Afton Historical Society Press
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411753947
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Edina, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6514368443
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,444
- Expenses
- $76,345
- Assets
- $113,038
- Liabilities
- $19,312
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY R LINDBERG (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JOSHUA WEBER (BOOKEEPER): $16,750 total reported compensation
- GARY R LINDBERG (CEO): $10,000 total reported compensation
- IAN G LEASK (Director): $10,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Afton historical society press is dedicated to the purposes of publishing and distributiong educational works on Minnesota's cultural heritage to colleges, public libraries, museums, historical societies and the general public.
What it reported doing in 2025
The afton historical society press publishes regional books that explore and celebrate minneosta's culture and history. All of our books, including our books for young people, adhere to high standards of scholarship, literary value, design and promotion. We seek out the largest possible local, national and international audiences for our books through wholesale and retail outlets. We provide books and curiculum packages free-of-charge to schools and public libraries through donor programs including our book-for-schools program. We also promote and extend the reach of our publications with the authors.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 63.1%; rating input score 63
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.9%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 48.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.3% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -12.9% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.3% of revenue deployed · 63.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 19 of 20 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.