- Revenue 2025
- $4,029,153
- Expenses 2025
- $4,018,037
Program services were 82.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 303 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR BLVD
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
THE SOCIETY CONDUCTS PROGRAMS FOR DAYTIME VISITORS, SITE IMPROVEMENTS OF HISTORIC LANDMARKS, PUBLICATIONS, AND SPECIAL EVENING PROGRAMS.
Activities or mission (Part I)
THE SOCIETY CONDUCTS PROGRAMS FOR DAYTIME VISITORS, SITE IMPROVEMENTS OF HISTORIC LANDMARKS, PUBLICATIONS AND SPECIAL EVENING PROGRAMS.
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THE SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF THE SURROUDING AREA. IT ACCOMPLISHES THIS OBJECTIVE BY THE OPERATION OF RESTORED HISTORICAL SITES THAT PROVIDE PROGRAMS, EXHIBITS, AND PUBLICATIONS FOR VISITORS.
Expenses $3,296,747 · Revenue $3,628,382
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.
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Nora LeeNORA LEE
CEO
- Total calculated
- $107,000
- From this org
- $107,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
-
Erika ConleayERIKA CONLEAY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Carol CoppollaCAROL COPPOLLA
PAST CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kyle DoyonKYLE DOYON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Tim EllisTIM ELLIS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kristin KingKRISTIN KING
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Rachel LesherRACHEL LESHER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Heather LundyHEATHER LUNDY
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Kim LyleKIM LYLE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Deanne MitchellDEANNE MITCHELL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Lisa PuhalaLISA PUHALA
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ben SengerBEN SENGER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Ryan SewellRYAN SEWELL
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Joe ShearhouseJOE SHEARHOUSE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Barry ShelleyBARRY SHELLEY
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Will WheatWILL WHEAT
TRUSTEE
- 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2025
- Revenue
- $4,029,153
- Expenses
- $4,018,037
- Contributions
- $440,680
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $3,569,405
- Expenses
- $3,835,332
- Contributions
- $373,457
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,687,776
- Expenses
- $3,917,365
- Contributions
- $981,875
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,572,311
- Expenses
- $3,921,660
- Contributions
- $308,636
- 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
- $3,680,449
- Expenses
- $2,677,234
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,223,503
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,166,564
- Expenses
- $2,739,400
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,763,251
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,518,687
- Expenses
- $3,270,339
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,914,959
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,308,894
- Expenses
- $3,347,505
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,641,533
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,988,622
- Expenses
- $3,364,395
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,625,476
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,828,856
- Expenses
- $3,593,162
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,910,234
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.
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
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2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2024 FINANCIAL SUPPORT
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$100,000
2023 EDUCATIONAL GRANT
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CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA
$81,079
2024 CHARITABLE DONATION
-
2022 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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2023 For grant recipient's exempt purposes
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$15,762
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$15,000
2024 to conserve historical artifacts
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2024 During the Savannah (Georgia) Harbor Expansion Project, 19 cannons from the Revolutionary War were recovered in the Savannah River. GSSDAR donated $15,000 to restore one of the cannons.
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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.