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An independent public charity that raises private support for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools. It publishes a Berryville street address.
An independent public charity that raises private support for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools.
The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File records the Clarke County Education Foundation as a 501(c)(3) organization with EIN 54‑1606545 and a ruling year of 19731. The IRS classifies it under Education2 — a mission classification that, for once, actually names what the organization does. The Foundation publishes a Berryville street address that falls in Clarke County3, and describes its own work as 'an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities' available to students in the Clarke County Public Schools4.
The paper trail supports institutional stability rather than a paper foundation. Returns are located in the IRS filing index for 14 consecutive fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 9901. That is a longer sustained-filing history than most Clarke County nonprofits currently in the corpus — and it starts from a 1973 ruling year, making the Foundation older than every other 501(c)(3) currently in this collection except the Clarke County Historical Association (1963).
Five claims that establish a fifty-two-year-old public charity operating in support of the county's schools. What the Foundation has funded, and what the local schools have been able to do because of it, are questions the Foundation's own annual reports and Winchester Star or Clarke Courier coverage would answer — not yet in the corpus.
Clarke County Education Foundation is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1606545 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1973 recorded in the file.
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1973. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and it is not necessarily the founding year: an organization can be recognized long after it began, and nothing here establishes when it was founded. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541606545
Relevant passageEIN 541606545 | CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | subsection 03 | NTEE B28Z | ruling year 1973 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202506 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
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AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The IRS classifies Clarke County Education Foundation under Education.
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541606545
Relevant passageEIN 541606545 | CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | subsection 03 | NTEE B28Z | ruling year 1973 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202506 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
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AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County Education Foundation publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clarke County Education Foundation
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County Education Foundation describes its work as: The Clarke County Education Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools, by generating private support and involvement.
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clarke County Education Foundation
Locator: Home page, the foundation's statement of purpose
Relevant passageThe Clarke County Education Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools, by generating private support and involvement.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Returns for Clarke County Education Foundation are located in the filing index for 14 fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 990.
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Returns are listed for 14 fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 990. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541606545, fiscal years 2012-2026: 14 located, 2012 through 2025, on 990. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County Education Foundation describes its work as: The Clarke County Education Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools, by generating private support and involvement.
Clarke County Education Foundation describes its work as: The Clarke County Education Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools, by generating private support and involvement.
What the organization says it does, quoted from its own site on 2026-09-11.
Self-published and unverified. This is the organization's account of its own work; nothing here checks it against a program record, a filing or an independent report.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clarke County Education Foundation
Locator: Home page, the foundation's statement of purpose
Relevant passageThe Clarke County Education Foundation is an independent public charity dedicated to promoting, expanding, and augmenting the educational opportunities for students and staff in the Clarke County Public Schools, by generating private support and involvement.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County Education Foundation publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
Clarke County Education Foundation publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
The address is the organization's own statement; no deed, lease or county record was inspected. Placing it in Clarke County is this project's determination, from a US Census Bureau geocoder address match confirmed by an FCC Area API county lookup of the coordinates that geocoder returned. That second step checks the county for those coordinates; it is not an independent geocode of the address, so it cannot catch an address the Census geocoder placed at the wrong point. The street address itself is not published here, and where the organization's work reaches was not measured.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Clarke County Education Foundation
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: self_published_by_the_subject. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County Education Foundation is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1606545 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1973 recorded in the file.
Clarke County Education Foundation is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1606545 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1973 recorded in the file.
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1973. That is the year of the determination as carried in this extract, and it is not necessarily the founding year: an organization can be recognized long after it began, and nothing here establishes when it was founded. Listing is not evidence that the organization is operating now, and this record establishes nothing about its conduct or its finances.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541606545
Relevant passageEIN 541606545 | CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | subsection 03 | NTEE B28Z | ruling year 1973 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202506 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
The IRS classifies Clarke County Education Foundation under Education.
The IRS classifies Clarke County Education Foundation under Education.
The mission category the IRS assigns this organization. The category is the IRS's own classification code for the organization, not the organization's description of what it does.
A broad category is not a description of programs.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541606545
Relevant passageEIN 541606545 | CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | subsection 03 | NTEE B28Z | ruling year 1973 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202506 | locality Berryville, VA 22611
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_exempt_organizations_data. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Returns for Clarke County Education Foundation are located in the filing index for 14 fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 990.
Returns for Clarke County Education Foundation are located in the filing index for 14 fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 990.
Which fiscal years of return the index returns for this EIN, and on which forms. The segment lists each year with its form, fiscal period and return identifier, so the coverage can be checked record by record.
Returns are listed for 14 fiscal years, 2012 through 2025, on Form 990. A listed return is one that can be located in the filing index, not one that has been read: no document was retrieved, no amount from any return is reported in this note, and a directory entry is not an audit. Years missing from that count are years these sources did not return, which is not evidence that nothing was filed; no source used here reports a prior-year 990-N.
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541606545, fiscal years 2012-2026: 14 located, 2012 through 2025, on 990. Per-year detail, with the return identifier for each, is in research/transparentclarke-inventory/filing-coverage.jsonl
Checked: Catalog index only. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs_filing_index_via_aggregator. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Also indexed as: CLARKE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC; Clarke County Education Foundation Inc.
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