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NEW BEDFORD FISHING HERITAGE CENTER INC

EIN 47-2147308 NEW BEDFORD, MA

Revenue 2025
$375,109
Expenses 2025
$365,586

Program services were 83.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A54
Classification
2000
Street
38 BETHEL STREET

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

Sharing the story of New Bedfords fishing community with the world, the Fishing Heritage Center documents and preserves the history and culture of the fishing industry, maintains a public archive, produces exhibits and presents a wide range of public programs and events.

  • The Center presents a variety of educational programs to school and tour groups and the general public inluding a free summer camp, monthly documentary films, a speaker series, walking tours, lectures, craft and cooking classes, as well as special events such as festivals and conferences. Our exhibits include a permanent exhibit and 2-4 gallery exhibits developed and presented annually. We have an ongoing community documentation project conducting and transcribing oral history interviews with members of the fishing community. Additionally, we maintain a digital archive of scanned photographs and documents from the fishing community. We also host fishing community events and industry meetings. Program expenses include staff time, program supplies, printing, graphics design, honoraria for presenters, and other related expenses.

    Expenses $306,600 · Revenue $74,820

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.

  • Jeff Dubois

    Board Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Nancy Harding

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Ed Sylvia

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debra Kelsey

    Secretary Outgoing

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Cassie Canastra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Judy Farrar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Frank

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Mike Pol

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Jeffrey Pagliuca

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Charles Smiler

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Stacy Alexander-Nevells

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Yasmine Andre Blatchley

    Secretary Incoming

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kaylen Quintin Duquette

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

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
    $375,109
    Expenses
    $365,586
    Contributions
    $301,034
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $340,998
    Expenses
    $422,635
    Contributions
    $266,191
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $360,671
    Expenses
    $255,504
    Contributions
    $337,843
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $215,060
    Expenses
    $233,582
    Contributions
    $201,917
    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
    $396,579
    Expenses
    $330,162
    Assets (EOY)
    $164,677

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $278,429
    Expenses
    $250,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,330

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,648
    Expenses
    $224,938
    Assets (EOY)
    $112,454

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $159,217
    Expenses
    $194,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $62,794

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $167,314
    Expenses
    $199,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,397

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $264,536
    Expenses
    $158,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $130,874

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $40,517
    Expenses
    $27,488
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,362

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 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Phillip Mello
Mailing address
PO Box 2052New Bedford MA 02741

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 19 October 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

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.