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CHEROKEE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC

EIN 56-2272253 CHEROKEE, NC

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Revenue 2024
$9,791,468
Expenses 2024
$7,064,310

Program services were 95.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T30
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 504

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

TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR NATIVE CULTURE. ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE OVERALL WELL-BEING OF THE LIVES OF THE EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS (EBCI) AND OUR NEIGHBORS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

  • THE CHEROKEE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION IS A 501(C)(3) PUBLICLY SUPPORTED ORGANIZATION THAT ACCOMPLISHES ITS EXEMPT PURPOSE AND MISSION AS A GRANTMAKER, CONVENER, PARTNERSHIP BROKER AND COMMUNITY BUILDER. PLEASE SEE OUR EXTENDED STATEMENT OF PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN SCHEDULE O. THE ORGANIZATION MAINTAINS AND PRESERVES A COLLECTION OF CULTURAL ARTWORK FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO ENJOY.

    Expenses $6,723,618 · Grants $5,611,882 · Revenue $7,500,000

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.

  • Bobbie Raines

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $325,091
    From this org
    $295,537
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $29,554
    Hours/week
    50

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $180,000
    Bonus
    $56,558
    Other
    $58,979
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $29,554
    Filer's total
    $325,091

  • Ty Boyd

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Debora Forest

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Janell Rattler

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richie Sneed

    EBCI PRINCIPAL CHIEF

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Catcuce Tiger

    BOARD MEMBER-CHIEF APOINTED

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Smith

    BOARD MEMBER-CHIEF APPOINTED

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • April Ross

    BOARD MEMBER-RNSCHOOL NURSE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER-CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Louise Goings

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Richard French

    BOARD 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. 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
    $9,791,468
    Expenses
    $7,064,310
    Contributions
    $7,500,000
    Grants paid
    $5,611,882
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,618,882
    Expenses
    $6,370,951
    Contributions
    $7,500,000
    Grants paid
    $4,795,028

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
    $9,326,190
    Expenses
    $4,105,873
    Assets (EOY)
    $44,946,148

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,542,068
    Expenses
    $3,396,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $54,218,085

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,122,468
    Expenses
    $5,015,222
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,131,799

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,506,819
    Expenses
    $6,579,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,622,073

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,655,212
    Expenses
    $7,346,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,375,705

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,505,523
    Expenses
    $6,737,423
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,859,088

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,169,966
    Expenses
    $5,644,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,791,984

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,063,934
    Expenses
    $5,408,005
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,323,969

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,925,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,073,296

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $6,201,224
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,199,193

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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.