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LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION

EIN 20-4631230 KNOXVILLE, TN

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Revenue 2025
$6,030,573
Expenses 2025
$4,239,032

Program services were 95.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N112
Classification
1000
Street
900 VOLUNTEER LANDING LANE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION WORKS TO ENSURE THAT OUR REGION ENJOYS EXCEPTIONAL RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, NATURAL BEAUTY AND OPEN SPACES, AND THAT THOSE ASSETS EXIST FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION WORKS TO ASSURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY ENJOYS EXCEPTIONAL RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, NATURAL BEAUTY AND OPEN SPACES, AND THAT THOSE ASSETS EXIST FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.

  • LEGACY PARKS FOUNDATION WORKS TO CREATE PUBLIC PLACES, PROMOTE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND HELP CONSERVE NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE EAST TENNESSEE REGION. ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE HELPING ESTABLISH SIXTEEN NEW PUBLIC PARKS, CONSTRUCTING UNIQUE PLAYGROUNDS, BUILDING NEW MULTI-USE TRAILS AND BOAT LAUNCHES, PROVIDING OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING TO UNDERSERVED GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS AND CONSERVING IMPORTANT FOREST AND FARMLAND.

    Expenses $4,048,575

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Cecilia Petersen

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Julie Moul

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cathy Ackermann

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bruce Bosse

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Gheen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dave Collins

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sheryl Ely

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christi Branscom

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jenny Hines

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bart Carey

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Greg Marret

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Courtney Durrett

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Mamantov

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joe Mack

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Bill Mason

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Don Parnell

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Todd Skelton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Will Skelton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charlie Thomas

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Thurman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carol Evans

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $176,012
    From this org
    $176,012
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $176,012
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $176,012

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $6,030,573
    Expenses
    $4,239,032
    Contributions
    $5,904,295
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,482,372
    Expenses
    $1,995,847
    Contributions
    $2,325,927
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,184,525
    Expenses
    $1,221,024
    Contributions
    $2,092,062
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,273,267
    Expenses
    $813,678
    Contributions
    $1,125,373
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,000,351
    Expenses
    $608,643
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,339,940
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,567,728
    Expenses
    $1,295,185
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,019,629
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $836,512
    Expenses
    $642,621
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,699,628
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $830,976
    Expenses
    $475,353
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,536,948
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $771,379
    Expenses
    $715,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,194,744
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,189,731
    Expenses
    $766,440
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,156,246
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $651,549
    Expenses
    $2,182,745
    Assets (EOY)
    $725,656
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $629,474
    Expenses
    $1,041,076
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,269,837
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,029,155
    Expenses
    $732,574
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,634,946
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $456,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,377,408

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.