Missouri · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,538 to it, the largest being HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY INC ($56,183). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $462k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Society for the History of Technology does
Mission
The Society for the History of Technology is dedicated to the historical study of technology and its relations with politics, economics, labor, business, the environment, public policy, science, and the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Published four issues of our academic journal (regular since the 1950s), containing the latest peer-reviewed excellent scholarship in our field, plus book reviews, essays, and visual material.
$303,121 spent$127,779 earned by the program59% of program spendingHeld second in-person annual meeting since the COVID pandemic, organizing and running almost four days of meetings in Los Angeles, where members presented research papers and discussed teaching, where publishers displayed recent publications in our field and met potential authors, where students and new scholars met with senior scholars and got feedback on their work.
$161,520 spent$114,429 earned by the program32% of program spendingSelected winners of SHOT's fourteen regular awards and fellowships for excellence in research; awarded several dozen travel grants to US and international scholars to support their presenting research at our conference; hosted other programs to encourage and recognize good work in our discipline
$45,633 spentof which $35,049 as grants9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $510,274.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $4.6M to $3.8M (−18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $23k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $8k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The D Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY raised.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY’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.
How concentrated its funding is
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY: 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 SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY?
- SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY (Missouri) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,538 to it, the largest being HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY INC ($56,183). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $99,538 in grants to SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY?
- HISTORY OF SCIENCE SOCIETY INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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