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CATOCTIN FURNACE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

EIN 52-1038473 THURMONT, MD

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Revenue 2025
$925,273
Expenses 2025
$755,899

Program services were 89.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
12610 CATOCTIN FURNACE RD

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 · 2025

Mission

TO STUDY, COMMEMORATE AND PRESERVE THE UNIQUE AND RICH HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE AND RESEARCH AND INTERPRET THE DARK HERITAGE OF THE ENSLAVED AND TO REMIND ALL OF THE WORKERS WHO BUILT THIS NATION

Activities or mission (Part I)

CELEBRATE, STUDY AND PRESERVE THE ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, LIFE, AND FOODWAYS OF THE DIVERSE IRON WORKERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

  • PRESERVATION OF HISTORICAL STRUCTURES THROUGH TRAINING OF AT RISK STUDENTS CFHS PARTNERS WITH SILVER OAK ACADEMY TO TRAIN AT RISK STUDENTS IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION BUILDING TRADES. THE BUILDINGS IN CATOCTIN FURNACE ARE CA.1810- CA.1830 AND REPRESENT WORKERS HOUSES BUILT BY ENSLAVED LABOR, PROVIDING A UNIQUE SETTING FOR RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION TRAINING AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CRAFTSMANSHIP THE PROGRAM TEACHES STUDENTS A LOVE OF HISTORY, MATERIALS, QUALITY WORKMANSHIP AND WORKING WITH THEIR HANDS TO BUILD, RESTORE AND PRESERVE STRUCTURES DESIGNED TO LAST.

    Expenses $621,810

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION - WORKING WITH GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL VISITORS AND STUDENTS, CFHS PROVIDES MEANINGFUL PROGRAMMING. A COMMITMENT TO RESEARCHING AND INTERPRETING THE DARK HERITAGE OF THE ENSLAVED AT CATOCTIN IS A PRIMARY FOCUS, AS IS KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AS REPARATIVE ACTION.

    Expenses $36,331

  • IMPROVEMENTS OF THE LIVES OF VILLAGE RESIDENTS THROUGH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL BENEFITS EMANATING FROM THE HISTORIC SITE AND THROUGH VISITATION TO EVENTS, MAKING THE VILLAGE AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO LIVE, WORK IN AND CARE ABOUT. ANNUAL EVENTS SUCH AS TRADITIONAL VILLAGE CHRISTMAS,THE MARYLAND IRON FESTIVAL, SPIRITS OF THE FURNACE, AND IN THEIR OWN VOICES ENRICH THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO VISIT AND PARTICIPATE, STIMULATING JOBS, TAX REVENUE AND VISITOR SPENDING.

    Expenses $15,286

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Elizabeth A Comer

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Stephen Dill

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Anne Comer

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Elizabeth McGee

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Beverly Hoke

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ken Brink

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Nancy Anderson

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Joann Miller

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Machele Jones

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Marilyn Smith

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Rhonda Tesser

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Crystal Emory

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Christopher Gardiner

    PRESIDENT EMERITUS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $925,273
    Expenses
    $755,899
    Contributions
    $923,978
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $499,427
    Expenses
    $182,649
    Contributions
    $491,085
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $202,473
    Expenses
    $263,004
    Contributions
    $194,992
    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
    $483,197
    Expenses
    $324,577
    Assets (EOY)
    $404,273

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $251,471
    Expenses
    $219,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $122,087

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $254,675
    Expenses
    $230,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,072

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Elizabeth Comer
Mailing address
8302 STEVENS RDTHURMONT MD 21788

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.