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NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC

EIN 72-1200790 NEW ORLEANS, LA

Revenue 2023
$100,185,677
Expenses 2023
$82,747,402

Program services were 82.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A540
Classification
2000
Street
945 MAGAZINE ST

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).

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • STEPHEN J WATSON

    PRESIDENT & CEO

    Total calculated
    $827,413
    From this org
    $725,090
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $102,323
    Hours/week
    50 + 1.2 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $563,859
    Bonus
    $130,778
    Other
    $30,453
    Deferred
    $84,150
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,173
    Filer's total
    $827,413
  • TED M WEGGELAND

    CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8 + 0.7 related
  • SUZANNE T MESTAYER

    CHAIR-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 0.7 related
  • JAMES E MAURIN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 1.2 related
  • SONIA A PEREZ

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • JOHN D GEORGES

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 0.5 related
  • JOHN M HAIRSTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4 + 0.7 related
  • ST DENIS SANDY VILLERE II

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JANE OLSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • FLEUR HARLAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • DEANNA RODRIGUEZ

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • LAURA STEPHENS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JEFFERY D HILDEBRAND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JAMES N GIANOPULOS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • J TYLER HERBERT

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JESSIE J KNIGHT JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • GREGORY KOWALSKI

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PETE WILSON

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • WILLIAM M OSBORNE III

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • SHARON ESTILL TAYLOR PHD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • W GRAY STREAM

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • PHILIP G SATRE

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • CAREN RUBIN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • JAMES J REISS JR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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 — 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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $100,185,677
    Expenses
    $82,747,402
    Contributions
    $47,382,702
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $81,821,172
    Expenses
    $66,591,642
    Contributions
    $49,448,772
    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

  • 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

Nonprofiteer parses the Form 990 only. 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 2023 return

  • WORLD WAR II THEATRE INC

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, AND SOCIAL PURPOSES OF NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM · LA · controlled entity

  • WORLD WAR II PAVILIONS INC

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, AND SOCIAL PURPOSES OF NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM · LA · controlled entity

  • WORLD WAR II CAMPAIGNS INC

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, AND SOCIAL PURPOSES OF NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM · LA · controlled entity

  • WAREHOUSE DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT INC

    501(C)(3) · SERVING THE LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES THAT INCLUDE THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM · LA · controlled entity

  • CHALK #17 INC

    501(C)(3) · SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL, CHARITABLE, AND SOCIAL PURPOSES OF NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM · LA · controlled entity

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 10 September 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.