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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE STATE OF ILL.

Totals

Total revenue
$270,946
Total expenses
$179,922
Contributions and grants received
$61,281
Grants paid
$42,600
Program service revenue
$52,397
Investment income
$153,701
Other revenue
$3,567
Total assets, end of year
$1,906,990
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$1,906,990
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$144,772
Management and general expenses
$35,150
Fundraising expenses
$0
Program service expenses (Part III)
$144,772

Program services were 80.5% 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.

  • 1b · Membership dues

    $40,195

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $21,086

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $148

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Food service revenue

    total $51,272 · related or exempt $51,272

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Pullman tour

    total $1,125 · related or exempt $1,125

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $60,007 · excluded $60,007

  • 4 · Income from investment of tax-exempt bond proceeds

    total $0

  • 5 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 6d · Net rental income or loss

    total $0

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $618,751 · other assets $47,699

  • 7b · Less cost or other basis and sales expenses

    securities $572,756

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $45,995 · other assets $47,699

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $93,694 · related or exempt $93,694

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $0

  • 9c · Net income from gaming

    total $0

  • 10c · Net income from sales of inventory

    total $0

  • 11a · Other revenue: Board lunches

    total $2,095 · related or exempt $2,095

  • 11b · Other revenue: Sale of NSCDA-IL scarves/pins

    total $1,472 · excluded $1,472

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $3,567

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $42,600 · program services $42,600

  • 2 · Grants to domestic individuals

    total $0

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $0

  • 4 · Benefits paid to or for members

    total $0

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $0

  • 6 · Compensation of disqualified persons

    total $0

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $0

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $0

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $0

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $0

  • 11a · Fees: management

    total $2,500 · program services $2,500

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $0

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,712 · management and general $5,712

  • 11d · Fees: lobbying

    total $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $0

  • 11f · Fees: investment management

    total $9,138 · management and general $9,138

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $0

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $0

  • 15 · Royalties

    total $0

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total -$9,860 · program services -$9,860

  • 17 · Travel

    total $0

  • 18 · Travel or entertainment for public officials

    total $0

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $8,987 · program services $8,987

  • 20 · Interest

    total $0

  • 21 · Payments to affiliates

    total $15,000 · program services $15,000

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $0

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $4,869 · program services $1,701 · management and general $3,168

  • 24a · Other expenses: Food service

    total $46,006 · program services $46,006

  • 24b · Other expenses: Consultants

    total $14,378 · program services $14,378

  • 24c · Other expenses: Progams

    total $7,797 · program services $7,797

  • 24d · Other expenses: Essay Contest

    total $6,491 · program services $6,491

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $26,304 · program services $9,172 · management and general $17,132

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $19,682 · end of year $33,352

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $144,577 · end of year $125,187

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $1,651,707 · end of year $1,748,451

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $1,815,966 · end of year $1,906,990

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

The mission of NSCDA-IL is historic preservation, patriotic service and educational projects.

  • 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 $53,803

  • We contribute to America's Vet Dog Program. This program provides service dogs for veterans and first responders.

    Expenses $24,000

  • We make donations to organizations interested in historic preservation. These include Dumbarton House, Sulgrave Manor,and Gunston Hall.

    Expenses $18,600

  • 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 $15,000

  • 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 $14,641

  • 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 $8,987

  • 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 $6,491

  • 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

  • We contributed to an American Indian Medical Scholarship.

    Expenses $250

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Chris Gretchko

    Historical Act.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mary Carter

    VP Membership

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Molly Bolash

    Patriotic Serv.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marion Baumgarten

    Recording Sec

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Melinda Swift

    Programs

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Diane Eubanks

    Corr. Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Courtenay R Wood

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Caroline Heintzelman

    2nd VP Finance

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Emily Ackerman

    Past Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Margaret Barnhart

    Cary Ross Comm.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Anne Rossley

    Communications

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Susan Hanes-Leonard

    Historian

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Julia Jackson

    Registrar

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Elizabeth Thompson

    Treasurer/Hosp

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Noren Ungaretti

    Museum Alliance

    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.

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Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
11 September 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202632549349300028

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