IT History Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 953177229
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2014–2024
Official website data refreshed: Sep 2026
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2023
Location: Brooklyn, NY, US
Phone: 4154352263
Rating: 79
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $12,212
Expenses: $9,253
Assets: $8,326
Liabilities: $1,091

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

JEFFERY STEIN (Chairman)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of the IT History Society is to encourage and help preserve information about the history of Information Technology.

What it reported doing in 2024

Enhance and expand developmental works concerning the history of information technology to the understanding and improvement of our present and future world

Operating model

Revenue model: Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
Distribution model: Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 85
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 57
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 75.8%; rating input score 76
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 24.2%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Details

What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
Where the money goes: 75.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2014 to 2024
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.