Buellton Historical Society
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 770555231
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2022
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Buellton, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8056888437
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Assets
- $10,752
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- STEVE SAWIN (President)
People named in this filing
- STEVE SAWIN (President)
- PATTY FITZGERALD (Sec/Treas.)
- KEN HARWOOD (Director)
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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To protect, preserve, and display historical memorabilia pertaining to the buellton community. Encourage the buellton community to contribute to the preservation of its history.
What it reported doing in 2022
Protect, preserve, and display historical memorabilia. Maintain a display in a local tourist-favorite restaurant. Provide means whereby copies of historical documents can be obtained.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -42.8% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -82.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 2 of 2 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.