- Revenue 2024
- $39,655
- Expenses 2024
- $282,992
Program services were 20.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- S20
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 51 HIGHWAY 2034
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
EMBRACING OUR PAST, EMPOWERING OUR PEOPLE, AND UNLOCKING OUR FUTURE BY DEVELOPING A TOURISM INDUSTRY CLUSTER, AND REVITALIZING OUR COMMUNITIES IN THE COALFIELDS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY
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HOSTED 4 PUBLIC MEETINGS IN VARIOUS LOCATIONS IN LETCHER COUNTY TO SHARE OUR PROJECTS, BOOST COMMUNITY MORALE, AND SOLICIT FEEDBACK ON OUR WORK FURTHERING TOURISM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Expenses $19,549 · Grants $475
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ESTABLISHED FACADE IMPROVEMENT GRANT IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF WHITESBURG TO PROVIDE PROPERTY AND/OR BUSINESS OWNERS UP TO $1,000 TO SPRUCE UP THE OUTSIDE OF THEIR BUILDING OR STOREFRONT.
Expenses $20,073 · Grants $1,000
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PARTNERED WITH ONE EAST KENTUCKY, REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, TO ESTABLISH TWO "DOWNTOWN STRATEGIES" PLANS IN WHITESBURG AND IN JENKINS. THESE ARE DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PLANS.
Expenses $19,073
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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Charles W Matthews JrCHARLES W MATTHEWS JR
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Eli MatthewsELI MATTHEWS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.2
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Isaac MatthewsISAAC MATTHEWS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.2
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Jeffery JusticeJEFFERY JUSTICE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $70,300
- From this org
- $70,300
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 40
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Ina M MatthewsINA M MATTHEWS
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Donna J ChildersDONNA J CHILDERS
SECRETARY & TRASURER
- 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
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2024
- Revenue
- $39,655
- Expenses
- $282,992
- Contributions
- $39,655
- Grants paid
- $1,475
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2023
- Revenue
- $86,871
- Expenses
- $398,289
- Contributions
- $86,871
- Grants paid
- $234,567
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2022
- Revenue
- $321,093
- Expenses
- $75,441
- Contributions
- $321,093
- Grants paid
- $7,765
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
- $402,000
- Expenses
- $117,491
- Assets (EOY)
- $300,244
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 2020
- Tax period
- 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
- Principal officer
-
Ina Michelle Matthews
- Mailing address
- 51 Highway 2034Whitesburg KY 41858
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
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SHAPING OUR APPALACHIAN REGION INC
$183,767
2023 TOURISM
-
$39,600
2023 FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS
-
LETCHER COUNTY FISCAL COURT
$8,000
2023 TOURISM
Grants received
-
no cash amount reported
2022 RELIEF & ASSISTANCE
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.