Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,077,444 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 155
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $120M
What White House Historical Association does
Mission
The White House Historical Association is a nonprofit educational association founded in 1961 for the purpose of enhancing the understanding, appreciation and enjoyment of the executive mansion. The proceeds from the sale of the association's books and products are used to fund the acquisition of historic furnishings for the permanent white house collection, assist in the preservation of public rooms and further its educational mission.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The association opened the people's house: a white house experience at 1700 pennsylvania avenue.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The association opened the people's house: a white house experience at 1700 pennsylvania avenue. This cutting-edge educational museum experience tells the story of the executive mansion, its inhabitants, and the people who have dedicated their careers to its functions. It is free and open to the public seven days a week, and in its first year of operation welcomed more than 275,000 visitors.
$7,674,482 spent37% of program spendingSales of books, the official white house ornament and other items help to educate the public about the white house and preserve the history of the white house.
$6,715,161 spent$11,915,453 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducation, conferences, seminars, and other programs: the White House Historical Association has several programs to educate the general-public. In partnership with the smithsonian national museum of american history, the association hosted a symposium on food history and the white house in may 2025. The rubenstein center continues to host white house history live, a monthly virtual program. This program had more than 1.8 million views in 2025. In july 2025, the association hosted its annual white house history teacher institute to help provide teachers with information and lesson plans regarding white house history. Nearly 1,000 teachers have been through our professional development programs, and through them we have reached more than 520,000 students.
$3,487,176 spent17% of program spendingWebsite and digital assets: the whha digital library holds more than 30,000 images of the white house spanning its entire history, including exterior views, images of rooms and furnishings, and photos of events including inaugurations and holiday celebrations. In support of the association's educational mission, each image has accompanying historical information, provided free to the public. In october 2025, it was relaunched as the white house history digital archives.
$646,614 spent3% of program spendingPublishing: the White House Historical Association's scholarly press produces award-winning titles on a wide range of subjects related to the history of the president's house, from its architecture, gardens, fine and decorative arts to the presidents and first ladies who have lived there over the years. Significant new books for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2025 were: asian heritage chefs in white house history: cooking to the president's taste, white house memories 19702007: recollections of the longest serving chief usher, the people's house miscellany: a treasury of white house history, fun facts, and things to know, coloring the white house, official white house china: from the 18th to 21st centuries, the official white house christmas ornament: collected stories of a holiday tradition (6th edition), how to draw the presidents and first ladies, and first ladies make history (2nd edition). White house history quarterly issues included "animals at work in white house history," "the white house and world war ii," "memorials, cemeteries, and white house history, and "the white house that wasn't." the association's books received 30 national and international awards in the…
$2,325,172 spent11% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,848,605.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $102M to $148M (+46%).
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.
68% of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
John Fw Rogers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 54 funders, grant income rose $289k → $2.7M.
26 of 155 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 155 funders by total. 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
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
45% 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 WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 82% · 2019 41% · 2020 28% · 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
30% of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Against its field
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $475k on record — $475k federal, $761 state.
- Department of State$255k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$219k
- VT$621
- NJ$140
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- White House Endowment & Acquisition Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 155 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,077,444 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($10,000,000). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 155 organizations giving $31,077,444 in grants to WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 155 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing