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SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS OF DELAWARE

EIN 51-0327418 WILMINGTON, DE

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Revenue 2024
$43,155
Expenses 2024
$37,980

Program services were 87.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A80
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 4277

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

Mission

THE SOCIETY IS ORGANIZED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERPETUATING THE MEMORY OF COLONIAL EVENTS AND OF THE BRAVE AND WORTHY MEN WHO IN MILITARY, NAVAL, AND CIVIL POSITIONS OF HIGH TRUST AND RESPONSIBILITY, BY THEIR ACTS OR COUNSEL, ASSISTED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT, DEFENSE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE AMERICAN COLONIES AND IN THE FOUNDING OF THIS NATION; OF COLLECTING AND PRESERVING COLONIAL RELICS, RECORDS, MANUSCRIPTS, ROLLS OR OTHER DOCUMENTS; OF PROVIDING SUITABLE COMMEMORATIONS OR MEMORIALS RELATING TO THE AMERICAN COLONIAL PERIOD AND OF INSPIRING IN ITS MEMBERS THE FRATERNAL AND PATRIOTIC SPIRIT OF THEIR FOREFATHERS, AND IN THE COMMUNITY RESPECT AND REVERENCE FOR THOSE WHOSE PUBLIC SERVICES MADE OUR FREEDOM AND UNITY POSSIBLE, BY SUCH MEANS AS MAY BE NEEDFUL AND PROPER FOR SUCH PURPOSES

Activities or mission (Part I)

PRESERVING THE HISTORY OF THE COLONIAL WARS IN DELAWARE

  • HOSTED ANNUAL MEETINGS AND EVENTS FOR LOCAL MEMBERS.

    Expenses $33,344 · Revenue $10,420

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.

  • Samuel Augustus Nolen

    GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Dan Lindley

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Richard Henry Lee Laird Jr

    IMMEDIATE PAST GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Robert Wyckoff Brokaw III

    DEPUTY GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Philip Syng Reese

    LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • Randolph Barton Jr

    PAST GOVERNOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0
  • David MacMillan Hoopes

    DEPUTY GOVERNOR GENERAL

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $43,155
    Expenses
    $37,980
    Contributions
    $27,422
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $291,535
    Expenses
    $260,243
    Contributions
    $45,778
    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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2021

Tax period
1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021
Principal officer
Barton Reese
Mailing address
PO BOX 4277WILMINGTON DE 19807
Website
Something was entered that is not a web address, so it is not shown.

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

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 August 2020, reinstated 15 June 2021.
  • Exemption revoked 15 August 2015, reinstated 15 August 2015.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.