Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association
An association recognized by the IRS in Berryville; its own site could not be read for a description (a captcha refused every request). It publishes a Berryville street address.
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association
An association headquartered in Berryville, Clarke County. The federal exempt-organizations record makes it a 501(c)(3) since 1991 and shows Form 990 returns for thirteen fiscal years, 2012 through 2024. The corpus knows the organisation from its filings; its own website could not be read (a captcha refused every request).
The Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia1. That is what the corpus can say about the association in its own words: a Berryville address, on the organisation's own site, at the time the site was read. Beyond the address the site would not open — the corpus reads what it can read and no more.
The federal record is more legible. The IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File lists the association under EIN 54-1534037 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1991 recorded in the file1. The IRS extract does not carry a mission classification for the organization2 — the field is empty in the source, not judged missing here.
The IRS filing index locates Form 990 returns for the association for thirteen fiscal years, 2012 through 20241. That is a continuous filing record, without gaps, spanning a fair fraction of the association's existence under its current federal status. The returns themselves are on file with the Service and are the natural next target: what an association's own numbers say is a public statement of what it does.
Four claims establish the association's own address, its federal status and EIN, the absence of a mission classification in the IRS extract, and the continuous filing record 2012 through 2024. Missing: any first-hand description of what the association does, in its own words, and any historical account of its founding and early years. A single successful read of the association's site — or a request for a description in writing — would close the first gap; the older Form 990 filings would begin to close the second.
Evidence
See the source and its limits
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
What the source supports
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association, organization website
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Catalog index only. 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
See the source and its limits
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1534037 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1991 recorded in the file.
What the source supports
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
Uncertainty
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1991. 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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541534037
Relevant passageEIN 541534037 | SHENANDOAH VALLEY STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION | subsection 03 | NTEE (none) | ruling year 1991 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | 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
See the source and its limits
The IRS extract records no mission classification for Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association.
What the source supports
That the extract's mission-category field is empty for this organization.
Uncertainty
An empty category field is an absence in the register, not a statement about the organization.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541534037
Relevant passageEIN 541534037 | SHENANDOAH VALLEY STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION | subsection 03 | NTEE (none) | ruling year 1991 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | 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
See the source and its limits
Returns for Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
What the source supports
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.
Uncertainty
Returns are listed for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, 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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2 filing index, with IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard) bulk data
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541534037, fiscal years 2012-2026: 13 located, 2012 through 2024, 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
What the sources support
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
See the source and its limits
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association publishes a street address for its own premises that falls in Clarke County, Virginia.
What the source supports
That the organization states a street address for its own premises, and that this project placed that address in Clarke County, Virginia (FIPS 51043).
Uncertainty
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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association, organization website
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association
Locator: The page's stated street address for the organization's own premises
Checked: Catalog index only. 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
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1534037 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1991 recorded in the file.
See the source and its limits
Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association is listed in the IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File under EIN 54-1534037 as a 501(c)(3) organization, with a ruling year of 1991 recorded in the file.
What the source supports
The organization's legal name, EIN and subsection as the IRS records them, and the ruling year the extract carries.
Uncertainty
The IRS recognized this organization's tax-exempt status in 1991. 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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541534037
Relevant passageEIN 541534037 | SHENANDOAH VALLEY STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION | subsection 03 | NTEE (none) | ruling year 1991 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | 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 extract records no mission classification for Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association.
See the source and its limits
The IRS extract records no mission classification for Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association.
What the source supports
That the extract's mission-category field is empty for this organization.
Uncertainty
An empty category field is an absence in the register, not a statement about the organization.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Virginia extract (eo_va.csv), file as of 2026-09-07
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-07 (last update)
Locator: Row for EIN 541534037
Relevant passageEIN 541534037 | SHENANDOAH VALLEY STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION | subsection 03 | NTEE (none) | ruling year 1991 | filing requirement 01 | latest tax period 202412 | 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 Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
See the source and its limits
Returns for Shenandoah Valley Steam & Gas Engine Association are located in the filing index for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, on Form 990.
What the source supports
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.
Uncertainty
Returns are listed for 13 fiscal years, 2012 through 2024, 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.
Source
Evidence role: supports. Supports the claim at the stated source level; see limits.
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2 filing index, with IRS Form 990-N (e-Postcard) bulk data
ProPublica; Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-10 (last update)
Locator: Index records for EIN 541534037, fiscal years 2012-2026: 13 located, 2012 through 2024, 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: SHENANDOAH VALLEY STEAM & GAS ENGINE ASSOCIATION.
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