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TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION

EIN 82-2485535 ALEXANDRIA, VA

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Revenue 2024
$1,149,554
Expenses 2024
$1,832,678

Program services were 66.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A80
Classification
1280
Street
201 N UNION ST STE 110

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

20 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 110). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

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 · 2024

Mission

Our mission is to bring history to life on Alexandria's waterfront. Our Maritime Heritage Center serves as a floating museum and classroom where we educate visitors on the role Providence and Captain John Paul Jones played during the American Revolution.

Activities or mission (Part I)

We are a floating classroom; our focus is to educate while entertaining our guests on the role Providence and the Continental Navy played in the American Revolution.

  • Providence is a reproduction of the first ship authorized to serve in the Continental Navy. Our tours are interactive, educational and entertaining. Once our guests "make their mark" they are the newest recruits in the Continental Navy. Their tour guide, a fellow sailor in colonial clothes, distributes cards with job assignments (e.g., purser, master gunner, etc.) and briefs them on the ship and reminds them of the reason they are here. Guests then board Providence and meet Captain John Paul Jones. Once aboard, guests visit the quarterdeck, main deck, Captain's Cabin and the hold. Once the new recruits disembark, they enter our Naval History Theater to view a film, "Providence: Dawn of the U.S. Navy."

    Expenses $1,221,054 · Revenue $689,672

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.

  • William Scott Shaw

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Tom Church

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Kirk Casey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Valerie Ianieri

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Henry Fonville

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Patrick Burchette

    Director

    Total calculated
    $70,000
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $70,000
    Hours/week
    3

  • Walter Trip Howell IV

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Frank M Conner III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Clair S Sassin

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $161,591
    From this org
    $161,591
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $161,591
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $161,591

  • Kathleen Seifert

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $123,502
    From this org
    $123,502
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,149,554
    Expenses
    $1,832,678
    Contributions
    $459,876
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,168,729
    Expenses
    $1,650,782
    Contributions
    $935,842
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,773,820
    Expenses
    $994,669
    Contributions
    $4,680,499
    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
    $1,034,666
    Expenses
    $1,028,715
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,543,328

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $399,296
    Expenses
    $703,539
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,102,096

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $328,510
    Expenses
    $568,117
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,620,699

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $149,979
    Expenses
    $194,426
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,100,650

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $396,506
    Expenses
    $26,414
    Assets (EOY)
    $586,001

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.

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.