- Revenue 2025
- $258,901
- Expenses 2025
- $254,862
Program services were 87.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- A23
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 111
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
TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE CULTURAL HERITAGE, THE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, AND THE RELIGIOUS DEVOTION OF THE WALDENSES. THIS INCLUDES SOLICITATION OF FUNDS THROUGH DONATIONS/GRANTS AND THE UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES FOR THE GROWTH, SUSTAINMENT, MAINTENANCE, AND OPERATIONS OF THE MUSEUM INCLUDING EDUCATIONAL ENHANCEMENT. THE MUSEUM PROVIDES DISPLAYS, ARTIFACTS AND PROGRAMS THAT PORTRAY WALDENSIAN LIFE, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND WITNESSING, WHICH BEGAN IN THE WALDENSIAN VALLEYS SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS PRIOR TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. ITS PRESENCE IS A TESTAMENT TO THE WALDENSES' STRONG LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE WORLD AND THEIR COLONIZATION IN VALDESE. THE MISSION IS AIMED AT THOSE WITHIN AND BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF OUR LOCAL AND REGIONAL COMMUNITIES AND INCLUDES THOSE OF WALDENSIAN HERITAGE BY BIRTH, AND JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, BY FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST.
Activities or mission (Part I)
TO PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE CULTURAL HERITAGE, THE GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, AND THE RELIGIOUS DEVOTION OF THE WALDENSES WHO IMMIGRATED FROM COTTIAN ALPS OF NORTHWESTERN ITALY AND SETTLED IN VALDESE, NORTH CAROLINA, STARTING IN MAY 1893, AS WELL AS TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT PART OF HISTORY.
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THE CORPORATION OWNS AND OPERATES A MUSEUM THAT PROVIDES DISPLAYS, ARTIFACTS AND PROGRAMS THAT PORTRAY WALDENSIAN LIFE, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND WITNESSING, WHICH BEGAN IN THE WALDENSIAN VALLEYS SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS PRIOR TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. ITS PRESENCE IS A TESTAMENT TO THE WALDENSES' STRONG LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE WORLD AND THEIR COLONIZATION IN VALDESE, NORTH CAROLINA.
Expenses $171,152 · Grants $51,376 · Revenue $4,582
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THE CORPORATION SPONSORED A TRIP TO THE WALDENSIAN HOMELAND IN ITALY. AGROUP OF 34, MOST OF WALDENSIAN LINEAGE, TOURED HISTORICAL SITES ANDMUSEUMS, VISITED TOWNS AND CEMETERIES OF THEIR ANCESTORS, ATE AUTHENTICCUISINE, STAYED IN ACCOMODATIONS OWNED BY THE WALDENSIAN CHURCH LOCATEDIN TORRE PELLICE (THE SISTER CITY OF VALDESE, NC), ATTENDED A SERVICE IN A WALDENSIAN CHURCH, LEARNED HISTORICAL INFORMATION, AND DID GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH.THE CORPORATION ARRANGED AND PAID FOR TRANSPORTION, LODGING,ADMISSIONS, AND MOST OF THE MEALS. THE TRAVELERS REIMBURSED THECORPORATION THE ESTIMATED COST OF THE TRIP PLUS AN AMOUNT TO OFFSETEXCHANGE RATES, UNEXPECTED, AND INDIRECT COSTS.
Expenses $51,382 · Revenue $67,450
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.
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Robert MurrayROBERT MURRAY
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Page AndersenPAGE ANDERSEN
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Pam PonsPAM PONS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Morrissa AngiMORRISSA ANGI
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve DemiterSTEVE DEMITER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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David FletcherDAVID FLETCHER
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Steve MartinantSTEVE MARTINANT
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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John BounousJOHN BOUNOUS
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Mark RostanMARK ROSTAN
VICE-CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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John HelimanJOHN HELIMAN
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Melinda ZimmermanMELINDA ZIMMERMAN
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Debbie GarrouDEBBIE GARROU
BOARD MEMBER
- 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
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2025
- Revenue
- $258,901
- Expenses
- $254,862
- Contributions
- $183,444
- Grants paid
- $51,376
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2024
- Revenue
- $123,922
- Expenses
- $115,585
- Contributions
- $117,568
- Grants paid
- $1,481
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2023
- Revenue
- $242,004
- Expenses
- $163,300
- Contributions
- $156,935
- Grants paid
- $0
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,918,045
- Expenses
- $9,507
- Contributions
- $1,918,045
- 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.
Grants made
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2025 TO ESTABLISH A LIMITED AGENCY ENDOWMENT
Grants received
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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY
$110,883
2025 ART, CULTURE AND HUMANITIES
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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY
$109,397
2024 EDUCATION
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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.