Argus Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920809786
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Ann Arbor, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2063493977
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $65,471
- Expenses
- $22,626
- Assets
- $136,179
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Robert Kelly (President/Treasurer)
- Alexander Rawles (Vice President)
- AshleyWimbrough (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Robert Kelly (President/Treasurer)
- Alexander Rawles (Vice President)
- Nancy Bryk (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Operate a Museum
What it reported doing in 2025
History interpretation through events, open to the public, six events per year, 350 people
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 87% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. 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: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.7%; rating input score 21
- Program expense ratio: 40.9%; rating input score 41
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 65.4%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.02; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 49.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 61.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.7% of revenue deployed · 40.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 21/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.