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        <ExplanationTxt>WE GAVE A GRANT OF $700 TO DORCHESTER DISSTRICT #2 FOUNDATION TO PURCHASE CARVING INSTRUMENTS FOR THEIR WOOD SCULPTING CLASS. WE MADE PARTIAL PAYMENTS TO JACK HILL OF $35,000 TOWARD PURCHASE OF "JUST CHILLIN'".</ExplanationTxt>
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      <ExplanationTxt>"Short Form return of organization exempt from income tax - 990-EZ 2022 was filed on 10 November 2023; received by you 27 November 2023. You returned the form 26 December (mailed 28 December 2023 ) stating non compliance with "Taxpayer First Act" - not electronically filed. I can only plead that the form on the US GOV forms list looked appropriate to our organization and by our institutional history was "the way it's always been done". I can't blame my error on anyone else but it was not helpful that our Executive Director and Treasurer both retired in 2021. If not already obvious, this is my first time preparing a tax form in forty years. REFERENCE: 0422862358 Dec 26,2023 LTR 2695C 1 57-1072407 202212 67 00021303 BODC: TE</ExplanationTxt>
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