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EAST TENNESSEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

EIN 32-0320825 KNOXVILLE, TN

Revenue 2024
$1,172,049
Expenses 2024
$1,333,587

Program services were 66.2% 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

To preserve, interpret and promote the history of Tennessee, with focus on East Tennessee, in order to educate and connect the region, its people, history, culture and heritage.

  • EducationETHS provides educational programs for the general public (lectures, workshops, family days, genealogical workshops, and special events), student programs (at the museum and in classrooms), and teacher programs (variety of professional development offerings with associated materials and resources).

    Expenses $532,757

  • Artifacts and ExhibitionsThe collection of the East Tennessee Historical Society consists of more than 16,000 artifacts and provides a foundation for fulfilling ETHSs mission to preserve, interpret, and promote the history of East Tennessees 35 counties.

    Expenses $273,155

  • PublicationsETHS develops, prints, and distributes Tennessee Ancestors semiannually (document transcriptions, historical and genealogical articles), the Journal of East Tennessee History annually (scholarly magazine), and Newsline semiannually (information on ETHS and other regional organizations).

    Expenses $76,704

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.

  • A Warren Dockter PhD

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $112,600
    From this org
    $112,600
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Sam Albritton

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Hubert Smith

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rob Barger

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maury Nicely

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David W Mink

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Reynolds

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe E Thompson III

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charles E Atchley Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Steve Cotham

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jane Creed

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Erin Burns Freeman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jacob Harper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Natalie Haslam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Anthony Hodges

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marvin House

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Todd Kelly Jr

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Imogene King

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Samantha Edwards Lacy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sherri P Lee

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Marquis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew McClellan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Carrington Montague

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Benjamin C Mullins

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • D Ray Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $1,172,049
    Expenses
    $1,333,587
    Contributions
    $938,607
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,509,951
    Expenses
    $1,724,069
    Contributions
    $1,302,181
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,177,081
    Expenses
    $1,347,499
    Contributions
    $989,341
    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
    $1,089,518
    Expenses
    $1,014,149
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,863,372

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $780,075
    Expenses
    $957,606
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,699,780

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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.