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CHEROKEE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC

EIN 56-0623957 CHEROKEE, NC

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Revenue 2025
$2,752,959
Expenses 2025
$2,736,021

Program services were 71.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A800
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 398

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

CHEROKEE INDIAN IN NORTH AMERICA

  • UNTO THESE HILLS IS AN OUTDOOR DRAMA DEPICTING THE HISTORY OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN TRIBE. OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. OCONALUFTEE INDIAN VILLAGE IS A FULL SIZE REPLICA OF AN 18TH CENTRY CHEROKEE INDIAN VILLAGE. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. QUALLA CREATIONS IS A RETAIL STORE SPECIALIZING INT HE SALE FO HAND CRAFTED ITEM BY LOCAL MEMBERS OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN TRIBE. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

    Expenses $1,952,670 · Revenue $1,514,664

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.

  • Larry Blythe

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Andrew Oocumma

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Hope Huskey

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Eliza Reed

    FINANCE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $55,738
    From this org
    $55,738
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Emma McMillan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Marina Hunley-Graham

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $52,044
    From this org
    $52,044
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Laura Blythe

    INTERIM CO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $66,950
    From this org
    $66,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Lance Culpepper

    INTERIM CO EXE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $66,950
    From this org
    $66,950
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jeremy Hyatt

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Paxton Myers

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Perry Shell

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Lavita Hill

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Yona Wade

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $2,752,959
    Expenses
    $2,736,021
    Contributions
    $892,908
    Grants paid
    $384,764
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,951,589
    Expenses
    $2,768,676
    Contributions
    $1,150,535
    Grants paid
    $539,015
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $470,895
    Expenses
    $2,598,506
    Contributions
    $470,895
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,328,487
    Expenses
    $2,907,768
    Contributions
    $639,140
    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
    $3,208,041
    Expenses
    $2,171,790
    Assets (EOY)
    $736,664
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,279,391
    Expenses
    $1,146,397
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,327,974
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,267,886
    Expenses
    $2,190,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,268,628
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,198,723
    Expenses
    $2,222,851
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,319,991
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,384,252
    Expenses
    $2,703,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,360,108
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,179,331
    Expenses
    $2,534,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,198,846
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,233,307
    Expenses
    $2,236,749
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,168,731
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,725,559
    Expenses
    $2,108,515
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,138,830
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,810,341
    Expenses
    $2,074,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,540,403

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.