American Battlefield Trust

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Jun 27, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$25,316,938

Major Activities

Activity 2

Membership:the civil war preservation trust is a membership-based organization with more than 51,000 active members. Each quarter, every member receives our 48-page magazine, "hallowed ground", as free educational membership benefit. The magazine highlights how their direct support helps preserve endangered civil war battlefield land, advances the cause of education about this key period in our nation's history, and educates them directly on historical elements of importance about the civil war and land preservation. The trust depends upon its members to help fulfill its battlefield preservation and education missions every year through their dues payments, as well as additional charitable gifts. The trust also has a major donor society, as a subset of its overall membership, called "the color bearers," comprised of those members who make dues payments of $1,000 or more annually. Total membership in this group was approximately 980 individuals at the end of 2012. At the end of 2012, the trust also enjoyed the support of nearly 140,000 facebook fans, opening up a new pool of potential future donors and supporters.

Activity 3

Education:in 2012, the education department hosted its 11th annual teacher institute in charleston, south carolina. More than 150 teachers from across the country participated in this 3-day professional development experience, offered free of charge. The department also held smaller, regional teacher institutes lasting 1 1/2 days each in los angeles, california and chicago, illinois, with between 40 and 50 teachers in attendance at each. The education department created a civil war haversack program to house the new civil war curriculum for elementary, middle and high school teachers along with other physical and digital teaching assets. Our travelling trunk program made available four trunks of civil war teaching tools and activities that traveled the country throughout the school year. Department staff also released the book "the civil war kids 150," which encourages 8-12 year-olds to visit and do particular things in association with and on civil war battlefields during the on-going 150th commemoration of the civil war.

Filer

EIN

54-1426643