The Historymakers
The Historymakers
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About this organization
Mission
The Historymakers is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of African American video oral histories.
About
Digital video oral history archives and interviews: video taped oral history interviews. Each Historymakers interview is approximately two hours in length. The program includes the cost of background research, videotaping, editing, transcribing, encoding, digitizing, and archiving each interview. Website: development and maintenance of the Historymakers web site that allows users to sample the archive holdings on the internet. Live events: represents the series known as 'An Evening With', these events are held each year. The events are designed to expose the Historymakers to diverse audiences, tell a story of a prominent Historymaker, and raise funds.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is stated in the filing as “The historymakers inc. (the company) was established as a not-for-profit corporation organized under illinois law to video record through first person narratives the stories of african american historymakers for the sole purpose of developing a publicly accessible video and oral history archive. the historymakers's support comes from individuals, corporate and individual foundations in addition, the historymakers holds various events throughout the year to increase awareness of the goals of the historymakers as well as honor and recognize prominent african americans. as of december 31, 2018 the historymakers archive contains over 2,500 videotaped oral history interviews.”.
Their activities were defined as: “The historymakers is a national, 501(c)(3) non-profit educational institution committed to preserving, developing and providing easy access to an internationally recognized archival collection of thousands of african american video oral histories.”.
- As per legal requirements, the non-profit's state of operation is reported as IL.
- The non-profit's address in 2020 as per the filing is 1900 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL, 60616.
- The form of the non-profit organization shows 28 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $2,772,276.
- The organization has 6 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1999.
- The organization pays $716,334 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $268,329 in fundraising expenses.