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NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL INC

EIN 94-2506639 SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Revenue 2024
$1,276,185
Expenses 2024
$1,502,625

Program services were 56.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A500
Classification
2000
Street
PIER 45 SUITE 4A

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

THE MISSION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHIP MEMORIAL IS TO RESTORE, PROMOTE AND OPERATE THE LIBERTY SHIP, SS JEREMIAH OBRIEN, AS A LIVING MUSEUM. THE GOAL OF THIS MISSION IS TO PRESERVE, FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS, THE STORY OF THE PATRIOTIC AND BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILT, SAILED AND DEFENDED THE 2,710 AMERICAN-BUILT WORLD WAR II SHIPS KNOWN AS LIBERTIES.

  • THE NLSM IS A FULLY FUNCTIONAL WORLD WAR II LIBERTY SHIP, THE SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN, DOCKED IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY. THE TOURS AND DISPLAYS ARE DESIGNED TO PROMOTE AND INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS OF LIBERTY SHIPS, THE MERCHANT MARINE, THE HOMEFRONT EFFORT, AND THE US MARITIME HISTORY. THE CRUISES ARE A RICH LIVING HISTORY LESSONS IN HOW THESE SHIPS WERE BUILT, SAILED, AND CONTINUE TO OPERATE. THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE SHIP'S PROGRAM IS THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUTH ABOUT WORLD WAR II, PARTICULARLY THE CIVILIAN SHIPBUILDING EFFORT, THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, D-DAY, ETC. THE NLSM OFFERS A HIGH SCHOOL INTERNSHIP AND AN ONLINE HISTORY COURSE AS WELL AS AN OVERNIGHT STAY ABOARD WITH AN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND SPECIAL TOUR IF THE SHIP. THE PURPOSE OF THE NATIONAL LIBERTY SHP MEMORIAL IS TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND PRESENT THE LIBERTY SHIP, SS JEREMIAH O'BRIEN, AS A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILT, SAILED, AND DEFENDED THE SHIPS KNOWN AS LIBERTY SHIPS. ADDITONALLY, THE CHIP CONTINUES TO SERVER HER COUNTRY EACH YEAR AS A TRAINING PLATFORM FOR SEVERAL FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL AGENCIES; INCLUDING HOMELAND SECURITY, THE US COAST GUARD, US NAVY, US ARMY, ALCOHOL FIREMARMS AND TOBACCO, AND SHERIFF AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS.

    Expenses $847,078

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Ken Wright

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $80,000
    From this org
    $80,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Ross Dykes

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jon Eaton

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Brian Goldman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Robert Jarvis

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn Korwatch

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Cevan Lesieur

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Keith Madding

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Michael O'Callaghan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Coleman Rodenberg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Thomas Bernard

    VICE-CHARIMA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • Forrest Booth

    CHAIRMAN & C

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • William Greig

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Josi Jose-Holleman

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $1,276,185
    Expenses
    $1,502,625
    Contributions
    $589,068
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,357,545
    Expenses
    $2,138,086
    Contributions
    $832,709
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,503,915
    Expenses
    $1,085,670
    Contributions
    $711,596
    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

  • 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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,148,644
    Expenses
    $798,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,028,621

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $924,985
    Expenses
    $736,259
    Assets (EOY)
    $693,285

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,154,443
    Expenses
    $1,181,696
    Assets (EOY)
    $409,907

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,315,213
    Expenses
    $1,248,689
    Assets (EOY)
    $437,160

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,727,279
    Expenses
    $2,144,814
    Assets (EOY)
    $372,513

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,531,635
    Expenses
    $1,422,405
    Assets (EOY)
    $795,583

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

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

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.