FRENCH COLONIAL AMERICA

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

A54

Classification

2000

Street

198 MARKET 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).

Mission and programs · 2023

• Our organization offers historic house tours, exhibits and public programs that explain and teach about the history of French Colonial America and French "Creole" culture, particularly in Upper Louisiana, as it is illustrated through the story of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri in the late 18th to early 19th centuries. Our programs introduce audiences of diverse backgrounds and age levels to the distinctive French vertical timber architecture, imperial Spanish rule from the 1760s to 1800, daily life in the colonial era, and the development of a unique Creole culture in this region, which grew from the interaction of the colonists of French descent with Native Americans, Africans, and other groups. In 2022, our museum campus, The Centre for French Colonial Life, served a total of 17,815 visitors, indicating a gradual recovery from the impact of the Covid pandemic, which had reduced visitation to 7,773 in 2020, and 14,888 in 2021. Historic preservation is a key part of our mission as well as education: in addition to a modern exhibits facility, our museum campus includes four historic buildings dating from the late 18th to mid-nineteenth centuries. Our staff in 2023 consisted of 21 full and part-time employees, serving administrative, education, curatorial, and building maintenance functions.

  Expenses $437,500 · Revenue $42,680

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.

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

  $339,833

  Expenses

  $509,859

  Contributions

  $263,529

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,034,650

  Expenses

  $503,057

  Contributions

  $994,304

  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

  $309,366

  Expenses

  $458,303

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,093,473

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,037,115

  Expenses

  $433,665

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,222,917

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

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $28,000

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES

  $25,000

  2024

• NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES

  $25,000

  2025 · EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

• ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

  $25,000

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

  $25,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• JEFFERSON NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION INC

  $22,500

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES

  $20,500

  2023

Other IRS files