PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

U310

Classification

1000

Street

1 PARI DR

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

• PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (PARI) IS ESTABLISHED TO PROMOTE THE TEACHING OF ASTRONOMY AND PROVIDE AN ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY AND STUDY SITE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BY COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE, AND HIGH SCHOOLS, AND FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE SCIENCES TO SUPPORT THESE ACTIVITIES. IN ADDITION, RELATIONSHIPS ARE DEVELOPED WITH UNIVERSITIES, BOTH LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY, SUCH AS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - ASHEVILLE, AND OTHERS. IN ADDITION, THE ORGANIZATION HAS IMPLEMENTED A VARIETY OF SPACE CAMP OPTIONS, WHICH INCLUDE ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE, AND ROBOTICS PROVIDING AN ARRAY OF LEARNING EXPERIENCES, FROM ASTRONOMY, PHYSICS, AND ASTROBIOLOGY, WITH THE SAME EQUIPMENT USED BY NASA, TO SIMULATE SPACE MISSIONS THAT TEACH LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK, AND STEM PRINCIPLES. OTHER CAMP OFFERINGS INCLUDE EXPERIENCE IN ROBOTICS, SENSORS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, CRYPTOGRAPHY AND SECRET MESSAGING, COMPUTATIONAL THINKING, AND 3D DESIGN AND PRINTING.

  Expenses $955,396 · Revenue $239,404

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $727,738

  Expenses

  $1,212,025

  Contributions

  $273,214

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,124,860

  Expenses

  $1,468,490

  Contributions

  $721,165

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,344,356

  Expenses

  $1,668,411

  Contributions

  $956,653

  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

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,219,379

  Expenses

  $1,689,479

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,411,020

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,157,854

  Expenses

  $1,620,321

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,779,958

• 2020 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,647,179

  Expenses

  $1,848,922

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,188,493

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,107,862

  Expenses

  $2,068,751

  Assets (EOY)

  $19,312,539

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,105,430

  Expenses

  $2,098,767

  Assets (EOY)

  $18,484,916

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

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $50,000

  2024 · IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

• HUMAN SERVICE ALLIANCE

  $30,000

  2024 · General Support

• LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES

  $18,000

  2025 · SUPPORT

• AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC

  $14,500

  2023 · Councilor in Training Program

• LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES

  $10,000

  2024 · Support

• LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES

  $7,500

  2022 · Support

• LAKE TOXAWAY CHARITIES

  $7,000

  2023 · Support

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