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MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION CORP

EIN 04-3548523 UXBRIDGE, MA

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Revenue 2024
$49,763
Expenses 2024
$34,146

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C27
Classification
1200
Street
209 RICHARDSON 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 · 2024

Primary exempt purpose

To advance the development of a hybrid American Chestnut tree that is resistant to the chestnut fungal blight.

  • Establishment and maintenance of chestnut breeding, native diversity, and seed orchards in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Also provided a grant ($10,074) to University of Rhode Island Coastal Intern Program to start a seed chestnut orchard and mentor three undergraduate students to do the work.

    Expenses $31,806

  • Education about the American chestnut and the program to restore them. Also held a day long symposium at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts that discussed the challenges of resorting the American Chestnut and celebrate the 40th anniversary of The American Chestnut Foundation.

    Expenses $2,339

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.

  • Katherine Desjardin

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Brian Clark

    VP of Orchard Development

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Michael Novack

    VP of Scientific Planning

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Yvonne Federowicz

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paul Wetzel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • William Davis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Gray Curtis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Emery

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Michael Grames

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • John Meiklejohn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Bradford Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Joshua Soojian

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Edmund Croteau

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Nathaniel Lord

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Hoffman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • John Occhialini

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Laura Meyerson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

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
    $49,763
    Expenses
    $34,146
    Contributions
    $43,495
    Grants paid
    $10,074
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $41,886
    Expenses
    $23,815
    Contributions
    $37,376
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $42,953
    Expenses
    $20,649
    Contributions
    $39,253
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $45,680
    Expenses
    $21,661
    Assets (EOY)
    $39,525

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
Michael D Novack
Mailing address
509 Richardson StreetUxbridge MA 01339
Website
masschestnut.org

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

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.