- Revenue 2024
- $596,550
- Expenses 2024
- $697,414
Program services were 73.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A500
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 133 MABEL DR
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 · 2024
Mission
The organizations mission is to preserve the marine, naval, and maritime history of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, including its cultural heritage. We do so by collecting , preserving, analyzing, interpreting, and exhibiting these cultural resources.
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Museum and Exhibits: To provide and maintain a maritime facility that serves children, families, and visitors as a repository to preserve the marine, naval and maritime history and cultural heritage of the lake pontchartrain basin, lower Mississippi River, and the gulf coast by collecting, exhibiting and intepreting records,documents, manuscripts, maps, photographs and other significant material that will illustrate and explain this history and the various industries associated with it.
Expenses $262,027 · Revenue $18,549
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Wooden Boat Festival: This event is held each year to pay tribute to the hand crafted wooden boats of the Gulf Coast Region. Hundreds of boats line the banks of the Tchefuncte River while thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts celebrate the wonders of wood and water.
Expenses $150,690 · Revenue $271,721
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Maritime Research and Educational Programs: In association with Southeastern Louisiana University, Tulane University, The St. Tammany Parish School System, and others with an interest in history, maritime related sciences and education, the museum actively pursues the research mission that initially inspired the museums founders. This includes historical research, the collection of maritime related oral histories, the development of small underwater robots (to investigate local waters)to inspire local students to pursue this fascinating scientific field. This is a collaborative program for college students related to museum management and exhibit construction. The organization also participates in outreach programs to make the extremely interesting, but little known, history of the area more readily accesible to all.
Expenses $54,091
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Remainder Program Services - 2
Expenses $43,211
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 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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Jim MacPherson
Executive Director
- Total calculated
- $46,210
- From this org
- $46,210
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 45
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John Bell
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Gwen Bulotte
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Michaelyn Broussard
Exec Comm
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Warren Davie
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Elaine Gardner
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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Samantha Goodwin
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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Lynne Haase
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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Lora Haddox
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Barney Knoess
Exec Comm
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Don Lynch
Curator
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Todd Loup
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Joel Whitehead
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.1
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Louise Lovich
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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John Gniady
Past President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Hooper Harris
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Daniel Munn
Board Member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.25
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Danny Schaus
Exec Comm
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Michael Gagliardi
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tom Meehan
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Alexis Hocevar
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Steven Marcus
Vice President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $596,550
- Expenses
- $697,414
- Contributions
- $181,270
- Grants paid
- $0
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2023
- Revenue
- $630,884
- Expenses
- $824,855
- Contributions
- $120,120
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $544,883
- Expenses
- $561,494
- Contributions
- $138,661
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $327,024
- Expenses
- $358,436
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,623,595
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $39,671
- Expenses
- $279,716
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,635,731
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $348,679
- Expenses
- $532,982
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,726,874
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $441,289
- Expenses
- $552,476
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,891,211
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $392,672
- Expenses
- $559,302
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,008,922
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $520,829
- Expenses
- $611,027
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,177,026
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $688,302
- Expenses
- $669,289
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,303,209
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $512,744
- Expenses
- $561,328
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,236,193
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $458,073
- Expenses
- $585,777
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,289,742
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2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $535,157
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,394,832
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
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2022 PROGRAM SERVICE
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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.