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← FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK INC

Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by FRIENDS OF GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$7,753,428
Total expenses
$5,276,198
Contributions and grants received
$6,249,740
Grants paid
$3,418,468
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$927,085
Other revenue
$576,603
Total assets, end of year
$35,916,963
Total liabilities, end of year
$727,768
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$35,189,195
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$3,838,592
Management and general expenses
$687,689
Fundraising expenses
$749,917
Program service expenses (Part III)
$3,838,592

Program services were 72.8% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $29,960

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $1,840,866

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $4,378,914

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $835,709 · excluded $835,709

  • 7a · Gross sales of assets other than inventory

    securities $1,973,641

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

    securities $1,882,265

  • 7c · Gain or loss

    securities $91,376

  • 7d · Net gain or loss

    total $91,376 · related or exempt $91,376

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $1,017,623

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $29,960

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $441,020

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $576,603

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $3,418,468 · program services $3,418,468

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $297,005 · program services $120,326 · management and general $146,979 · fundraising $29,700

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $728,044 · program services $188,067 · management and general $200,730 · fundraising $339,247

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $25,899 · program services $7,792 · management and general $8,785 · fundraising $9,322

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $70,472 · program services $21,202 · management and general $23,905 · fundraising $25,365

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $78,254 · program services $23,496 · management and general $26,649 · fundraising $28,109

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $25,900 · management and general $25,900

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $141,626 · fundraising $141,626

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $43,833 · program services $10,271 · management and general $21,274 · fundraising $12,288

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $85,503 · program services $21,237 · management and general $38,859 · fundraising $25,407

  • 17 · Travel

    total $24,878 · program services $6,491 · management and general $10,621 · fundraising $7,766

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $33,969 · management and general $33,969

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $11,439 · management and general $11,439

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $21,649 · program services $6,513 · management and general $7,344 · fundraising $7,792

  • 24a · Other expenses: COMPUTER / IT EXP.

    total $48,956 · program services $14,729 · management and general $16,606 · fundraising $17,621

  • 24b · Other expenses: SOFTWARE EXPENSE

    total $47,290 · management and general $47,290

  • 24c · Other expenses: DONOR CULIVATION EXPENSE

    total $43,551 · fundraising $43,551

  • 24d · Other expenses: OUTREACH (MAILINGS & SUPP

    total $34,240 · fundraising $34,240

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $95,222 · management and general $67,339 · fundraising $27,883

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $2,674,002 · end of year $2,908,328

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $9,037,760 · end of year $4,452,531

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $440,216 · end of year $482,536

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $45,422 · end of year $67,961

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $258,476

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $136,973

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $126,943 · end of year $121,503

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    beginning of year $18,610,999 · end of year $27,260,482

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $601,459 · end of year $623,622

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $8,019 · end of year $14,304

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $420,022 · end of year $468,648

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $272,535 · end of year $244,816

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $5,905,155 · end of year $7,770,650

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $24,931,070 · end of year $27,418,545

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

ASSIST THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IN ITS MISSION TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK BY SECURING FINANCIAL AND VOLUNTEER SUPPORT.

  • EDUCATIONAL AND VISITOR SERVICES, BACK COUNTRY PROGRAMS, HISTORICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE PRESERVATION

    Expenses $3,838,592 · Grants $3,418,468

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Dana Soehn

    PRESIDENT AN

    Total calculated
    $186,733
    From this org
    $181,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,483
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,250
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,483
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $186,733

  • Nan Jones

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $121,930
    From this org
    $115,755
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,175
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sharon Miller Pryse

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jake Ogle

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Daves

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Webb

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kevin Anton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Scott Bane

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cindy Debusk

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Gigliotti

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eugene Naughton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Powell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chad Smith

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Annie Vanderwerken

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James M Hart

    PRESIDENT EM

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dan Matthews

    CHAIR EMERIT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mark Williams

    CHAIR EMERIT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Justice Gary Wade

    CHAIR EMERIT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

  • GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK

    $3,418,468

    PARK PROJECTS

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
1 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202621219349301852

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