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THE COLUMNS TIPPAH COUNTY INTERPRETIVE CENTER

EIN 02-0626985 RIPLEY, MS

Revenue 2025
$31,329
Expenses 2025
$33,092

Program services were 94.5% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A54
Classification
1000
Street
106 N SIDDALL ST

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

Primary exempt purpose

TO PROVIDE A MUSEUM TO PRESERVE AND INTERPRET THE HISTORY OF TIPPAH COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI FROM ITS BEGINNING IN 1836 TO AFTER WORLD WAR II FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

  • PROVIDED MUSEUM TO PRESERVE AND INTERPRET THE HISTORY OF TIPPAH COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.

    Expenses $31,258

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.

  • Brent Grisham

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Eric Melton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Penny Dollar

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Gilroy Bails

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Melinda Marsalis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Trey Hankins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Chris Lewellen

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    0
  • Angela Christmas

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    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
    $31,329
    Expenses
    $33,092
    Contributions
    $31,230
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $65,647
    Expenses
    $28,476
    Contributions
    $64,973
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $61,282
    Expenses
    $32,164
    Contributions
    $60,507
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $33,845
    Expenses
    $33,333
    Contributions
    $29,169
    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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $29,560
    Expenses
    $35,179
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,866
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $30,079
    Expenses
    $31,861
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,963
  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $34,710
    Expenses
    $38,065
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,067
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $25,262
    Expenses
    $29,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,422
  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $25,262
    Expenses
    $29,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,422
  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $30,246
    Expenses
    $30,559
    Assets (EOY)
    $29,806
  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $29,998
    Expenses
    $30,630
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,119
  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $35,979
    Expenses
    $29,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,409
  • 2014 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $28,183
    Expenses
    $29,782
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,806
  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $26,711
    Expenses
    $31,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,071

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

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