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HISTORICAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE NATIVE SONS OF GOLDEN WEST

EIN 94-3357423 AUBURN, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$81,266
Expenses 2025
$37,447

Program services were 88.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A80
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 6315

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

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.

  • 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

  • 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.

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.

  • Jedidiah Watson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    3
  • 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
  • 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 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $81,266
    Expenses
    $37,447
    Contributions
    $71,475
    Grants paid
    $31,951
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $80,091
    Expenses
    $35,843
    Contributions
    $72,712
    Grants paid
    $27,908
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $99,626
    Expenses
    $56,896
    Contributions
    $98,653
    Grants paid
    $52,261

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $57,636
    Expenses
    $100,608
    Assets (EOY)
    $241,716
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $114,890
    Expenses
    $100,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $289,188
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $26,629
    Expenses
    $58,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $281,042
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $205,164
    Expenses
    $64,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,631

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2017

Tax period
1 June 2017 to 31 May 2018
Principal officer
Erik Keilholtz
Mailing address
47 Capilano DriveVallejo CA 94590
Website
http://nsgw.org/historical-preservation-foundation/

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

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.