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WARD MELVILLE HERITAGE ORGANIZATION LTD

EIN 11-2440592 STONY BROOK, NY

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Revenue 2023
$401,785
Expenses 2023
$1,303,079

Program services were 80.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A800
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 572

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).

Other organizations at this address

3 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

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Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO FOSTER COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY ENHANCING AND INTERPRETING ITS HISTORIC AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE PROPERTIES AND BY UTILIZING STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ORGANIZATION DEVELOPS AND FOSTERS COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT THROUGH EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS AT ITS HISTORIC AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROPERTIES.

  • By utilizing its historic and natural properties The WMHO provides people of all ages with diverse ways to engage in their surroundings. Three national and state register historic properties with ties to George Washingtons Culper Spy Rings are owned and interpreted by The WMHO. These properties include the Brewster House (c. 1655), The Thompson House (c. 1709), and The Stony Brook Grist Mill (c. 1751). The WMHOs educational and interpretive staff utilize these properties for school tours, lectures, and other educational programs throughout the year. The addition of distance learning equipment at the Brewster House and the Thompson House allows The WMHO to engage classes that cannot physically visit the site with the stories of the families that lived in these properties. Students from as far away as South Dakota have taken advantage of the distance learning technology that allows The WMHO to bring history to life. The WMHO environmental properties include an 88-acre wetland preserve and the Ernst Marine Conservation Center. Access to the 88-acre wetland preserve is led by naturalists on a 27-passenger pontoon boat. Naturalists point out the diverse species that call the wetlands home, pointing out animals of interest as the tour winds through the wetlands. The Ernst Marine Conservation Center houses two classrooms, touch tanks, and scientific equipment that encourage scientific discovery. As with the historic properties distance learning technology is a key component of the programs at the Ernst Marine Conservation Center. The Long Island Sound Connections program helps to bridge the Long Island Sound and connect students with peers on the opposite side. Students from both Long Island and Connecticut explore the Long Island Sound from their location and analyze differences and explore what causes these differences. This program allows students to engage with nature, while also learning how the behaviors of humans affect this important body of water. Beyond school programs, The WMHO engages visitors through a variety of community events bringing art, culture, music and dance to the community. Annually the programs of The WMHO are attended by over 10,000 people.

    Expenses $1,046,725

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.

  • Edward J Gutleber Esq

    Vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Huang-Ernst

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kathleen Mich

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Murdocco

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Napoli

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Daniel Rowe

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Richard Rugen

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mary Van Tuyl

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Graham Scaife

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chris Richey

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andy Skitmore

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Charles Lohmann

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gloria D Rocchio

    President

    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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $401,785
    Expenses
    $1,303,079
    Contributions
    $293,523
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $332,876
    Expenses
    $1,003,346
    Contributions
    $221,022
    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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $793,489
    Expenses
    $770,919
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,939,924
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $502,554
    Expenses
    $660,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $12,158,905
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $598,942
    Expenses
    $1,326,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,517,811
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $580,700
    Expenses
    $1,475,044
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,437,530
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $702,703
    Expenses
    $1,283,326
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,003,318
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $596,314
    Expenses
    $1,276,950
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,460,452
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $709,575
    Expenses
    $1,325,406
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,188,432

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.

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

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 2023 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2023 return

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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.