants to Certified historical Institutions in AZ this year totaling $33,999. It is a centralized resource for educators and parents looking to share AZ history with their students and children. It is a place to find recordings of programs and digital resources of the AHS. 3517964 3612401 Museums: AHS owns and operations 3 museums in the state. They feature permanent exhibits that give a broad overview of the state's history, with local objects and stories mixed in. Each have rotating galleries that typically feature exhibits about local stories. In addition to the exhibits, the museums offer different topics of history through lectures, book author signings, night at the museum programs, film screenings, and workshops. Tours help bring history to life and include holiday tours. Each Museum is used as a private rental venue for multiple events. 243004 43935 Publications: Published four quarterly issues (approx. 1100 copies each) of the Journal of Arizona History as required by ARS 41-763. These four issues includes original research articles, all of which substantially add to our collective knowledge of Arizona history. They also include book reviews of important books on Arizona, western, and U.S. history, allowing our readership to be aware of relevant books of interest. All current issues of the Journal of Arizona History are now also available digitally on the website of Project MUSE, which is the digital publishing arm of Johns Hopkins University Press. 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The Arizona Historical Society serves as the steward of Arizona's history. The vision is 'the Arizona Historical Society seeks to be the driving force strengthening Arizona's communities by promoting history through leadership, partnership and scholarship. Schedule D, Part V, Line 4 Part V, Line 4, The Ivancovich Trust (Endowment) is to be spent on the acquisition of library resource materials, such as microfilm, publications, manuscripts, photographs and recordings. The McNamee Trust is to be spent on the acquisition of rare books for the library. The Goldberg Family Trust (endowment) is restricted for use by the Library and Archives. 1 Yuma Historical Society 240 S Madison Ave Yuma AZ 85634 866000027 25000 other Assist with repairs of historic site 0 0 Grant to the Yuma Historical Society to assist with repairs for a historic site 1 25000 0 other Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 Part I, Line 2 The organization has a grants coordinator who monitors and maintains all grants applied, approved, requested, and denied. Once a grant has been approved for funding the financial team will generate a new function code within the larger major program in the budget tracking software and will assign this new grant its unique identifier and funding pool. X 0 no accessed value X 429 0 No assessed value 0 0 1 0 Schedule M, Part I, Line 4 No resale value Schedule M, Part I, Line 22 No value assessed. No resale value. Form 990, Part I, Line 1 The Arizona Historical Society serves as the steward of Arizona's state history, fulfilling it's mission of "Connecting people through the power of Arizona's History Form 990, Part III, Line 1 The Arizona Historical Society's mission is 'connecting people through the power of Arizona's history'. The Arizona Historical Society serves as the steward of Arizona's history. The vision is 'the Arizona Historical Society seeks to be the driving force strengthening Arizona's communities by promoting history through leadership, partnership and scholarship Form 990, Part III, Line 4a 990 Part III, Line 4a, Education and Outreach Programs: The Arizona Historical Society (AHS) is the institutional sponsor and state coordinator for National History Day (NHD) in Arizona. NHD is a year-long program focused on historical research, analysis, and creative expression for 6th-12th grade students. The experience culminates in a series of contests at the local and state levels and an annual national competition in the nation's capital in June. With NHD, the students become the historians, building their critical thinking skills, analytical abilities, and confidence. NHD-AZ provides workshops, teacher and judge training, history education resources, and project consultation from staff historians and librarians. Overall, we serve thousands of students and currently have 4 regional contests and one state contest. The Outreach program serves 63 Certified Historical Institutions across the state of AZ through grants, museum workshops, history presentations, publications, technical assistance, networking opportunities, and the 'Al Merito" award. The program awarded 32 grants to Certified historical Institutions in AZ this year totaling $33,999. The AZ Digital Hub was developed in response to COVID-19. It is a centralized resource for educators and parents looking to share AZ history with their students and children. It is a place to find recordings of programs and digital resources of the AHS. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b Form 990, Part III, Line 4b - Museums: AHS owns and operations 3 museums in the state. They feature permanent exhibits that give a broad overview of the state's history, with local objects and stories mixed in. Each have rotating galleries that typically feature a new exhibits periodically. In addition to the exhibits, the museums offer different topics of history through tours, lectures, book author signings, night at the museum programs, film screenings, workshops and special events. Each Museum is used as a private rental venue for multiple events. Form 990, Part III, Line 4c Form 990, Part III, Line 4c - Publications: Published four quarterly issues (approx. 1100 copies each) of the Journal of Arizona History as required by ARS 41-763. These four issues included original research articles, all of which substantially add to our collective knowledge of Arizona history. They also include book reviews of important books on Arizona, western, and U.S. history, allowing our readership to be aware of relevant books of interest. All current issues of the Journal of Arizona History are now also available digitally on the website of Project MUSE, which is the digital publishing arm of Johns Hopkins University Press. As of FY 2024 our articles and book reviews were available on this site. In addition, all issues of the Journal of Arizona History are available on JSTOR, an online journal database that is available throughout the United States and around the globe. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b - 990 Part VI, Section B, Line 11a, the 990 form and applicable documents are sent to the Finance Committee prior to submission. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c - the organization follows strict bylaws and state and federal laws pertaining to all operational and financial policies, decisions, and applicable statues. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 - We conduct monthly and quarterly public meetings with our board of directors as well as finance committee. Human Resources fills the Chief Compliance Officer billet and manages Federal and State requirements and training for the organization. Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e Form 990, Part IX, Line 24e - The major components included in this number are utilities $392995, rental expenditures $43343, R&M $423418, Misc. operating expense $91777. Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 - This balance was created by fundraising expenses exceeding fundraising revenues.