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THE CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSONS POPLAR FOREST

EIN 54-1258296 FOREST, VA

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Revenue 2023
$1,726,077
Expenses 2023
$2,241,588

Program services were 65.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
2000
Street
PO BOX 419

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 · 2023

Mission

TO PRESERVE THOMAS JEFFERSON'S PERSONAL RETREAT AND PLANTATION, TO INSPIRE EXPLORATION OF HIS ENDURING LEGACY, AND TO TELL THE STORIES OF THE FREE AND ENSLAVED PEOPLE WHO LIVED AND WORKED AT POPLAR FOREST.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION OF THE CORPORATION FOR JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST IS TO PRESERVE, INSPIRE, AND TELL THE EMERGING STORY OF THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST. WE ENVISION A RESTORED POPLAR FOREST THAT IGNITES CURIOSITY, UNDERSTANDING, AND ENGAGEMENT.

  • INVESTIGATION AND RESTORATION OF JEFFERSON-DESIGNED BUILDINGS AT HIS RETREAT (1806). INCLUDES COSTS OTHER THAN THOSE CAPITALIZED

    Expenses $475,978

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF JEFFERSON'S ORNAMENTAL AND PLANTATION LANDSCAPE; INCLUDING STRUCTURES THAT HOUSED THE ENSLAVED COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $418,075

  • EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING GUIDED TOURS, HANDS-ON PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN, FIELD SCHOOLS FOR ADULTS, AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS

    Expenses $568,149 · Revenue $385,830

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Francis B Teague III

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Boyce Brannock

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dennis A Dutterer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • John A Constance

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • J Frederick Armstrong

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Heidi F James

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael J Schewel

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • T Henry Clarke V

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Benjamin Marchi

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Wendy L Tackett

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Teresa Harris

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael C Quinn

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William W Semones

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Justin McCarthy

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dr Kathryn M Pumphrey

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kelvin Moore

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Catherine W Lynn

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stephen H Watts II

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Christian Stevens Wayt

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Sterling A Wilder

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Remmel T Dickinson

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Amy G Ray

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Spiller

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Gayle Jessup White

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alyson M Ramsey

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $146,605
    From this org
    $129,635
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,970
    Hours/week
    40

The first 25 listed. 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,726,077
    Expenses
    $2,241,588
    Contributions
    $1,104,821
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,289,501
    Expenses
    $2,007,188
    Contributions
    $1,664,477
    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

  • 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
    $2,957,319
    Expenses
    $1,779,971
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,309,738

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,960,718
    Expenses
    $1,707,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,290,514

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,204,537
    Expenses
    $2,102,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,868,802

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,686,551
    Expenses
    $2,104,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,317,381

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,361,355
    Expenses
    $2,013,364
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,561,899

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,161,655
    Expenses
    $2,180,760
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,011,651

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 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.