- Revenue 2025
- $240,000
- Expenses 2025
- $260,553
Program services were 66.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A54Z
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 43
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 · 2025
Mission
PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES THAT ENHANCE THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE AREA'S MARITIME HERITAGE. TOWARD THIS GOAL, IT MUST EFFECTIVELY RESTORE AND MAINTAIN THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY.
Activities or mission (Part I)
EDUCATE COMMUNITY AND RESTORE HISTORIC SITE.
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MUSEUM - PAID STAFF KEPT THE COMPLEX OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC FROM MARCH THROUGH DECEMBER DAILY. HOURS VARY IN THE OFF-SEASON BASED UPON VISITATION. MUSEUM ADMISSIONS APPROXIMATED 26,689 GUESTS IN 2025.
Expenses $84,624 · Revenue $118,877
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REPAIR AND RESTORATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AND SURROUNDING FACILITIES WITHIN LEELANAU STATE PARK.
Expenses $85,411
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LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER - "LIVE IN" THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR A WEEK, AND BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GREETING VISTORS AND PROVIDING HISTORICAL INFORMATION, ASSIST WITH GIFT SHOP AND MUSEUM ADMISSIONS, AND GENERAL GROUNDS MAINTENANCE.
Expenses $2,771 · Revenue $13,739
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.
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JIM BENSLEY
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
ROSE COLEMAN
VICE PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
JOE COLEMAN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
-
CHRIS DOYAL
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
GAIL ROBERTS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEPHANIE ROSINSKI
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MARK THOMAS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
STEFANIE STALEY
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $79,362
- From this org
- $70,075
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $9,287
- 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
-
2025
- Revenue
- $240,000
- Expenses
- $260,553
- Contributions
- $26,222
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2024
- Revenue
- $314,482
- Expenses
- $223,827
- Contributions
- $82,407
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $253,741
- Expenses
- $211,459
- Contributions
- $50,293
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $267,052
- Expenses
- $233,126
- Contributions
- $55,245
- 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
- $303,145
- Expenses
- $180,884
- Assets (EOY)
- $304,008
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $158,093
- Expenses
- $191,799
- Assets (EOY)
- $183,327
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $241,706
- Expenses
- $201,760
- Assets (EOY)
- $196,433
-
2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $224,528
- Expenses
- $204,424
- Assets (EOY)
- $176,165
-
2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $183,202
- Expenses
- $184,983
- Assets (EOY)
- $163,031
-
2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $189,457
- Expenses
- $154,274
- Assets (EOY)
- $131,215
-
2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $177,192
- Expenses
- $214,535
- Assets (EOY)
- $113,822
-
2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $189,032
- Expenses
- $171,779
- Assets (EOY)
- $152,553
-
2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $165,691
- Expenses
- $173,495
- Assets (EOY)
- $124,042
-
2012 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $146,007
- Assets (EOY)
- $131,441
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
-
2023 FUND PURCHASE OF BOAT ENGINE
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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.