Bingham County Historical Society

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
820391780
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Blackfoot, ID, USA
Phone
2087859906
Rating
49
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$51,549
Expenses
$90,257
Assets
$182,172

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Heather McPhie (Exective Director)
  • Kay Sorensen (Museum Curator)
  • Leslie Mickelsen (County Historian)

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

The mission of the Society is to acquire and preserve historical objects, documents photographs, and other items relating to Bingham County and Eastern Idaho, for the dissemination of historical information and facts through meetings, programs, trips, and any other means deemed suitable.

What it reported doing in 2025

Publish quarterly newletter, books, quarterly educationalpublic meetings to educate the public

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 88% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 17.5%; rating input score 18
  • Program expense ratio: 10%; rating input score 10

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: -75.1%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.02; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -110.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -19.2% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 17.5% of revenue deployed · 10% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $9K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 18/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 10/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.