- Revenue 2024
- $157,780
- Expenses 2024
- $43,606
Program services were 68.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A80
- Classification
- 1200
- Street
- PO BOX 1629
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 mission is to provide monetary support for the activities of the ETHS, whose mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the history of Tennessee, with emphasis on East Tennessee. The East Tennessee Historical Society Foundation (ETHSF) board decided to temporarily suspend its mission of providing funds to ETHS. It elected to retain funds in the foundation as a means of growing the endowment until the endowment reaches a level better able to support ETHS activities.
Activities or mission (Part I)
To support the East Tennessee Historical Society, Inc., (ETHS) and to engage in any other activity permitted for public benefit corporations related to such purpose. Organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes.
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The ETHSF board of directors authorized salary supplements for two ETHS, Inc. senior level staff to enable ETHS to employ and retain high quality persons and still balance its budget. The supplements are temporary and ETHSF still intends to retain the majority of its funds as a means of growing the endowment.
Expenses $30,000 · Grants $30,000
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None.
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None.
As filed on the 2024 return.
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.
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A Warren Dockter
President/CEO
- Total calculated
- $128,361
- From this org
- $0
- From related orgs
- $115,000
- Other
- $13,361
- Hours/week
- 1 + 40 related
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Jeff Chapman
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Jacob Harper
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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John Thurman
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 related
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Susan Richardson Williams
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 related
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David Reynolds
Treasurer
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 related
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Sam Albritton
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 related
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Trey Bellar
Board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0
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Ben Mullins
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 related
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Joe E Thompson
Chairman
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0 + 1 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $157,780
- Expenses
- $43,606
- Contributions
- $150
- Grants paid
- $30,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $369,729
- Expenses
- $44,947
- Contributions
- $1,475
- Grants paid
- $30,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $70,318
- Expenses
- $54,334
- Contributions
- $12,348
- Grants paid
- $28,750
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $767,925
- Expenses
- $51,384
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,935,647
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $444,442
- Expenses
- $13,368
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,885,982
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.
Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2008
- Tax period
- 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2008
- Principal officer
- Jim R Shelby
- Mailing address
- PO Box 1629Knoxville TN 379011629
As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 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
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2024 Salary support
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2023 Salary support
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2022
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.
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
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East Tennessee Historical Society Inc
501(c)(3) · Preserve TN history · TN
Declared as related by
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EAST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
On its 2024 return
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 SO.
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.