MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION CORP
EIN 04-3548523 UXBRIDGE, MA
- 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.
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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
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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.
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Katherine Desjardin
President
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 20
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Brian Clark
VP of Orchard Development
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Michael Novack
VP of Scientific Planning
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Yvonne Federowicz
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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Paul Wetzel
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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William Davis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Gray Curtis
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John Emery
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Michael Grames
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Karen Jones
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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John Meiklejohn
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Bradford Smith
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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Joshua Soojian
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Edmund Croteau
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Nathaniel Lord
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Richard Hoffman
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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John Occhialini
Director
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 3
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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
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2024
- Revenue
- $49,763
- Expenses
- $34,146
- Contributions
- $43,495
- Grants paid
- $10,074
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2023
- Revenue
- $41,886
- Expenses
- $23,815
- Contributions
- $37,376
- Grants paid
- $0
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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
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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
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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
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THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION
$13,000
2024 RESEARCH
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.