Form 990-EZ for tax year 2025
Filed by HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE NATIVE SONS OF GOLDEN WEST.
Totals
- Total revenue
- $81,266
- Total expenses
- $37,447
- Contributions and grants received
- $71,475
- Grants paid
- $31,951
- Program service revenue
- $5
- Membership dues (line 3)
- not reported
- Investment income (line 4)
- $9,900
- Gain or loss on sale of assets (line 5c)
- not reported
- Gaming and fundraising events, net (line 6d)
- -$114
- Gross profit on inventory sales (line 7c)
- not reported
- Other revenue (line 8)
- not reported
- Total assets, end of year
- $402,567
- Total liabilities, end of year
- not reported
- Net assets or fund balances, end of year
- $402,567
- Program service expenses (Part III)
- $33,279
Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.
Mission and programs · 2025
Primary exempt purpose
The organization devotes its time to making California history accessible, informative, meaningful, and entertaining to the public through the preservation, sponsorship, and promotion of historical sites and events.
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Promoted and enabled knowledge and education of California history by granting funds for California museums and historical sites, including grants for the Argonaut NorSac Railway and to the Gabrielino Band-Kizh Nation for the El Aliso plaque.
Expenses $5,500 · Grants $5,500
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Provided funding for the preservation, restoration, and maintenance of California historical and cultural sites and buildings, including the Native Sons of The Golden West Parlor's roof in Humboldt, the historic Chinese Cemetery in Auburn, an Eagle Scout's project for the St John Church in Sonora, a window restoration at the Ramona Museum of California, restoring the floor of the Monterey Customs House, the Vacaville Historical digital archive, and maintenance on an historic church in a historic Gold Rush era Sierra Foothills town.
Expenses $27,779 · Grants $26,451
As filed on the 2025 return.
Listed in Part IV
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Jedidiah Watson
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 3
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Larry Schork
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Gary Padgett
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Richard Cortez
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Doug Love
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Robert Bruno
Vice Chair
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 3
-
Carl Von Bargen
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 6
-
Marsha Skelton
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Richard Pharo
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Brice Walker
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Michael O'Brien
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Bob Balich
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Compensation
- $0
- Benefit plans
- not reported
- Expense account
- not reported
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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
- 2025
- Filed
- 12 September 2026
- IRS schema version
- 2025v4.1
- Source object
- 202642559349200309
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