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MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX FOUNDATION INC

EIN 58-2074065 FAYETTEVILLE, NC

Revenue 2025
$62,776
Expenses 2025
$46,580

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A115
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 53693

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

THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX FOUNDATION, INC'S PURPOSE IT TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX AT FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA (A REGIONAL BRANCH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY). THE FOUNDATION SOLICITS AND RECEIVES GRANTS, DONATION, GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO ASSIST THE MUSEUM IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PROGRAMS. THE MUSEUM COLLECTS, PRESERVES, AND INTERPRETS THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH EXHIBITS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. THE HISTORICAL COMPLEX IS COMPOSED OF THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR, 1897 POE HOUSE, AND ARSENAL PARK. THE COMPLEX RAISES PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE PAST AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PRESENT.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX FOUNDATION, INC'S PURPOSE IS TO FOSTER AND PROMOTE THE GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX AT FAYETTEVILLE, NC (A REGIONAL BRANCH OF THE NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY). THE FOUNDATION SOLICITS AND RECEIVES GRANTS, DONATIONS, GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO ASSIST THE MUSEUM IN THE EXECUTION OF ITS PROGRAMS. THE MUSEUM COLLECTS, PRESERVES, AND INTERPRETS THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF SOUTHERN NC THROUGH EXHIBITS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. THE HISTORICAL COMPLEX IS COMPOSED OF THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR, 1897 POE HOUSE, AND ARSENAL PARK. THE MUSEUM RAISES PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE PAST AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE PRESENT.

  • WHILE THE MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX IS A STATE AGENCY, THERE ARE MANY PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT COULD NOT BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT OUTSIDE FUNDS. THE MUSEUM FOUNDATION RELIES ON GRANTS, MEMBERSHIP DUES, DONATIONS, AND FUND-RAISING EVENTS TO OFFER A WIDE ASSORTMENT OF PROGRAMS. STAFF MEMBERS WORKED DILIGENTLY IN 2017, RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS, PLANNING SPECIAL EVENTS AND HANDS-ON PROGRAMS, BRINING IN NEW EXHIBITS, REACHING OUT TO LOCAL SCHOOLS, PROMOTING THE MUSEUM COMPLEX, AND FINDING ALTERNATE FUNDING SOURCES ALL IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT THIS HISTORICAL AGENCY AND PROVE ITS VIABILITY AS A CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND SOUTHERN NC.

    Expenses $46,580

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • KELLI CARDENAS WALSH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CHARLES ANDERSON JR

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • KAREN WALLACE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DORIS SMALL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • LOU BROOKS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • JOHN CALDWELL

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MARY DENNINGS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • NANCY FIELDS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • CASSANDRA MCMILLION

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • DAVID REID

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • VICKI SMITH

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • MATTHEW WYNNE

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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
    $62,776
    Expenses
    $46,580
    Contributions
    $41,580
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $72,435
    Expenses
    $49,128
    Contributions
    $55,341
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $48,508
    Expenses
    $113,934
    Contributions
    $48,508
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $41,167
    Expenses
    $91,383
    Contributions
    $41,167
    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
    $66,245
    Expenses
    $26,874
    Assets (EOY)
    $980,351

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $43,770
    Expenses
    $23,101
    Assets (EOY)
    $940,980

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $74,558
    Expenses
    $61,710
    Assets (EOY)
    $920,311

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,594
    Expenses
    $45,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $876,538

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $32,860
    Expenses
    $183,138
    Assets (EOY)
    $889,670

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.