Alabama Center of Military History
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582082521
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2568833737
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies & Historic Preservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $123,218
- Expenses
- $78,546
- Assets
- $184,286
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RANDALL WITHROW (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- RANDALL WITHROW (PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDE)
- CHRIS WHITEHEAD (2ND VICE PRE)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Alabama center of military history operates the us veterans memorial museum, open to the public wednesday - saturday to honor all veterans of the us armed forces and contains exhibits from the revolutionary war to today. The museum normally has over 10,000 visitors, many school groups and reunions annually.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Alabama center of military history operates the us veterans memorial museum, open to the public wednesday-saturday to honor all veterans of the us armed forces and contains exhibits from the revolutionary war to today. The museum normally has over 10,000 visitors, many school groups and reunions annually.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.35; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $79K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.