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FINLANDIA FOUNDATION NATIONAL INC

EIN 95-6098250 PASADENA, CA

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Revenue 2024
$7,183,210
Expenses 2024
$1,592,738

Program services were 71.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
254 N LAKE AVE 852

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

AS THE PREMIER FINNISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, FINLANDIA FOUNDATION NATIONAL CHAMPIONS A VIBRANT FINNISH-AMERICAN HERITAGE AND LEGACY THAT BUILDS BRIDGES BETWEEN MODERN FINLAND AND THE UNITED STATES, ENABLING PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS TO SHARE IN THE TRADITIONS, VALUES, AND SPIRIT OF FINLAND AND FINNISH AMERICA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

ENABLING PEOPLE TO SHARE IN THE TRADITIONS, VALUES, & SPIRIT OF FINLAND & FINNISH AMERICA.

  • OPERATIONS OF FINLANDIA FOUNDATION NATIONAL, THE FINNISH AMERICAN HERITAGE CENTER, FINLANDIA ART GALLERY, PRICE OF FREEDOM MUSEUM, FINNISH AMERICAN FOLK SCHOOL, THE FINNISH AMERICAN REPORTER AND NORTH WIND BOOKS

    Expenses $785,770 · Revenue $125,529

  • FINLANDIA FOUNDATION PROVIDES A NEWSLETTER WITH THE LATEST NEWS FROM THE FOUNDATION, ITS CHAPTERS AND ELSEWHERE IN FINNISH AMERICA AND FINLAND.

    Expenses $99,526 · Revenue $73,256

  • FINLANDIA FOUNDATION AWARDS FUNDS TO PROJECTS RELATED TO FINNISH-AMERICAN AND FINNISH HISTORY, PRESERVATION, ARTS AND CULTURE. IN 2024 THE ORGANIZATION GRANTED $141,118 TO ORGANIZATIONS AND $106,011 TO INDIVIDUALS.

    Expenses $247,129 · Grants $247,129

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Michel Wendell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eeva Syvanen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kirsi St Marie

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tarja Silverman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Rowe

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Teuvo Pulkkinen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Timothy Nurvala

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peter Makila

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Katariina Lehtonen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elaine Kumpula

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jon Jurva

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ellen Harju

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Annika Ahonala

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dirk Schulbach

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacqueline Harjula

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anne-Mari Paster

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Paul Halme

    EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paivi Tetri

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Thomas Flanagan

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $185,114
    From this org
    $181,250
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,864
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $181,250
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,864
    Filer's total
    $185,114

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,183,210
    Expenses
    $1,592,738
    Contributions
    $6,192,745
    Grants paid
    $247,129
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,969,839
    Expenses
    $1,317,284
    Contributions
    $1,680,557
    Grants paid
    $401,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $554,829
    Expenses
    $688,483
    Contributions
    $430,200
    Grants paid
    $274,100

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
    $1,513,706
    Expenses
    $553,272
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,408,032

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $654,643
    Expenses
    $355,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,263,975

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $379,952
    Expenses
    $467,070
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,922,397

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

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.