Bess Streeter Aldrich Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470608589
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Elmwood, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4029943855
- Rating
- 47
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $171,257
- Expenses
- $125,689
- Assets
- $399,055
- Liabilities
- $34,040
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KURK SHRADER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BONNIE DRAKE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KURK SHRADER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- BONNIE DRAKE (PRESIDENT)
- BRENDA VOGT (TREASURER)
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 life and works of author bess streeter aldrich to operate a museum and house to sponsor educational programs
What it reported doing in 2025
House and museum tours & writing and art camps1228 paid visitorsexpense of utilities and maintenance
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% 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
MIXED - 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: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.4%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 12
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.6%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.17; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 10.4% of revenue deployed · 12.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $15K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 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 10/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.