Form 990-EZ for tax year 2024
Filed by MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION CORP.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $49,763
- Total expenses
- $34,146
- Contributions and grants received
- $43,495
- Grants paid
- $10,074
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Membership dues (line 3)
- $4,350
- Investment income (line 4)
- $1,918
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- $0
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- $0
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- $0
- Other revenue (line 8)
- $0
- Total assets, end of year
- $95,663
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $95,663
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $34,145
Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2024
Primary exempt purpose
To advance the development of a hybrid American Chestnut tree that is resistant to the chestnut fungal blight.
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Establishment and maintenance of chestnut breeding, native diversity, and seed orchards in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Also provided a grant ($10,074) to University of Rhode Island Coastal Intern Program to start a seed chestnut orchard and mentor three undergraduate students to do the work.
Expenses $31,806
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Education about the American chestnut and the program to restore them. Also held a day long symposium at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts that discussed the challenges of resorting the American Chestnut and celebrate the 40th anniversary of The American Chestnut Foundation.
Expenses $2,339
As filed on the 2024 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Katherine Desjardin
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Brian Clark
VP of Orchard Development
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Michael Novack
VP of Scientific Planning
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Yvonne Federowicz
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Paul Wetzel
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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William Davis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Gray Curtis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Emery
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Michael Grames
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Karen Jones
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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John Meiklejohn
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Bradford Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Joshua Soojian
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Edmund Croteau
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Nathaniel Lord
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Richard Hoffman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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John Occhialini
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Laura Meyerson
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
Compensation is as filed in Part IV of the Form 990-EZ: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990_ez
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 22 February 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.0
- Source object
- 202500559349200520
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