American Women's Heritage Society Inc

Overview

Mission

The american women's heritage society (awhs) was founded to maintain and restore belmont mansion, an eighteenth century house in fairmount park in philadelphia, pa. The society is the first organization to operate belmont mansion primarily as an historic site. And the society is the only african-american women's organization to administer a historic mansion in fairmount park.the awhs is a non-profit historic preservation organization that raises funds from membership fees, admissions, rentals, grants and donations. Through the society, belmont mansion has become an interpretive and educational center for american history and culture. The society seeks to expose the community to the fine arts (literature, art, dance and music), as well as build bridges of communication and interaction among various ethnic communities in philadelphia. Belmont mansion also serves as a site for wedding receptions, private parties, meetings of civic and cultural organizations, and tours for visitors.

Operating model

Revenue model

Earned-program. 91% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 40
• Transparency & Controls: 90
• Accountability: 69
• Sustainability: 35
• Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 38.7% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $26K · 7 people listed
• Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
• Schedules: 3 filed schedules
• Filing history: 2 filing years from 2013 to 2014
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
• 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
• Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
• High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
• High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
• High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
• High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
• Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
• High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 31/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.