Form 990 for tax year 2024
Filed by NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF ILL.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $273,744
- Total expenses
- $131,623
- Contributions and grants received
- $55,022
- Grants paid
- $16,300
- Program service revenue
- $35,619
- Investment income
- $179,026
- Other revenue
- $4,077
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,815,966
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $0
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $1,815,966
- Program services expenses (Part IX)
- $90,866
- Management and general expenses
- $40,757
- Fundraising expenses
- $0
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $90,866
Program services were 69.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
Line items
Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.
Revenue
Part VIII, the statement of revenue.
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1b · Membership dues
$38,155
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1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants
$16,867
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1g · Noncash contributions included above
$53
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2a · Program service revenue: Chipstone tour
total $2,730 · related or exempt $2,730
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2b · Program service revenue: Food service revenue
total $32,889 · related or exempt $32,889
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3 · Investment income
total $56,697 · excluded $56,697
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4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds
total $0
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5 · Royalties
total $0
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6d · Net rental income or loss
total $0
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7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory
securities $1,252,996 · other assets $16,484
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7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses
securities $1,147,151
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7c · Gain or loss
securities $105,845 · other assets $16,484
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7d · Net gain or loss
total $122,329 · related or exempt $122,329
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8c · Net income from fundraising events
total $0
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9c · Net income from gaming
total $0
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10c · Net income from sales of inventory
total $0
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11a · Other revenue: Board lunches
total $3,402 · excluded $3,402
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11b · Other revenue: Sale of NSCDA-IL scarves/pins
total $675 · excluded $675
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11e · Other revenue, total
$4,077
Functional expenses
Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.
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1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments
total $10,300 · program services $10,300
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2 · Grants to domestic individuals
total $6,000 · program services $6,000
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3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals
total $0
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4 · Benefits paid to or for members
total $0
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5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
total $0
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6 · Compensation of disqualified persons
total $0
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7 · Other salaries and wages
total $0
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8 · Pension plan contributions
total $0
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9 · Other employee benefits
total $0
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10 · Payroll taxes
total $0
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11a · Fees: management
total $5,602 · program services $5,602
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11b · Fees: legal
total $0
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11c · Fees: accounting
total $8,275 · management and general $8,275
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11d · Fees: lobbying
total $0
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11e · Fees: professional fundraising services
total $0
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11f · Fees: investment management
total $6,390 · management and general $6,390
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11g · Fees: other
total $0
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12 · Advertising and promotion
total $0
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13 · Office expenses
total $0
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14 · Information technology
total $0
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15 · Royalties
total $0
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16 · Occupancy
total $5,166 · program services $5,166
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17 · Travel
total $0
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18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials
total $0
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19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings
total $5,400 · program services $5,400
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20 · Interest
total $0
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21 · Payments to affiliates
total $15,060 · program services $15,060
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22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization
total $0
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23 · Insurance
total $4,826 · program services $1,701 · management and general $3,125
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24a · Other expenses: Food service
total $30,890 · program services $30,890
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24b · Other expenses: Conservation/restoration
total $6,688 · management and general $6,688
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24c · Other expenses: Fortnightly Dues
total $5,510 · management and general $5,510
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24d · Other expenses: Progams
total $4,522 · program services $4,522
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24e · All other expenses
total $16,994 · program services $6,225 · management and general $10,769
Balance sheet
Part X, book values.
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1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing
beginning of year $11,730 · end of year $19,682
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2 · Savings and temporary cash investments
beginning of year $143,057 · end of year $144,577
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3 · Pledges and grants receivable
end of year $0
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4 · Accounts receivable
end of year $0
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5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people
end of year $0
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6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons
end of year $0
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7 · Other notes and loans receivable
end of year $0
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8 · Inventories for sale or use
end of year $0
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9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges
end of year $0
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10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net
end of year $0
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11 · Investments: publicly traded securities
beginning of year $1,519,058 · end of year $1,651,707
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12 · Investments: other securities
end of year $0
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13 · Investments: program-related
end of year $0
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14 · Intangible assets
end of year $0
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15 · Other assets
end of year $0
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31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds
beginning of year $1,673,845 · end of year $1,815,966
Mission and programs · 2024
Mission
The mission of NSCDA-IL is historic preservation, patriotic service and educational projects.
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We hold meetings during the year so members can exchange ideas and hear speakers on topics related to our mission of education, patriotic service, and historic preservation.
Expenses $36,474
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Per capita dues are paid to our National Organization, National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. They in turn, use these funds for their charitable purposes.
Expenses $15,060
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We own and insure the collection in the Clarke-Ford House Museum, the oldest house in Chicago. The City of Chicago owns the house.
Expenses $12,469
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We make donations to organizations interested in historic preservation. These include Dumbarton House, Sulgrave Manor,and Gunston Hall.
Expenses $6,800
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We give history scholarships to worthy recipients for the work they do in historical research.
Expenses $6,000
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Members attend educational conferences to exchange information with peers from other NSCDA societies to increase community impact in museum alliances, historic preservation and patriotic service.
Expenses $5,400
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Patriotic Service programs include participation with the USO Great Lakes No Dough Dinners for servicemen and servicewomen. We help underwrite and serve meals during the year. Hundreds of service members benefit from these dinners.
Expenses $3,500
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We are one of the sponsors for the Chicago Veterans Memorial Day Ruck March, the purpose of which is to raise awareness of the issue of veteran suicide. The march normally takes place on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.
Expenses $3,000
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We purchased special NSCDA scarf rings.
Expenses $1,393
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We sponsor an essay contest for high school students. The winners receive a scholarship to the Congressional Seminar in Washington DC. This Seminar is held under the auspices of the Washington Workshops Foundation, a private nonprofit educational program in American government for high school students. This essay contest is a major project of the NSCDA.
Expenses $670
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We contributed to an American Indian Medical Scholarship.
Expenses $100
As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.
Listed in Part VII
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Chris Gretchko
Historical Act.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Mary Carter
VP Membership
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Carla Carstens Herr
2nd Vice Pres.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Marion Baumgarten
Recording Sec
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 8
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Melinda Swift
Programs
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Diane Eubanks
Corr. Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Courtenay R Wood
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Caroline Heintzelman
VP Fin/past tre
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Emily Ackerman
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Margaret Barnhart
Cary Ross Comm.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Anne Rossley
Communications
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Susan Hanes-Leonard
Historian
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Julia Jackson
Registrar
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Sonya Wolsey-Paige
Patriotic Serv.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Betsy Thompson
Hospitality
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Ann Potter
Cary Ross Comm.
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Noren Ungaretti
Museum Alliance
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Karen Seda
Communications
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, 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. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.
Grants on this return
No itemized grants to organizations on this return.
Provenance
- Return type
- form_990
- Tax year
- 2024
- Filed
- 21 August 2025
- IRS schema version
- 2024v5.2
- Source object
- 202532339349300638
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