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FIESTA TABLEWARE COMPANY COLLECTORS ORGANIZATION

EIN 87-2166785 HOUSTON, TX

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Revenue 2025
$314,255
Expenses 2025
$266,729

Program services were 70.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A99
Classification
1200
Street
5223 BAYOU GLEN RD

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

TO EDUCATE INDIVIDUALS ABOUT ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING AMERICAN-MADE DINNERWARE COMPANIES LEFT IN THE UNITED STATES.

  • PROVIDING MEMBERS WITH EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES TO LEARN ABOUT HOMER LAUGHLIN/FIESTA TABLEWARE COMPANY HISTORY AND DINNERWARE LINES INCLUDING THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE PUBLICATION "FLIPPING DISHES." ADDITIONALLY, THE ORGANIZATION SUPPORTS ITS MISSION THROUGH THE SALE OF POTTERY AND PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND EVENTS WHERE IT SHOWCASES AND SELLS POTTERY, FURTHER ENGAGING WITH COLLECTORS AND ENTHUSIASTS WHILE EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH.

    Expenses $188,963 · Grants $35,130 · Revenue $312,382

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.

  • Tamara Heffernan

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • David Schaefer

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Merrill Miller

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Vicki Lindberg

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Melissa Schlegelmann

    SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    25

  • Susan Tobier

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Saarin Schwartz

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sarah Lowery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Harold Cook

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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
    $314,255
    Expenses
    $266,729
    Contributions
    $28,410
    Grants paid
    $35,130
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $343,507
    Expenses
    $256,194
    Contributions
    $26,388
    Grants paid
    $34,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $114,881
    Expenses
    $49,378
    Contributions
    $23,748
    Grants paid
    $5,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $64,386
    Expenses
    $46,797
    Contributions
    $10,913
    Grants paid
    not reported

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Merrill Miller
Mailing address
5223 BAYOU GLEN ROADHOUSTON TX 77056

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.