Barns of Rose Hill
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270103521
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Berryville, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5409552004
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts, Cultural Organizations - Multipurpose
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $697,880
- Expenses
- $446,690
- Assets
- $2,440,100
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
People named in this filing
- BRUCE RUSCIO (BOARD CHAIR)
- KELLI PATTERSON (VICE CHAIR/T)
- DAVID CONRAD (VICE CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To enrich lives through the arts, education, and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the barns of rose hill, a nonprofit organization serving clarke county and the northern shenandoah valley region, provided 140 programs, including concerts, classes, film screenings, and free community events, in alignment with its mission to enrich lives through the arts, education, and community. The organization also maintains year-round public access to rotating art exhibitions and visitor services. Total program attendance during the year was approximately 7,500. The galleries and visitor center were open 780 hours and received approximately 750 visitors. Programming serves area residents and the broader surrounding region; approximately 26% of visitors were identified as clarke county residents based on available records. The barns of rose hill regularly collaborates with local nonprofit and municipal partners to support programming and community engagement. The organization is also supported by volunteers who assist with program operations, exhibitions, fundraising events, and governance. In 2025, 57 volunteers contributed approximately 1,010 hours of service, and the volunteer board of directors contributed approximately 800 additional hours toward governance and oversight.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.8%; rating input score 49
- Program expense ratio: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.46; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.8% of revenue deployed · 67.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $300K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 49/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.