Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Capitol Historic Trust Inc
Capitol Historic Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being Trust for Architectural Easements ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $75k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Capitol Historic Trust Inc does
Mission
Contribute to preservation of the nations architectural heritage through supporting protection and preservation of historically important properties.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Monitoring of Easement-protected Properties: Annual onsite inspection of each property protected with the organizations preservation easement to monitor compliance by the property owner with the easement terms. Photographs and field reports documenting the property condition entered into organization data base and compared with baseline and prior year documentation. Notation of any alterations made and any actions recommended or required to be taken by owner. Hundreds of historic properties benefited.
$49,564 spent41% of program spendingEnforcement of Easement Compliance: Regular contact with easement protected properties owners to reinforce owner obligations and organization rights under the easement. Update owner information annually using public real property records. Send written correspondence annually to each property owner with results of the organizations annual inspection. Verbal and written communication to clarify easement terms and potential enforcement actions. Respond to owner requests for permission to alter the property detailing the terms of any approval. Provide new owners with the recorded easement and information about owner obligations annual monitoring and change request policies. Actions to enforce compliance through exercise of remedies provided for in easement when necessary. Hundreds of historic properties benefited.
$43,315 spent36% of program spendingEducation about and Support of Preservation Efforts: Education of owners of historic properties about benefits of historic preservation through telephone consultation emails and website www.capitoltrust.org. Support of community preservation efforts through conferences educational materials and grants to preservation organizations. Dozens of historic property owners benefited.
$27,116 spent23% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $119,995.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $2.1M (−9%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
0% of Capitol Historic Trust Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Capitol Historic Trust Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Capitol Historic Trust Inc's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Capitol Historic Trust Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Capitol Historic Trust Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Capitol Historic Trust Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Capitol Historic Trust Inc?
- Capitol Historic Trust Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $75,000 to it, the largest being Trust for Architectural Easements ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Capitol Historic Trust Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $75,000 in grants to Capitol Historic Trust Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Capitol Historic Trust Inc?
- Trust for Architectural Easements is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Capitol Historic Trust Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing