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KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION

EIN 51-6015181 WILMINGTON, DE

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Revenue 2024
$1,676,556
Expenses 2024
$1,950,854

Program services were 71.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1124 E 7TH ST

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

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE KALMAR NYCKEL FOUNDATION (KNF) IS A VOLUNTEER-BASED EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION WITH A MISSION "TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE CULTURAL AND MARITIME HERITAGE OF DELAWARE AND THE DELAWARE VALLEY FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT OF ALL."

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE UNIQUE PROGRAMMING RELATED TO THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL, MARITIME AND COMMERCIAL HERITAGE OF DELAWARE AND THE DELAWARE VALLEY USING THE TALL SHIP KALMAR NYCKEL AS A PLATFORM.

  • OUR MODERN-DAY KALMAR NYCKEL THE OFFICIAL TALL SHIP OF DELAWARE HAS BECOME ONE OF THE REGION'S GREAT EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. AS A FULL-SCALE AND FAITHFUL REPRODUCTION OF THE SQUARE-RIGGED SHIP THAT FOUNDED THE COLONY OF NEW SWEDEN IN 1638, THE PRESENT-DAY KALMAR NYCKEL SERVES AS A FLOATING CLASSROOM AND INSPIRATIONAL PLATFORM FOR KNF'S AWARD-WINNING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. KALMAR NYCKEL VOYAGES OVER 2,400 NAUTICAL MILES EACH YEAR, SAILING FROM APRIL TO NOVEMBER, AND OUR SHIP AND SHORE PROGRAMS REACH MORE THAN 35,000 PEOPLE DURING A TYPICAL YEAR.

    Expenses $557,294 · Revenue $413,974

  • WITH OUR COPELAND MARITIME CENTER AND REVITALIZED SHIPYARD CAMPUS, WE HAVE BECOME A YEAR-ROUND DESTINATION FOR BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC VISITORS, STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND 250 ACTIVE VOLUNTEERS. IN TYPICAL YEARS, OUR FIELD TRIP PROGRAMS, CLASSROOM PROGRAMS, AND SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY EVENTS REACH OVER 20,000 PEOPLE A YEAR. ANOTHER 15,000 PEOPLE OF ALL AGES VISIT OUR SHIP FOR SAILING ADVENTURES AND DOCKSIDE TOURS.

    Expenses $832,684 · Revenue $82,215

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.

  • Tina Betz

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher Brooks

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Joseph Butera

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Thomas Collins

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vernita Dorsey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ake Fagelberg

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Friz

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Va Harra Jr

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kyle Hill

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Fred Hocker

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Maria Iversen

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melissa Kenny

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Adam Knox

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gary C Linarducci

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Massey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Megan McGlinchey

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Caroline McIlvain

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • George Meldrum

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christine Moritz

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kimberly Padley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew Cloud

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nancy Schragger

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kamela Smith

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Gerald G Forney

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nigel Veater

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,676,556
    Expenses
    $1,950,854
    Contributions
    $705,207
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,533,084
    Expenses
    $1,791,564
    Contributions
    $761,004
    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
    $1,416,148
    Expenses
    $1,826,480
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,078,536
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,406,685
    Expenses
    $1,583,494
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,489,690
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,422,322
    Expenses
    $1,601,290
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,727,029
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,246,247
    Expenses
    $1,621,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,739,551
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,300,242
    Expenses
    $1,519,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $10,204,509
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,947,602
    Expenses
    $1,212,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,084,822
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,132,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,958,868
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,017,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,359,989
  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $965,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,588,185

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

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

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.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • CHRISTINA'S ANNEX LLC

    REAL ESTATE · DE · income $216,517 · assets $1,879,844

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.