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DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION

EIN 85-2195817 BATON ROUGE, LA

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Revenue 2025
$2,038,686
Expenses 2025
$1,993,669

Program services were 78.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R22
Classification
1200
Street
450 LAUREL ST STE 1440

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

FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS OF CERTIFIED DESCENDANTS OF JESUIT SLAVEHOLDING, THE DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION HAS FORGED TWO SIGNIFICANT PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT ITS CORE PILLARS. FIRST, A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND (TMCF) PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESCENDANTS ENROLLED IN ACCREDITED POST-SECONDARY U.S. INSTITUTIONS. SECOND, A COLLABORATION WITH ROSARIUM HEALTH DELIVERS SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE HOME IMPROVEMENTS FOR ELDERLY AND INFIRM DESCENDANTS. THE FOUNDATION'S THIRD PILLAR FOCUSES ON INVESTING IN TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING, AND RECONCILIATION IN COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT AMERICA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION WILL PROVIDE MORAL, INTELLECTUAL AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES THAT ARE ENGAGED IN TRUTH-SEEKING, RACIAL HEALING AND TRANSFORMATIVE PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT CAN LEAD TO INTERNALIZING THE TRUTH ABOUT SLAVERY, DISMANTLING THE REMNANTS OF THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN AMERICA, MITIGATING THE DESTRUCTIVE PRESENCE OF RACISM, AND ACHIEVING THE ATONEMENT AND RECONCILIATION THAT IS BADLY NEEDED BY OUR NATION AND THE WORLD.

  • FOCUSED ON THE NEEDS OF CERTIFIED DESCENDANTS OF JESUIT SLAVEHOLDING, THE DESCENDANTS TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION FOUNDATION HAS FORGED TWO SIGNIFICANT PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT ITS CORE PILLARS. FIRST, A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND (TMCF) PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESCENDANTS ENROLLED IN ACCREDITED POST-SECONDARY U.S. INSTITUTIONS. SECOND, A COLLABORATION WITH ROSARIUM HEALTH DELIVERS SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE HOME IMPROVEMENTS FOR ELDERLY AND INFIRM DESCENDANTS. THE FOUNDATION'S THIRD PILLAR FOCUSES ON INVESTING IN TRUTH, RACIAL HEALING, AND RECONCILIATION IN COMMUNITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT AMERICA.

    Expenses $1,568,484 · Grants $810,015 · Revenue $125,833

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Monique Trusclair Maddox

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $307,804
    From this org
    $285,722
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,082
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $282,933
    Bonus
    $2,789
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,140
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,942
    Filer's total
    $307,804

  • Father Timothy P Kesicki

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Joseph A Ferrara PhD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • John K Pierre JD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • La June Montgomery Tabron

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Archbishop Shelton J Fabre

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Monica Haslip

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $2,000
    From this org
    $2,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Katrina Albrandt

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Father Scott Santarosa

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Father Karl Kiser

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Cheryl Campbell

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Cheryl E Hall Esq

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $2,500
    From this org
    $2,500
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,038,686
    Expenses
    $1,993,669
    Contributions
    $1,912,853
    Grants paid
    $810,015
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $971,279
    Expenses
    $1,107,786
    Contributions
    $861,192
    Grants paid
    $228,128
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,867,702
    Expenses
    $500,035
    Contributions
    $2,832,832
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $581,870
    Expenses
    $220,251
    Contributions
    $581,870
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Joseph Stewart
Mailing address
616 Harding BoulevardBaton Rouge LA 70807
Website
www.descendants.org

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

Declared as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.