Nonprofit · EIN 30-1342329
HISTORY CENTER
Tax-exempt · DIBOLL, TX 75941
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $560,681 | $609,021 | -$48,340 | $1,690,730 | $13 | $1,690,717 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $537,990 | $576,401 | -$38,411 | $1,743,494 | $4,161 | $1,739,333 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $537,575
- Membership dues
- $19,029
- Program service revenue
- $3,468
- Investment income
- $19,638
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $117,790
- Other salaries and wages
- $191,507
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $409,999
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $6,374
- Occupancy
- $28,567
- Travel
- $872
- Depreciation
- $59,016
- Program services (functional)
- $554,154
- Management and general (functional)
- $54,867
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,743,494
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,690,730
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $13
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,690,717
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $1,017,181
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $1,439,896
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $250,821
- Gross receipts
- $1,180,681
- Employees
- 4
- Volunteers
- 2
- Year formed
- 2023
- State of legal domicile
- TX
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan K Gerland | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $117,790 | $26,499 |
| Ellen Temple | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Katherina Crager | Vice-Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Trey Wilkerson | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Pat Aldred | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Annysue Emmons | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Wayne Haglund | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Owen Temple | Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| David Webber | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Martha Hernandez | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 7 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation | Other / benefits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan K Gerland | Executive Dir. Officer | 40 | $112,252 | $23,686 |
| Ellen Temple | Chair Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Katherina Crager | Vice-Chair Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Trey Wilkerson | Secretary Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Pat Aldred | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Annysue Emmons | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Wayne Haglund | Director Trustee or director | 1 | $0 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 102 N TEMPLE DR, DIBOLL, TX 75941-2035
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Jonathan K Gerland, 102 N Temple Dr, Diboll, TX 75941
- Signed the 990
- Jonathan K Gerland, Executive Director
- Phone
- (936) 829-3543
- Return prepared by
- Goff & Herrington PC
Mission
THE HISTORY CENTER COLLECTS, PRESERVES, AND MAKES AVAILABLE THE HISTORY OF OUR REGION AND ITS PEOPLE FOR THE EDUCATIONAL USE AND BENEFIT OF PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS. GEOGRAPHICALLY, THIS AREA INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO ANGELINA AND THE IMMEDIATE SURROUNDING EAST TEXAS COUNTIES. THIS REGIONAL DESIGNATION INCLUDES AN INTEREST IN THE NATURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE AREA, THE EAST TEXAS LUMBER INDUSTRY, AND THE RECORDS OF REGIONAL FAMILIES, ORGANIZATIONS, BUSINESSES, AND GOVERNMENTS. THE HISTORY CENTER IS FREE TO THE PUBLIC AND INVITES RESEARCHERS AS WELL AS THE GENERALLY CURIOUS TO ENJOY OUR EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS BOTH ONSITE AND ONLINE.
Program accomplishments
- Providing Access to Collections and Public Programming:This is the majority of services, but they are dependent upon our first two services. During 2025 we created and featured two major exhibits containing more than 100 photographs and small artifacts each. One exhibit featured the history of a local 19,000 acre forest conservation area and the other featured Angelina County during World War II. Both exhibits drew from our curated and preserved collections of photographs, maps, papers, archives, records, and artifacts from around the world. Many guided tours were given as well as offsite programs presented. We continued to digitize our photographs and manuscripts and offer them for free through our website, which averages about 20,000 page views per month and nearly four million pages of PDF files downloaded annually. Staff made offsite presentations and gave programs (including oral history workshops) and prepared and installed offsite exhibits, serving organizations such as Sarahs Hope, Big Thicket Association, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Daughters of the American Revolution, Lufkin Study Club, several garden clubs, civic organizations in Groveton, Trinity, Lacy, and Nigton, the Angelina Arts Alliance, Lufkin Creative, and area forestry organizations. Onsite tours were given to Harris County senior citizen groups, retired teacher associations, public schools from Liberty and Lufkin, home school families and organizations, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department staff, and visiting scholars. Staff also regularly gave interviews and provided photographs to area newspapers and magazine and book authors. We also served about 330 in-person researchers and provided research assistance by email and telephone to some 1,600 additional researchers. Research projects included U. S. Forest Service archaeologists, providing them our land, forest, and railroad records; Angelina County officials in selecting more than 100 historical photographs to decorate county buildings; state and federal agencies concerning reestablishing pre-settlement forests in the Caddo Lake area (especially the Superfund site that was once the Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant); Black schools in the area; and assisting several municipal, business, and civic organizations celebrating anniversaries and reunions. We created more than a dozen new finding guides (including arrangement and description), which allow better access to our more than 5,000 cubic feet of records, and we published our annual Pine Bough Magazine, which featured many stories of our region. We also gave tours and published photographs of our award-winning native plant gardens, focusing on the pollinators of our region.Expenses $354,154
- Collections Management and Development: In addition to curating a growing collection of more than 5,000 cubic feet of manuscripts, archives, and papers; more than one million photographs; 100,000 maps; 600 oral history interviews; some 5,000 books; an outdoor steam logging train display; and three acres of landscaped historical native plants, we appraised, assessed, and accessioned 38 new collections of papers and photographs, working closely with the individual and organizational donors. Highlights include a collection of some 6,000 vintage photographs of East Texas logging railroads from the late 19th century through the middle 20th century, another photograph collection of some 7,000 images pertaining to the Southeast Texas rice and East Texas lignite coal mining industries,land management records for cutover pine lands in Trinity County during the 1920s and 1930s as a federal government social experiment, photographic collections of area families, records of community celebrations, and World War II artifacts, including two captured Japanese flags from New Guinea. We also collected oral histories from persons pertaining to the City of Lufkin government, East Texas banking and the beginnings of credit card services, Huntington segregated Black schools, experiences of Black women in Angelina County, Angelina County during World War II, labor and family migration from the Rio Grande Valley to Angelina County during the late 1960s,rice farming, lignite coal mining, and a Black female vocal group known as the Golden Echoes.Expenses $100,000
- Preservation of Collections: We preserved the collections for continued public use now and into the future. We also gave onsite tours and offsite programs concerning proper preservation, care and handling of historical documents, family papers, and photographs, assisting area service clubs, schools, churches, historical and genealogical organizations. Our native landscaping and gardens were also preserved and further developed for the benefit of everyone.Expenses $100,000
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990-EZ on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 30-1342329
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Supporting organization, Type I
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Supporting organization, 50% limit
- Exempt since
- 2023
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Arts, culture and humanities (A54)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,690,730
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,180,681
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $560,681 | $609,021 | $1,690,730 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $537,990 | $576,401 | $1,743,494 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2023 | $0 | $0 | $1 | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 30-1342329).
Questions about HISTORY CENTER
- What is the EIN of HISTORY CENTER?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of HISTORY CENTER is 30-1342329.
- Is HISTORY CENTER tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2023.
- Are donations to HISTORY CENTER tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Supporting organization, 50% limit).
- Which annual return does HISTORY CENTER file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of HISTORY CENTER due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did HISTORY CENTER last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of HISTORY CENTER?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Jonathan K Gerland.
- Who are the officers and directors of HISTORY CENTER?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 10 people; 1 received compensation from the organization, the highest $117,790 (Jonathan K Gerland, Executive Dir.).
- How much revenue does HISTORY CENTER have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $560,681, expenses of $609,021 and total assets of $1,690,730 at year end.
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