Americana Festival Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310976649
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Dayton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 9374335898
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Commemorative Events
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $192,437
- Expenses
- $159,301
- Assets
- $184,108
- Liabilities
- $504
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK METZGER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVE WENSTRUP (TRUSTEE)
- JON WESNEY (CHAIRMAN)
- PATRICK SWAN (TRUSTEE)
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
To promote the social welfare of the centerville-Washington township area by fostering community spirit and neighborly goodwill and encourage the residents of the area to participate in the community activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Parade and street fair conducted all day on july 4th with various community based organizations participating. About 75,000 people attended.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.7%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 99.4%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.7% of revenue deployed · 99.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $158K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.