Oakland Cemetery Lot Owners Assn Inc
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Maintain and operate a historic cemetery.
- Income
- $105,805
- Spending
- $113,290
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (1)
- Volunteers and paid lawn care crews cleaned out dead trees, removed extensive brush overgrowth which was covering historic graves, uncovered graves covered in grass and brush overgrowth. Worked on repairing and cleaning historic statues and markers. We had enough money to hire a contract Administrator to handle burial needs and all inquiries to Oakland Cemetery. Volunteers with the Dallas Genealogy Society and others and the Administrator are going to the Dallas Public Library each Thursday to clean, sort and organize all of Oakland Cemetery's documents going back to 1892. We will determine what items, like bank statements and financials, must be digitized and put on the Dallas Genealogy Society website that will be accessible for everyone. We have an agreement with the City of Dallas Sanitation Department to conduct public tours at least twice a month at OC in exchange for a large dumpster we fill with leaves and branches that the City picks up for free. We are researching changing our tax exempt status from a 501c13 to a 501c3, as we are having difficulty getting foundations, such as the DAR which gives grants to historic cemeteries, to understand 501c13s and thus being denied grants to which we are entitled. We received our official historic cemetery status from the State of Texas and are working on our marker.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending September 30, 2025, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(13) cemetery company.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending September 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since August 1950.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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