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FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC

EIN 51-0201160 MANCHESTER, VT

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Revenue 2024
$3,324,492
Expenses 2024
$3,321,989

Program services were 75.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 377

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

THE MISSION OF THE FRIENDS OF HILDENE, INC. IS "VALUES INTO ACTION". OUR CORE VALUES ARE "INTEGRITY, PERSEVERENCE, AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY". OUR KEY ACTIONS ARE "PRESERVATION, LAND CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABILITY AND CIVIL CIVIC DISCOURSE".

  • EACH YEAR HILDENE'S STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS WELCOME THOUSANDS OF GUESTS TO THE LINCOLN HOME, GROUNDS AND WALKING TRAILS. HILDENE'S OPEN LAND AND RESTORED BUILDINGS BEST SERVE THE PUBLIC AS AN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCE, AND AS A MEMORIAL TO THE LINCOLN FAMILY.

    Expenses $2,499,288 · Revenue $799,838

  • HISTORICAL PRESERVATION OF 412 ACRES AND FOURTEEN HISTORIC BUILDINGS, INCLUDING A FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN THAT EMPHASIZES SUSTAINABILITY OVER SHORT-TERM PROFIT, SUCH AS REMOVAL OF INVASIVE SPECIES AND SELECTIVE CUTTING TO ENSURE THE LONGER-TERM GOAL OF HIGHER QUALITY, AESTHETICALLY PLEASING VERMONT FOREST. TREES ARE HARVESTED AND RUN THROUGH A PORTABLE SAW MILL TO PRODUCE LUMBER TO CONSTRUCT BUILDINGS. CUT WOOD IS ALSO USED TO FEED WOOD-BURNING FURNACES TO EFFICIENTLY HEAT MANY OF THE BUILDINGS.

  • PUBLIC EDUCATION IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE HILDENE MISSION, INCLUDING A LINCOLN LECTURE SERIES, A LIBRARY AND RESEARCH CENTER, A LINCOLN ESSAY COMPETITION, BOOK PUBLISHING, THE ROWLAND AGRICULTURAL CENTER AT WHICH STAFF MILKS GOATS AND MAKES CHEESE, PLUS A SECOND AGRICULTURAL OPERATION AT DENE FARM WITH ALPACAS, CATTLE, PIGS, SHEEP, CHICKENS AND RABBITS, A COLLABORATION WITH THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL INVOLVING DOZENS OF STUDENTS TAKING CLASSES AT DENE FARM EVERY DAY DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR AND THE LOWERRE FAMILY YOUTH EDUCATION CENTER WHICH IS HOME TO CHILDREN'S EDUCATION PROGRAMS THAT TEACH HISTORY, NATURAL SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE.

  • MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITIES

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.

  • Anne Archer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Robert Hallenbeck

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Carol Kalliche

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Paul Lowerre

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Megan Mayhew-Bergman

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jay Flynn

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jim Evans

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Walker Kimball

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Jim Maiella

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Randall Perkins

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Brian Keefe

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,324,492
    Expenses
    $3,321,989
    Contributions
    $2,366,259
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,633,394
    Expenses
    $3,563,825
    Contributions
    $3,739,537
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,107,432
    Expenses
    $3,169,339
    Contributions
    $3,007,776
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,299,027
    Expenses
    $3,052,868
    Assets (EOY)
    $15,529,063
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,396,139
    Expenses
    $2,540,129
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,755,112
  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,760,247
    Expenses
    $2,801,026
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,408,568
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,506,588
    Expenses
    $2,700,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,450,173
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,468,344
    Expenses
    $2,497,556
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,861,128

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

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

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 11 November 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.