2026-01-19T11:21:18-06:00 2025-06-30 382706146 YEO & YEO PC 1450 Eisenhower Place Ann Arbor MI 481083283 990 2024-07-01 381381144 Detroit Historical Society DETR 3138331805 5401 Woodward Avenue Detroit MI 482024009 Elana Rugh President & CEO 3138331805 2026-01-13 1 1 Timothy P Crosson Jr P01442508 7347691331 2026-01-13 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Elana Rugh 5401 Woodward Ave Detroit MI 482024009 8139821 0 X detroithistorical.org X 1921 MI The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter. 46 45 92 51 1404 0 6558369 4199877 631907 923010 77713 242680 -56554 226123 7211435 5591690 0 0 0 0 3900514 4378965 0 0 1096838 2870528 2745354 6771042 7124319 440393 -1532629 9505595 9298497 493746 1699397 9011849 7599100 The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections. 0 0 1418612 367000 Management and oversight of the Detroit Historical Museum and Dossin Great Lakes Museum - the Detroit Historical Museums provide opportunities for individuals of all ages to experience a variety of historical stories and artifacts. The Detroit Historical Museum is open five days a week, 52 weeks per year. The Dossin Great Lakes Museum is open three days per week for 28 weeks per year and five days per week for 24 weeks per year. Both museums are open for private tours on days they are not open to the public. Together, the museums serve more than 180,000 people annually. 1840035 476023 Public programs - the Detroit Historical Museums' goal is to offer opportunities for constituents to go in-dept on certain historical topics, either through lectures, workshops, films, or tours. The organization hosts approximately 30 community tours annually and approximately 25 in-museum programs. Generally, these programs are targeted at adults and seniors; however, there are special events and programs throughout the year aimed at students and families. The average community tour attendance is 30 people, and the average in-museum program attracts 40 individuals. 1396441 361264 Maintaining more than 300,000 artifacts in the City of Detroit's collection, the Detroit Historical Society ensures the conservation and preservation of artifacts related to the history of the people, places, and events critical to the City of Detroit's history. A team of staff, interns, and volunteers is working to digitize aspects of the collection and place the information online. Even with the abatement of COVID-19, the appetite for digital content continues, and the organization is now focused on digitization as a way to increase accessibility to these artifacts for those that cannot come to the museums. The organization continues to receive several thousand items annually. 4655088 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 51 0 1 92 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 46 45 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 MI X X X Elana Rugh 3138331805 5401 Woodward Avenue Detroit MI 482024009 John P Decker Chairperson 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Thomas C Buhl Past Chairperson 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Linda Schlesinger-Wagner 1st Vice Chairperson 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Mark J Albrecht 2nd Vice Chairperson 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Elana Rugh President & CEO 40.00 X X 275269 0 19076 Greg Nowak Treasurer 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Dante Stella Secretary 1.00 X X 0 0 0 Lawrence N Bluth Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lindsay Joseph Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jeffrey Lambrecht Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Francis W McMillan II Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Kenneth J Svoboda Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Camille Walker Banks Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Markeith Weldon Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Akosua Barthwell Evans Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Marc Bland Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Paul Boehms Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Gary Brown Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jim Deutchman Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Douglas Dossin Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lena Epstein Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Fisher Jr Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Robert Gillette Jr Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 F Neal Gram III Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Sean Gray Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Frederick Hall Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Rainy Hamilton Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Daniel Kaufman Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Bernie Kent Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jin-Kyu Koh Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Michael Kosonog Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Margery Krevsky-Dosey Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Chauncey Mayfield II Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Chris Onwuzurike Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Joseph Parke Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jeanette Pierce Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Leslye Rosenbaum Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Rick Ruffner Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jonathan B Rumley Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Lois Shaevsky Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Dana Sorensen Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Coriel Taylor Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ron Taylor Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Paul Van Tol Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Jean Vernor Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Mary Waters Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Matthew Greenough Chief Financial Officer 40.00 X 113565 0 23409 Tracy Irwin Chief Exhibition Officer 40.00 X 128903 0 17752 Rebecca Witt Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer 40.00 X 172500 0 2095 Douglas Czajkowski VP of Development 40.00 X 198216 0 13207 Alicia Jeffreys Ended Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Judith Knudsen Christie Ended Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 Ned Staebler Ended Trustee 1.00 X 0 0 0 888453 0 75539 5 0 1 0 0 215841 2138194 1845842 121254 4199877 Tickets & Admissions 611710 923010 923010 923010 166269 166269 1977658 1901247 76411 76411 76411 125654 215841 182212 -56558 -56558 747353 464672 282681 281277 1404 5591690 1204287 1404 186122 950519 317682 428530 204307 2820311 2006180 285389 528742 20610 15327 1475 3808 311735 219141 30154 62440 275790 171868 50011 53911 55858 55858 45250 45250 25005 25005 477290 256363 97829 123098 701262 562761 85239 53262 668560 608167 29054 31339 32355 14866 7151 10338 63239 12032 48322 2885 457612 411851 45761 83683 83683 Miscellaneous 83526 7971 52984 22571 Tours 51714 50879 698 137 7124319 4655088 1372393 1096838 529358 577665 942868 77000 1529814 369243 255315 339667 128220 131479 8317904 5903157 2872359 2414747 3219892 5371465 27769 17231 9505595 9298497 431361 442392 34616 1239774 27769 17231 493746 1699397 X 7928015 6840495 1083834 758605 9011849 7599100 9505595 9298497 -1532629 119880 0 X 0 1 X 1 0 X 2150349 3879921 7988697 6558369 4199878 24777214 309973 600572 680762 1084155 1204287 3879749 300638 300638 300638 300638 300638 1503190 2760960 4781131 8970097 7943162 5704803 30160153 69436 101191 102864 100000 200000 573491 0 69436 101191 102864 100000 200000 573491 29586662 64688 181654 210001 49609 166269 672221 64688 181654 210001 49609 166269 672221 2825648 4962785 9180098 7992771 5871072 30832374 0.95960 0.95410 0.02180 0.02670 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED X X 0 8131351 5717892 2413459 186553 185265 1288 2414747 ROU Liability 17231 17231 6229326 119879 362847 154910 637636 5591690 0 5591690 8109044 362847 621878 984725 7124319 0 7124319 Part III, Line 4: The Detroit Historical Society maintains the historical artifact collections owned by the City of Detroit. Those artifacts are catalogued and digitized for board dissemination to the public. Part XI, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Investment Fees -25,005. Special Events Expense 179,915. Part XII, Line 2d - Other Adjustments: Special Events 179,915. Investment Fees -25,005. Cost of Goods Sold 466,968. Golf Outing 90802 49862 40940 12358 23700 5177 Society Ball 250693 165979 84714 39526 5000 96451 341495 215841 125654 51884 28700 101628 182212 -56558 X X X X X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Elana Rugh President & CEO 239269 0 30000 0 6000 0 2707 0 16369 0 294345 0 0 0 Rebecca Witt Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer 160000 0 12500 0 0 0 1675 0 420 0 174595 0 0 0 Douglas Czajkowski VP of Development 179616 0 15000 0 3600 0 1911 0 11296 0 211423 0 0 0 Part I, Line 7 Annual bonus is performance-based. X Tiger Stadium Seats 1 72500 Fair Market Value X Auction Items 69 29651 Fair Market Value X Dessert Table & Specialty Bar 2 9113 Fair Market Value X Red Wings Tickets 22 6790 Fair Market Value X Talent Services for Actors/Models 1 3200 Fair Market Value 0 1 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 6 The Detroit Historical Society is a membership organization. All members have the right to elect the members of the Board of Trustees, as well as certain officers of the organization. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, line 7a All members have the right to elect the members of the Board of Trustees, as well as to elect the organization's secretary, treasurer, and historian. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 11b The Chief Executive Officer and the Director of Finance, as well as the Finance and Audit Committee Chair, review a draft copy of Form 990 before it is filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 12c The governance committee of the Detroit Historical Society board of trustees monitors and enforces an annual review and compliance with the organization's conflict of interest policy. Current trustees re-sign their agreement to the policy annually. New trustees sign the conflict of interest policy upon election to the board and annually thereafter. A file of all signed conflict of interest policies is retained by the Assistant to the President and Chief Executive Officer. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, line 15 The Detroit Historical Society has adopted and utilizes an executive compensation policy for the determination of compensation of the Detroit Historical Society's President and Chief Executive Officer ("President/CEO"), as well as other top management officials earning $150,000 or more. Consistent with Detroit Historical Society's by-laws, the Human Resources Committee ("the Committee") serves as the compensation committee and maintains general oversight of the organization's human resource plan, including yearly evaluations of its top executives and the determination of their compensation. The committee will meet, independently of the President/CEO and top management officials, to discuss performance relative to the position description. During these deliberations, the Committee may consider input obtained from other board members, staff, professional advisors, grant recipients, and other informed community leaders. Once a consensus is reached regarding performance, a similar discussion will be held concerning compensation relative to annual benchmarks and established objectives. Only those members of the Committee who are independent may be involved in the process for determining compensation. An independent person is defined as a committee member who does not have a direct or indirect financial interest in the organization. A voting member of the Committee who receives compensation from the organization for services is precluded from voting on matters relating to compensation. However, that person may provide information to the Committee regarding compensation. The Committee's process for determining compensation will include the review of appropriate comparability data and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. Competent salary surveys will be used to benchmark compensation for the position, including the Crain's Detroit Business Non-Profit Salary Survey, the Michigan Non-Profit Association Comparative Salary Survey, and others. The Discussion, deliberation, and substantiation of compensation will be documented in the minutes, with the comparability data attached. The committee will first present its findings and recommendations in an executive session without the President/CEO or top management official present. The Committee and/or the Board Chair (a member of the Committee) will then meet with the President/CEO or top management official to discuss and document the strengths, weaknesses, and goals for the upcoming year and its determination of compensation. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, line 19 The Organization's documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request in the Organization's public inspection file.