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NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER AT BRENAU UNIVERSITY INC

EIN 58-1443900 GAINESVILLE, GA

Revenue 2025
$552,422
Expenses 2025
$463,174

Program services were 68.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 1451

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

Mission

THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND SHARING OUR REGIONAL HISTORY AND BEING OUR COMMUNITYS PATHWAY TO HISTORY EDUCATION. THROUGH OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY EVENTS, EXHIBITS, AND HISTORIC STRUCTURES, WE STRIVE TO BE A LEADING RESOURCE FOR PROMOTING A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL HISTORY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HISTORY CENTER IS DEDICATED TO PRESERVING AND SHARING OUR REGIONAL HISTORY AND BEING OUR COMMUNITY'S PATHWAY TO HISTORY EDUCATION.

  • EXHIBIT GALLERIES: OUR MAIN EXHIBIT, THE LAND OF PROMISE, TELLS STORIES OF THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED IN NORTHEAST GEORGIA AND SERVES AS A REMINDER THAT OUR REGION IS A LAND OF PROMISE FOR EVERYONE. WE ADDITIONALLY HAVE THE MATHIS FOLK ART GALLERY AND OUR CHANGING EXHIBIT SPACE. ONLY ABOUT 20% OF THE HISTORY CENTER'S COLLECTION OF HISTORIC ARTIFACTS IS ON DISPLAY AT ANY ONE TIME; THE REMAINDER REMAINS IN THE ARCHIVES WHERE THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF OUR SHARED PAST IS CARED FOR AND MAINTAINED IN A PROFESSIONAL, ENVIRONMENTALLY CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT. ACCESS TO THE ARCHIVES IS BY APPOINTMENT. THE 18TH-CENTURY CABIN OF CHEROKEE INDIAN WHITE PATH WAS ORIGINALLY CONSTRUCTED C. 1780. THE CABIN WAS SAVED AND RESTORED BY DON COOLEY, A DESCENDANT OF WHITE PATH, AND MOVED TO THE PRESENT SITE BY JAMES MATHIS. WE ALSO ARE HOME TO THE HERRIN BLACKSMITH SHOP. THE AMERICAN FREEDOM GARDEN, WHERE WE PAY TRIBUTE TO AMERICA'S SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN IS ALSO LOCATED ON OUR GROUNDS. IN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS, THE HISTORY CENTER: - OPENED TWO NEW EXHIBITS - WELCOMED 2,000+ VISITORS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE.

    Expenses $133,951 · Revenue $31,244

  • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND OUTREACH: THE ADA MAE IVESTER EDUCATION CENTER AND THE COTTRELL DIGITAL STUDIO PROVIDE THE CORE OF OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING. IN THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS THE HISTORY CENTER: - WELCOMED 3000+ CHILDREN ON FIELD TRIPS, FOR HOMESCHOOL DAYS, AND COMMUNITY EVENTS - PARTNERED WITH OTHER AREA ORGANIZATIONS TO OFFER COMMUNITY EVENTS AND PROGRAMS. - HELD MONTHLY LECTURES ON NOTABLE TOPICS BY AREA HISTORIANS AND PROFESSORS. - TOOK HISTORY LEARNING OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AT REGIONAL FESTIVALS.

    Expenses $127,092 · Revenue $9,012

  • GAINESVILLE READS: THE HISTORY CENTER OFFERS AN AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM TO PROVIDE EXTRA HELP IN LITERACY TO ELEMENTARY-AGE STUDENTS WHO NEED IT. USING ONE-ON-ONE VOLUNTEERS WITH THE STUDENTS AND THE LEXIA READING APPLICATION, PARTICIPANTS MEET ONCE A WEEK TO PRACTICE AND IMPROVE THEIR READING AND COMPREHENSION SKILLS.

    Expenses $53,709

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • MARY HEMMER

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $43,525
    From this org
    $43,525
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • PETER GORDON

    FORMER EXEC.

    Total calculated
    $36,686
    From this org
    $36,686
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • DR ANDREA BIRCH

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DR JULI CLAY

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CONNIE DIXON

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHUCK DUBOSE

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEX EDINGTON

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • WILSON GOLDEN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NEAL HUGHES

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • DR MARSHA HOPKINS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR NATASHA ISZARD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHY OATES

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BARCLAY RUSHTON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • BECKIE SMITH

    PAST CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • DR JIM SOUTHERLAND

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DR ANN TUCKER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERYL VANDIVER

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

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
    $552,422
    Expenses
    $463,174
    Contributions
    $352,514
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $237,797
    Expenses
    $392,399
    Contributions
    $78,359
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $251,563
    Expenses
    $465,124
    Contributions
    $137,803
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $478,501
    Expenses
    $445,912
    Contributions
    $405,636
    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
    $296,789
    Expenses
    $372,411
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,078,320

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $837,344
    Expenses
    $321,473
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,100,395

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $526,856
    Expenses
    $352,646
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,487,698

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $302,181
    Expenses
    $272,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,238,178

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $289,475
    Expenses
    $274,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,265,167

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $269,390
    Expenses
    $275,137
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,219,396

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $647,938
    Expenses
    $237,110
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,243,770

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $221,905
    Expenses
    $231,805
    Assets (EOY)
    $847,759

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

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.