- Revenue 2024
- $2,072,081
- Expenses 2024
- $1,215,990
Program services were 88.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- C410
- Classification
- 1270
- Street
- HIGHWAY 27
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
CONNECTING MAN AND NATURE IN A WAY THAT RESPECTS BOTH MAN AND NATURE.
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THE PURPOSE OF THE FOUNDATION IS TO ENGAGE IN CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, EDUCATIONAL & ELEEMOSYNARY WORK TO PROMOTE AND OPERATE ORGANIZATIONS FOR THE PHYSICAL, MORAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS BETTERMENT OF MANKIND. ADMISSIONS INCOME IS COLLECTED BY A THIRD PARTY COMPANY THAT PURCHASED SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF THE OPERATIONS OF THE FOUNDATION IN 2022 AND REMITS A "LEASE" PAYMENT TO THE FOUNDATION BASED ON AN AGREED FORMULA RELATED TO ADMISSIONS TO THE GARDENS THAT THE FOUNDATION OWNS.
Expenses $1,079,399 · Revenue $957,099
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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BRAD PETERSON
TREASURER - BEG 9/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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CHRIS LUTZ
PRESIDENT
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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DOUGLAS RUTLEDGE
TREASURER - END 9/24
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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JANE COOPER
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KATHERINE WILSON
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1 + 1 related
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CHRIS HERSCHEND
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MASON LAMPTON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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
- $2,072,081
- Expenses
- $1,215,990
- Contributions
- $132,816
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $2,472,058
- Expenses
- $1,208,680
- Contributions
- $235,527
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $3,934,427
- Expenses
- $10,022,319
- Contributions
- $111,059
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $2,320,110
- Expenses
- $9,589,745
- Contributions
- $111,059
- 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
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2024 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2023 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2022 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $13,241,484
- Expenses
- $9,592,606
- Assets (EOY)
- $49,653,568
-
2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $17,214,373
- Expenses
- $9,592,606
- Assets (EOY)
- $56,325,456
-
2021 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,681,748
- Expenses
- $7,116,998
- Assets (EOY)
- $48,458,160
-
2020 · 990-T
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- not reported
- Assets (EOY)
- not reported
-
2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,676,232
- Expenses
- $7,798,437
- Assets (EOY)
- $49,184,952
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
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$17,000
2023 General support
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$17,000
2024 General support
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$12,000
2022 General support
Taxable family
From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.
Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return
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C Corporation · LODGING AND RESTAURANT · GA · 100% owned · share of income $56,134 · share of assets $16,307,510 · controlled entity
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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.