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SPECIAL LIBERTY PROJECT INC

EIN 81-4039938 FRANKLIN, NC

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Revenue 2025
$194,506
Expenses 2025
$175,168

Program services were 66.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P80
Classification
1000
Street
635 BERRY COVE RD

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

Primary exempt purpose

The Special Liberty Project provides combat wounded veterans with supported and educational outdoor experiences and providing them with companionship and a challenging and enriching experience.

  • Provided veterans and their families with outdoor experiences through the Gold Star Corps and Veteran Adventures activities.

    Expenses $116,464

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.

  • Jessica Merritt

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $62,308
    Compensation
    $62,308
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    30

  • Marty Merritt

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cory Merritt

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $194,506
    Expenses
    $175,168
    Contributions
    $194,506
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $114,249
    Expenses
    $148,140
    Contributions
    $114,249
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $113,736
    Expenses
    $142,404
    Contributions
    $113,736
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $149,522
    Expenses
    $141,272
    Contributions
    $149,522
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $112,910
    Expenses
    $121,096
    Assets (EOY)
    $97,406

  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $91,454
    Expenses
    $92,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,139

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $135,812
    Expenses
    $109,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $117,997

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $110,082
    Expenses
    $36,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,637

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $110,082
    Expenses
    $36,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,637

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 2017

Tax period
1 January 2017 to 31 December 2017
Principal officer
Jessica Merritt
Mailing address
2955 Dye RdRamona CA 92065
Website
www.speciallibertyproject.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

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 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.