2024-05-15T12:02:53-07:00 2023-12-31 990 2023-01-01 911500032 GRANITE FALLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY GRAN 3606912603 PO Box 1414 Granite Falls WA 98252 Scott Bower Treasurer 4258793278 2024-04-19 Scott Bower 999009999 1 1 11 1 AAL2 2023 2023-04-26 12:10:37Z Scott Bower PO Box 1934 Granite Falls WA 98252 56815 0 X www.gfhistory.org X 1971 WA Historical Museum - gather and preserve artifacts, pictures, and documents describing the history of Granite Falls WA and the surrounding area, providing physical and online access to all. 9 9 0 27 13550 0 18036 22361 58712 20904 -5893 13550 2907 0 73762 56815 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 35174 59155 35174 59155 38588 -2340 621070 1066503 0 0 621070 1066503 X The Society's mission is to collect, preserve and share the history of the Granite Falls region. We locate, identify, and collect appropriate material, protect and interpret that material, and finally make it available to the greatest possible extent. That includes museum operation, County-wide heritage community involvement, and live and online educational access to our collections. 0 0 14360 0 9687 MUSEUM OPERATION - Our major expense is the operation of the physical museum. Occupancy, insurance, depreciation, and construction/equipment top the list. Revenue is the admission/donation box. While admission to the museum is free, we received $12,035.25 in donations and grants specifically for museum expansion and equipment, and those are considered revenue here because their use was restricted solely to physical museum improvement. We were open every Sunday in 2023, and opened over 30 times for out-of-town visitors or organizations requesting a tour who phoned in to arrange weekday visits. 40874 20904 0 HERITAGE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT - Our second largest expense is typically our involvement in the county's heritage community, particularly in providing online resources useful for research and/or historic tourism. Online hosting expenses continued throughout 2023, including those for online maps, rural historic cyber-tours, and countywide online museum tours. Some of these expenses are reimbursable by a historic fund and are shown as grants. Timing of reimbursements cause yearly variations. In 2023, we updated and expanded the county-wide online museums tour (and were reimbursed $1,404) We digitized historic County newspapers (and were reimbursed $19,500). We provided historical orientation presentations for several antique automobile touring clubs. We also provided technical instruction to several county genealogical societies who were struggling to improve their organizational technology skills, specifically aimed at helping them in the use of new digital scanning equipment. 1766 0 2348 EDUCATION: We maintain a strong online presence, coupled with a broadly-distributed newsletter. Since we are an all-volunteer organization, our office ($209) and IT ($1557) expenses are focused on continual educational awareness of, and access to, our collection. School class visits were reestablished in 2022, hosting classes for those grades who had to forego a museum tour during the COVID shutdown. A total of 47 class presentation were provided to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students. A number of printed pictures and documents were provided to local and online researchers, printing fees shown as revenue. 157 0 0 Safety Deposit Box, AASLH Membership, Fire Inspection 157 0 0 57157 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 9 9 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 WA X Scott Bower 4258793278 PO Box 1414 Granite Falls WA 98252 Regina Jones Board member 2 0 X 0 0 0 Marcia Day Board member 4 0 X 0 0 0 Scott Bower Board Treasurer 6.00 0 X X X 0 0 0 Robin Ingraham Board Secretary 2 0 X X 0 0 0 Ron Chew Board Vice-President 3 3 X X 0 0 0 Bob Ingraham Board President 3 0 X X X 0 0 0 Tom Thorleifson Board member 8 8 X X 0 0 0 Angie Rosenkranz Board member 3 0 X 0 0 0 Lisa Schmidt Board member 3 0 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 215 1242 0 0 20904 0 22361 Historical Preservation Grant - reimbursement 712110 1404 1404 0 0 Heritage Fund reimbursement for digitization 712110 19500 19500 0 0 0 0 0 0 20904 13550 0 13550 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 913 0 56815 20904 13550 0 1998 1998 1225 1225 1744 1744 6832 6832 Newspaper digitization 39470 39470 0 0 County Cybertour hosting 1404 1404 0 0 IT and functional expenses 6482 6482 0 0 59155 57157 1998 0 47402 26311 9163 9164 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 200 0 913977 5731 417275 908246 111030 122582 0 0 0 35200 621070 1066503 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 0 621070 1066503 621070 1066503 621070 1066503 -2340 447773 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 10953 30385 66233 76648 32939 217158 1685 1406 278 6780 2348 12497 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12638 31791 66511 83428 35287 229655 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 229655 22225 19054 15898 -5893 13550 64834 0 0 0 0 22225 19054 15898 -5893 13550 64834 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34863 50845 82409 77535 48837 294489 0.77984 0.83468 0.22016 0.16532 X 0 0 X X X 0 261000 0 261000 636600 0 0 636600 0 0 0 0 16377 0 5731 10646 0 0 0 0 908246 Schedule D, Part III, Line 1 The vast majority of our collection and donations are pictures and documents pertaining to the history of our of our city is also on display, along with home, school, and business items that help document the historic environment. area. Those items are digitized and converted to searchable electronic images and documents that can be used for research. Research is typically limited to the immediate area of Granite Falls and Snohomish County. Specific equipment unique to the transportation and industry of our city is also on display, along with home, school, and business items that help document the historic environment. Schedule D, Part III, Line 4 The vast majority of our collection and donations are pictures and documents pertaining to the history of our of our city is also on display, along with home, school, and business items that help document the historic environment. area. Those items are digitized and converted to searchable electronic images and documents that can be used for research. Research is typically limited to the immediate area of Granite Falls and Snohomish County. Specific equipment unique to the transportation and industry Form 990, Part III, Line 4d Minor program expenses not specific to any of the three aforementioned programs, including AASLH Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 The Organization's President and Secretary are married. This is a small city all-volunteer museum and finding sufficient volunteers to fill all time-Consuming roles can be challenging. Their voting is independent. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 Yes, we have paid "memberships, with both "annual and "life" memberships available. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Our membership comes from throughout the region, and we hold public meetings at which the membership annually elects new Board members. The Board subsequently chooses the officers for the coming year. There are nine Board members serving staggered 3-year terms, so there are typically three new Board members elected each year. The student Board member is also chosen, when available, during the annual election. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Our financial records are reviewed/reported monthly at our public monthly organizational meeting. A year-end summary is sent to all Board members in January and discussed at the public meeting. Form 990 is sent to Board members electronically for review before it is submitted. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Our financial records are updated and reported during our monthly public organizational meetings. A formal report is provided to all attendees and recorded by the secretary. Copies of all records are provided upon request. We received no requests during 2023 from other organizations, although we submitted formal reports to a County Historic Preservation Commission for reimbursement of expenses covered by two grants they had approved.