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MUSEUM AT BETHEL WOODS

EIN 26-2778926 LIBERTY, NY

Revenue 2024
$1,387,239
Expenses 2024
$1,324,155

Program services were 68.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A50
Classification
2100
Street
PO BOX 222

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 purpose of the Museum is to maintain a history and music museum providing a multi-media experience related to the significances of the 1960's and Woodstock. As an educational resource, the Museum highlights the social, political, cultural and musical transformation of the period. The Museum promotes the key ideals of the era (peace, respect, cooperation, and a connection between the planet and its people) by its involvement within the local community, encouragement of social responsibility, and advocation for a better Sullivan County and the rest of the world.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The Museum's mission is to preserve the history of the 1960's and Woodstock, as an educational resource of their significance in a decade of radical cultural transformation. The Museum embodies the ideals of the era by promoting peace, respect, cooperation and a connection between the planet and its people.

  • See Schedule OThe Museum is an immersive and captivating multi-media experience that combines film and interactive displays, text panels, and artifacts to tell the story of the 1960's and Woodstock. It explores the unique experience of the Woodstock festival, its significance as a culminating event of a decade of radical cultural transformation, and the legacy of the Sixties and Woodstock today. The Museum serves as an educational resource for the exploration of the unique American experience of the decade of the 1960s. The main gallery exhibit highlights the social, political, cultural and musical transformations of that period as well as its legacy today.The Museum embodies the key ideals of the era it interprets: peace, respect, cooperation, and a connection to the planet and the people who inhabit it.In addition to preserving and interpreting an era, the Museum is actively involved in our community: Through education, economic development, and historical preservation; By encouraging social responsibility among our visitors and supporters; By advocating for issues that make Sullivan County, and the world at large, a better place.

    Expenses $906,585 · Revenue $670,593

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.

  • Michael Fisher

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Neal Hitch

    Museum Director/Trustee

    Total calculated
    $154,885
    From this org
    $120,330
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,555
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,237
    Bonus
    $7,500
    Other
    $593
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $34,555
    Filer's total
    $154,885

  • James Smith

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keith Suehnholz

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Eric Frances

    CEO/CFO/Trustee

    Total calculated
    $478,473
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $443,009
    Other
    $35,464
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $302,724 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $140,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $285 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $17,250 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $18,214 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $478,473 related

  • Denise Frangipane

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robyn Gerry

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rona Elliot

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Paul Christman

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $182,869
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $148,941
    Other
    $33,928
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $143,153 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $5,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $788 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $7,780 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,148 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $182,869 related

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
    $1,387,239
    Expenses
    $1,324,155
    Contributions
    $560,440
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,209,622
    Expenses
    $1,204,445
    Contributions
    $436,038
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,045,078
    Expenses
    $1,094,795
    Contributions
    $225,403
    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
    $949,218
    Expenses
    $1,063,836
    Assets (EOY)
    $640,875

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $724,144
    Expenses
    $779,291
    Assets (EOY)
    $760,210

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,171,339
    Expenses
    $1,153,457
    Assets (EOY)
    $776,646

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $940,989
    Expenses
    $947,758
    Assets (EOY)
    $761,782

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,176,666
    Expenses
    $906,569
    Assets (EOY)
    $776,948

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,002,338
    Expenses
    $850,618
    Assets (EOY)
    $491,314

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,261,778
    Expenses
    $817,927
    Assets (EOY)
    $334,855

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $527,512
    Expenses
    $931,911
    Assets (EOY)
    $366,640

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $878,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $476,134

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.