Skip to main content
Filing year 2024

OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Portland, Oregon·EIN 93-0391599·NTEE A80 · Arts, Culture & Humanities·3
Total revenue
$12.4M
Total assets
$47.2M
Total expenses
$12.2M
Reported officers
44
Mission

AS THE STEWARD OF OREGON'S HISTORY, THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY EDUCATES, INFORMS, AND ENGAGES THE PUBLIC THROUGH COLLECTING, PRESERVING, AND INTERPRETING THE PAST....IN OTHER WORDS, OREGON HISTORY MATTERS.

Executive compensation, broken down

Form 990 · Schedule J · 7 reported individuals · Filing year 2024

Executive Director
$341k
$363k
Base
$292k
Bonus
$35k
Other
$100
Benefits
$2k
Museum Director
highest compensated employee
$224k
$238k
Base
$201k
Bonus
Other
$100
Benefits
$13k
Chief Financial Officer
$175k
$186k
Base
$149k
Bonus
$5k
Other
$100
Benefits
$13k
Chief Information Officer
chief information officer
$156k
$166k
Base
$136k
Bonus
Other
$100
Benefits
$13k
Cpo/editor
highest compensated employee
$142k
$151k
Facilities Director
highest compensated employee
$140k
$149k
Chief Marketing & Com. Officer
highest compensated employee
$131k
$140k

Teal figures restate each filed amount in 2026 dollars.

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the West region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Plus 37 unpaid individuals.

Browse compensation in Arts, Culture & Humanities

Up 7%
from 2023

From $319k in 2023 to $341k in 2024.

$319k
2023
$341k
2024
In today's dollarsEst.
Up 4% in real terms$349k to $363k

Estimated with BLS CPI-U for the West region, restating filed pay into May 2026 dollars. A restatement of past pay, not current or projected pay.

Highest reported compensation in each year. Volunteer board members and partial-year payouts are filtered out.
Financial trend

Revenue and expenses over time

OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY reported revenue and expenses across 2 filing years.

RevenueExpenses
$10.9M
$10.7M
2023
$12.4M
$12.2M
2024
Total revenue and total expenses from IRS Form 990 filings.
Sector benchmark

What Arts, Culture & Humanities executives earn in Oregon

Comparable arts, culture & humanities organizations in Oregon pay their highest-earning executive a median of $54,600.

25th percentile
$18k
Median
$54,600
75th percentile
$87k
90th percentile
$146k

These are arts, culture & humanities sector-wide figures, not this organization's reported pay. Based on 111 organizations across 111 filings (2022 – 2023).

See full Arts, Culture & Humanities pay data for Oregon
Free, forever
Build lists. Save your benchmarks.
A free Lucido account lets you build lists of nonprofits and save your search filters. No credit card.
Create free account
Already a member? Sign in
Build a benchmark

Compare any role, sector, or revenue band

Build your own benchmark from millions of reported positions.