American Museum of Magic Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
383331173
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2011
Location
Marshall, MI, USA
Phone
2697817570
Rating
36
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$52,639
Expenses
$58,811
Assets
$262,463
Liabilities
$727

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JANIA TAYLOR (BOARD PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JANIA TAYLOR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID SCHWANINGER (VICE CHAIR)
  • MARSHA LAMBERT (SECRETARY)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The musem holds the largest public collection of american magic artifiacts and archival collections in the united states. It was founded in 1978. It was established as a not-for-profit museum in 1995. The board is dedicated to ensuring the museum flourishes and has recruited trustees from across the region to create a working board with professional skills. The museums mission is to inspire and delight the public with the wonder of magic, and to document and celebrate the contributions and

What it reported doing in 2024

Museum hosted its annual magic camps.these camps provide introductory magic lessons tonew campers as well as provide more advanced lessons to returning campers

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 0
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0.3%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.7%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.46; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -22% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -4.7% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0.3% of revenue deployed · 0.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $150 in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.