Eastern National
“Promote the public’s understanding and support of America’s national parks and other public trusts.”
2 funders on the record, 82 cents of every dollar to the work.
The work
What they do
Cooperating association serving over 150 national park sites primarily in the eastern US. Operates bookstores and funds educational programs.
Where the money went, FY2024
The work, and what it cost
The program, as they filed it
$26.3M, 82% of spendingEastern National is a not-for-profit educational service institution recognized pursuant to an act of Congress to aid and promote the interpretive, historical, scientific, research and conservation activities of the…
Including $3,508,141 granted onward, all of it to National Park Service.
Read it as they filed it
EASTERN NATIONAL IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT EDUCATIONAL SERVICE INSTITUTION RECOGNIZED PURSUANT TO AN ACT OF CONGRESS TO AID AND PROMOTE THE INTERPRETIVE, HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC, RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION ACTIVITIES OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (NPS) AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. EASTERN NATIONAL ALSO DEVELOPS PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER INTERPRETIVE MATERIALS RELEVANT TO THE PARKS AND THEIR THEMES. EASTERN NATIONAL OPERATES RETAIL OUTLETS AT NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND OTHER PUBLIC AGENCIES THAT OFFER EDUCATIONAL AND INTERPRETIVE PRODUCTS TO THE VISITORS OF THE PARKS. APPROXIMATELY 95% OF THE NET INCOME FROM THIS ACTIVITY IS SET ASIDE TO BE DONATED BACK TO THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OR OTHER AGENCY IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS TO SUPPORT THE PARKS AND ASSIST WITH THEIR INTERPRETIVE AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES.
IRS Form 990 Part III for fiscal year 2024, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
82 cents of every dollar goes to the work
A good sign, not a scorecard: what matters is the extremes, and this is nowhere near one.
$26,285,177 programs, $5,310,801 management, $356,124 fundraising. Form 990, FY2024.
The backers
Backed, each with its source, by National Park Foundation and Pfizer Foundation, latest filing FY25.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at Eastern National? Claim this page.
Those 10 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If Eastern National is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe filings
14 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $16,080,398 |
| 2012 | $17,812,459 |
| 2013 | $16,382,898 |
| 2014 | $18,010,776 |
| 2015 | $19,863,323 |
| 2016 | $23,400,804 |
| 2017 | $23,836,030 |
| 2018 | $24,084,960 |
| 2019 | $26,569,969 |
| 2020 | $9,701,062 |
| 2021 | $21,727,847 |
| 2022 | $29,840,460 |
| 2023 | $34,677,762 |
| 2024 | $32,154,337 |
From $16.1M in 2011 to $32.2M in FY24, with no missed filing in 14 years.
The returns as e-filed with the IRS, 3 years:
- FY2024Download the return
- FY2023Download the return
- FY2022Download the return
Source: IRS Form 990 e-file data, each return by its IRS object id, served by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. A year in the chart without a link here is read from a later return’s own history table; its return is on ProPublica’s page for the group.
On the Hill
Eastern National has hired federal lobbyists: 5 filings from 2019 to 2020. The filings at the Senate.
Most filed on natural resources.
Their ground
Eastern National is not on our editors’ record for a threatened place yet. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
Eastern National files 2 related organizations on its return: The National Park Service Employee and Alumni Trust Fund (501(c)(3)) and Employee & Alumni Association of the National Park Service (501(c)(4)). A related organization shares people or purpose; it does not share the books.
Ways in
How to help
Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.
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